06.03.2017 Columns Column: Meet Valerie Smith, candidate and ‘pioneer’ One might think that by May 2017 no audio recording of a political candidate could be outrageous enough to leave me stunned.
01.08.2017 Columns Column: My kid wants just one thing — every toy My son is spoiled. I talked a big game before he was born. “Any kid of mine better get used to hearing the word no,” I’d say. “I’m going...
03.15.2016 Sports Column: Finally, a college sports team to call our own Watching the Stony Brook men’s basketball team fall behind by double digits early in the second half of the America East championship game Saturday, I felt something I haven’t...
02.07.2016 Columns Column: A later school start time makes a lot of sense My mornings start the same way each day. Thump. Thump. Mama. Dada. Mama. Dada. (Repeat, repeat, repeat …) This happens sometime between 4:45 and 6:45 a.m., pretty much without...
11.15.2014 Columns Parpan Column: Suffolk Dems looking mighty blue these days When I began reporting on Suffolk County politics back in February 2006, the Democratic party here was on the rise. In Brookhaven Town, where I was assigned at the...
