07.12.2020 COVID-19 Editorial: A little common sense can prevent another surge of COVID-19 Across Long Island this past Fourth of July weekend, the beaches were packed. Saturday was hot and sunny and the beaches were a powerful attraction for people who have...
06.28.2020 Columns Guest Spot: For 111 days, we watched and admired I couldn’t hold back the tears last Friday as Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave his 111th — and final — daily press briefing during the COVID-19 crisis. He promised that...
06.27.2020 Editorials Editorial: Maskless and in a crowd is a bad look for Zeldin Few observers of American and New York politics could question the statement that 1st District Congressman Lee Zeldin is an ardent supporter of President Trump and all things Trump...
06.15.2020 Columns Guest Spot: After 50 years, where are my former students now? In 1970, I was a newly minted third-grade teacher in Bushwick, Brooklyn. My students were Black and Latinx, living in crowded apartments, relying on school meals to hold back...
06.14.2020 Editorials Editorial: This struggle will also be waged in our town On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others were arrested in Birmingham, Ala., on charges that their peaceful demonstration against police brutality and segregation violated a...
06.12.2020 Columns Guest Column: We missed an opportunity to govern better Let me first say that the last few months have been an extraordinary time of stress and sadness for all of us. This must be particularly true for our...
06.09.2020 Columns Equal Time: This went way beyond ‘poor judgment’ For the first 12 hours after reading Charles Sanders’ column, I felt deep anger. After that, my anger turned to sadness. Mr. Sanders is an elected official in Southold...
06.08.2020 Columns Guest Spot: Viewing America through a broader lens I’m inclined to believe that most of you reading this feel similarly to me. You are feeling a lot of mixed anger at what is occurring in our major...
06.06.2020 Opinion Southold Police Chief Flatley: ‘I cannot comprehend’ the death of George Floyd I, too, have witnessed this tragic and unnecessary death through the media, and like you, cannot comprehend why this has happened. No family should have to endure a loss...
06.06.2020 Editorials Editorial: What 8 minutes, 46 seconds have done to our country This past week has been America’s most unsettling and frightful in decades. FDR once said that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” But today, that...
