12.12.2013 Columns Column: Long Island radio the way it oughta sound Personality. There used to be a lot of it in local radio. It wasn’t just about the music, but the jocks, the people between the tracks. They shopped at the...
12.05.2013 Columns Column: Parents are the key in Common Core fight Our local teachers and administrators are sounding an alarm. They’re the “canaries in the coal mine,” says Terry Kalb, a recently retired Eastern Suffolk BOCES special education teacher. And...
11.24.2013 Columns Column: Science Center is a place that ‘matters’ I couldn’t believe 60 first-graders could stay so captivated for so long. Every kid’s eyes were glued to the center of the room, heads tilted, little mouths agape. They...
11.11.2013 Columns Column: Honoring a family hero this Veterans Day When I was a boy and my grandmother was still alive, I can recall how no one in my family was allowed to play “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”...
10.05.2013 Columns Column: A mad dash before life-altering deadline My wife and I entertain a lot. We have a good house for visitors. It’s got an open floor plan, unfinished basement replete with table games and, during the...
09.28.2013 Business Column: Rediscovering our past in Wading River I set out to write about my vision for Wading River’s historic hamlet center, believing it has the potential to become the “hippie capital” of Long Island’s North Shore....
08.16.2013 Columns Column: Numbers-driven Common Core initiative ignores life’s realities Here’s a not-so-bold prediction on an uncertain future. State officials are going to have to backtrack mightily on the Common Core State Standards now being used in public schools...
07.21.2013 Columns Column: Attention shoppers, get it together Of all the topics I’ve covered in this space, some serious, others not so much, I think I received the most reader responses from a 2011 column about bad...