08.22.2025 Editorials Editorial: Four-year terms for county legislators Two-year terms? Four-year terms? Term limits? No term limits? Clearly, various legislative bodies have reached different conclusions about what works best. Suffolk County legislators are currently elected for two-year...
08.15.2025 Editorials Editorial: What the record will show “Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.” So said Abraham Lincoln, and the sad truth is that we often forget it until forced to confront it. History, as manifested by...
08.10.2025 Editorials Editorial: Getting involved A recent report by a Suffolk County task force on “coastal resilience” warned, yet again, that our precious land resources are in danger from rising tides. It estimated that...
08.03.2025 Editorials Editorial: Midsummer dreaming The Dog Days of Summer descended on us July 3 and will last the Biblical length of 40 days, or until Aug. 11. Why Dog Days? Some have said...
07.27.2025 Editorials Editorial: When leaders lead, there’s cause for applause “Government isn’t the solution to the problem, government is the problem.” So said President Ronald Reagan, a man who could always break serious issues down to a pithy phrase that resonated...
07.20.2025 Opinion Editorial: A note from our publisher The beginnings of the Times Review Media Group reaches back to 1857, when the North Fork was a very different kind of place. That year, The Suffolk Times was...
07.20.2025 Editorials Editorial: The nuclear choice No one is pleased with the high cost of electricity in New York State, but why reject alternative energy solutions that pose none of the threats nuclear energy poses?...
07.13.2025 Editorials Editorial: Ignoring the facts The United States has taken a U-turn away from producing clean, sustainable energy and back to a near-total focus on burning fossil fuels. The vehicle for this return to...
07.04.2025 Editorials Editorial: Independence Day 2025 On July 4, 1986, President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation: “All through our history, our presidents and leaders have spoken of national unity and warned us that the real...
06.29.2025 Editorials Editorial: Those damn kids Young people are materialistic, in love with luxury, have atrocious manners, no respect for others, are self-absorbed and obsessed with chatter. The mini-rant above, was an opinion Socrates had...
06.22.2025 Editorials Editorial: Juneteenth reminds us that freedom is everything On June 19, 1865, Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, and informed its Black residents that they were a free people. The 246 years of slavery that began in Virginia...
06.15.2025 Editorials Editorial: Father’s Day 2025 In America, many families have, over several generations, seen a sea of change in how masculinity is defined. The changes in the way fathers have taken active roles in...
06.08.2025 Editorials Editorial: Staying safe on the water in summer Along with this season of family, friends and fun come all the other things that make this time of year on the East End so memorable. And yet, with...
05.26.2025 Editorials Editorial: Our duty to remember Our editorial pages applauded President Donald Trump’s move, during his first term, to extricate U.S. Armed Forces from Afghanistan. And we applauded President Joe Biden for making the policy...
05.18.2025 Editorials Editorial: Support our schools and vote Next Tuesday, local voters will make decisions critical to the future of area schools by casting ballots on their respective districts’ 2025–2026 budgets. Over the years, we have consistently...
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