09.20.2015 Columns Grossman Column: Time to legislate against Lyme disease There’s a renewed push in the U.S. Congress for legislation to strengthen the federal government’s activities on Lyme disease, endemic on the North Fork, Shelter Island and all over...
07.06.2015 Columns Grossman Column: Hot enough for you? Global warming is here The Pacific island nation of Kiribati has become the first country in the world to declare that climate change is rendering it uninhabitable. Unfamiliar with the name? Try Gilbert...
04.20.2015 Opinion Grossman Column: A new watchdog for East End water The new Sag Harbor-based group, Defend H20, has emerged as a fearless environmental organization with a broad agenda. It not only has the toughness to engage in battles against...
03.16.2015 Opinion Grossman: A paramedic’s crusade against tailgating Ben Jones has for decades been on a crusade to get action on tailgating. Mr. Jones, a paramedic on Shelter Island — and at 92 the oldest paramedic in...
03.02.2015 Columns Grossman Column: Zeldin won’t back down from conflict with ISIS In Lee Zeldin, Eastern Long Island has sent to Congress someone who in just two months in office has become a national figure taking on radical Islam. The rapid...
11.23.2014 Columns Suffolk Closeup: A post-mortem for Dems This space was devoted last week to the negative advertising, the “attack ads” or election by character assassination, which dominated the 2014 election in Suffolk County, the state and...
10.14.2014 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Cash, credit prices and a gas bill defeated I should have been suspicious last month driving into a gas station off the Long Island Expressway to fill up. I’d written a column in May about the effort...
06.10.2014 Columns Suffolk Closeup: New action on Island’s water Legislation seeking to save Long Island’s threatened waters was introduced last week. And not a moment too soon, with Shelter Island, along with many other Suffolk communities, becoming suddenly...