Suffolk Closeup Archives

11.12.2017 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: Refusing to be captured

Good for democracy. That’s the significance of the legislation authored by State Senator Kenneth LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) and Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. (I-Sag Harbor) signed into law last...

08.27.2017 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: Ending the scourge of Lyme disease

Want some good news? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last month a plan to expedite the approval process for a vaccine to ward off Lyme disease.

07.29.2017 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: Getting a little squirrelly

It was quite unlikely for me, a vegetarian for 50 years, to be out shopping the other day for a gun to shoot squirrels. But squirrels have been stripping...

07.16.2017 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: A green, and tasty, future for Long Island’s wine region

Long Island, with a centuries-long history of farming, has undergone an agricultural revolution in just a few decades, sparked in 1973 by a pair of pioneers in planting grapes...

07.09.2017 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: Looking for answers at Stony Brook University

What’s going on at Stony Brook University? The university has just suspended student admissions into its theater arts, comparative literature and cinema arts departments, part of a series of...

04.30.2017 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: Bad season ahead for Lyme disease

This could be a bad year for Suffolk County for Lyme disease — the malady that residents of the Island and the county were numbered among the earliest victims.

01.17.2017 Columns

Column: Free tuition—an old idea for a new age

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal last week for free tuition at SUNY and CUNY schools has roots going back nearly two centuries in this region, to 1847 and...

12.12.2016 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: Ruling against preserved farmland development is misguided

A local environmental organization has brought a lawsuit challenging the implementation of the Suffolk County Farmland Preservation Program, a visionary concept that has been the key to saving an...

12.04.2016 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: A familiar Long Island creature facing extinction

A world expert on horseshoe crabs is worried about their extinction after 455 million years of life on Earth — largely because the crab has become a delicacy in...

11.19.2016 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: Inside the county elections

The astonishing win of the U.S. presidency by Donald Trump on the Republican ticket has, to put it mildly, overshadowed all other political news out of the 2016 election.

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