03.08.2012 Columns Guest Column: Wading River follies aren’t helping anyone Aeschylus said, “In war, the first casualty is truth.” In the battle about overdevelopment in Wading River, more than a thousand residents have turned out at community meetings; sent...
02.02.2012 Columns Guest Column: This time, we’re going to fight for sick kids As the mother of Caroline Serva, I would like to answer the question that was posed on the cover of the Jan. 26 News-Review: “Is there hope for these...
11.10.2011 Columns Guest Column: Don’t disparage the Wall Street occupiers It was, admittedly, a clever play on words. “Occupy Wall Street animals go wild …ZOO-COTTI!” trumpeted the cover headline of last Friday’s New York Post. The headline referenced a...
05.05.2011 Opinion Guest Spot: Why a school bond is so hard to swallow The Riverhead school board last month adopted its proposed budget for the 2011-12 school year. As in many other districts, we were told this is the lowest budget-to-budget increase...
11.22.2010 Opinion Equal Time: Walter got his numbers wrong There were statements that appeared in a News-Review article last week, “Cost to shift on big parties,” that invite scrutiny. It would be too much to comment on all...
11.09.2010 Columns Guest Column: Liberal bias? It just comes natural BY BRIAN HARMON Conservatism. Liberalism. Journalism. Two of these isms go hand in hand — but their relationship has hardly spelled doom for the other ism. American journalism, a...
10.27.2010 Opinion The fight to reduce the ‘cost of government’ Our town is in bad financial shape. I didn’t cause the problem. In fact, the day I took office I warned that our tax rate was about to soar...
10.12.2010 Uncategorized Guest Column: Why free speech is no longer free Did you know that corporations can now legally make unlimited anonymous political contributions? That became true last January when the Citizens United v. The Federal Elections Commission case was...