06.06.2013 Columns Column: A very unofficial history of Greenport It was love at first sight. Well, actually, second sight, because I first set eyes on Greenport in the late ’60s, when I served as a summertime mate on...
04.28.2013 Columns Column: Wow, what a newsman we have My mother, borrowing some folk wisdom from the Disney film “Bambi,” routinely told me when I was a lad that if I couldn’t say anything nice, then I shouldn’t say...
12.22.2012 Columns Column: Screw 2nd amendment, sanity time “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” — Second...
05.31.2012 Columns Column: It’s about free speech, not just money It could well have been a riff from the late, great Gilda Radner’s “Saturday Night Live” days and her classic character Roseanne Roseannadanna. Only this time it wasn’t Mr....
05.03.2012 Columns Column: Pass the budget, don’t hurt the kids Suffolk Times editor Tim Kelly jokingly refers to it as “The People’s Republic of Oysterponds.” His point, I think, is that the residents of Orient, in particular, and East...
03.29.2012 Columns Column: President Romney? Heaven help us I have decided to get my Obama birth certificate T-shirt back out of the drawer, where it has been tucked away for the last year or so, and start...
02.15.2012 Columns Column: Final chapter on Robert Waterhouse? If things go as planned Wednesday night, this is the last column I will ever write about Robert Waterhouse. I say that mostly for those readers who believe The...
05.19.2011 Columns Column: Remembering the genius of Bob Berks I sometimes get the feeling that I’ve written the same column before — it’s a combination of advanced age and the act of having penned about a thousand of...
10.13.2010 News The Observer: Who’s keeping an eye on the park? I love Mitchell Park, I really do. It is the centerpiece of the Village of Greenport. Its heart and soul. And at no time was this more self-apparent than...
