03.08.2015 Columns Guest Column: Perpetual homelessness just won’t work East End towns and villages are now under political and media pressure to participate in Suffolk County’s sex offender monitoring program. This program is operated, under contract with the...
01.15.2015 Letters Featured Letter: Explain yourself Congressman Zeldin Bravo to the News-Review and Grant Parpan for his op/ed challenging Congressman Lee Zeldin for not immediately distancing himself from Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise. Mr. Scalise, the majority whip...
07.20.2014 Columns Guest spot: Columnist’s observations on Riverhead were off base I read with amazement the News-Review article about New Orleans columnist James Varney, who penned a column in his home paper about his negative experience after visiting Riverhead for...
06.02.2014 Letters Featured Letter: Free speech or hate speech? To the Editor: On a visit to my local post office this Saturday, I was shocked to be confronted by a disturbing display on the sidewalk in front of...
03.13.2014 Letters Featured letter: Suffolk County, the next Detroit To the editor: I am writing as a ‘Regular Joe’ taxpayer. I am just a middle class Suffolk County resident and taxpayer who is very troubled by the state...
02.28.2014 Opinion Guest: Two systems of justice at work in Suffolk County I agree with the recent News-Review editorial about the sentencing of a defendant who was driving under the influence when he struck cyclist Steven Kane, killing him.
01.26.2014 Columns Guest Column: For-profit sober home offers little public benefit I have worked in the mental health and substance abuse field for nonprofit agencies for over a decade. I read with great concern that the Riverhead Town Board is...
08.26.2013 Columns Guest Spot: Suffolk must reverse course on jail project When the plan to build a new Suffolk County county jail was first proposed about 10 years ago, the political and economic landscape in the county, as well as...