12.28.2016 Columns Guest Spot: Big win on farmland for voters, taxpayers Christmas came early for Suffolk County voters in the form of a New York State Supreme Court decision on preserving farmland.
07.05.2016 Letters Featured Letter: Trees over solar Cutting down forests for solar is plain and simply wrong. It’s pitting the environment against the environment for no reason.
08.27.2015 Opinion Guest Spot: Finding a new home for Kent Animal Shelter is a win-win The conflict over the expansion of Kent Animal Shelter in the Core Preservation Area of the Pine Barrens is getting personal. What’s worse, it’s unnecessary.
04.02.2015 Letters Featured Letter: We can protect both land and water To the editor: Gail Wickham’s letter misrepresents three matters pertaining to the amendment of the Community Preservation Fund, proposed by Assemblyman Fred Thiele and State Senator Kenneth LaValle.
03.19.2015 Columns Amper: Expand preservation fund to tackle water quality On April 2, East Enders will celebrate an important milestone: The Community Preservation Fund will have generated over $1 billion and preserved more than 10,000 acres of open space...
06.27.2013 Columns Guest Column: Let’s keep on saving Suffolk’s open space Two weeks ago, freshman Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski introduced legislation to alter Suffolk’s Drinking Water Protection Program to favor farmland preservation over open space. It was a dumb-headed...
04.18.2013 Letters Letter: Troubling elements in Scouts controversy There are two troubling elements in the controversy of the proposed training course proposed for the Boy Scouts of America property in Baiting Hollow. The project would be built...
10.12.2012 Columns Equal Time: Enough with scapegoating the state DEC It was the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan who famously said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” The same is true for...
