09.08.2014 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Teachout speaks out Zephyr Teachout is challenging incumbent Andrew Cuomo in a primary this coming Tuesday to decide who will be the Democratic nominee for governor.
08.18.2014 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Drill, baby … spill? Despite the 2010 offshore oil drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, despite the U.S. suddenly becoming the top oil producer in the world and despite decades of opposition,...
07.29.2014 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Pick the Plum for power A group of Congressional representatives led by Tim Bishop of Southampton is calling on the federal government not to sell Plum Island, as it plans, but to put it...
07.23.2014 Columns Suffolk Closeup: DiNapoli draws a crowd on East End The only Long Islander running statewide on a major party ticket this year, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, a Democrat, was on the East End last week. It was an unusual...
07.14.2014 Columns Suffolk Closeup: GOP primary postmortems It was one bitter Republican primary battle between Lee Zeldin and George Demos ending last month.
05.20.2014 Opinion Karl Grossman column: Footing the beachfront folly bill Folly Beach. Yes, there really is such a place. It’s a living example of the folly of dumping sand on the shoreline in the expensive and fruitless attempt to...
10.19.2011 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Environmentalists call new bill a big step backward “It’s absolutely a nightmare,” says Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment. She was speaking about a bill that sailed quickly through the Suffolk Legislature recently...