07.10.2020 Columns Guest Column: The excuses don’t add up on bounties It has been reported that Russia paid bounties to the Taliban for the killing of American and coalition servicemen and women. Some have argued that the intelligence is not...
07.05.2020 Columns Column: The names that represent a story we can’t tell Across the country and across Long Island, America’s past is being examined, thought about in a very different light, criticized and, in some cases, kicked to the curb. Symbols...
06.28.2020 Columns Guest Spot: For 111 days, we watched and admired I couldn’t hold back the tears last Friday as Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave his 111th — and final — daily press briefing during the COVID-19 crisis. He promised that...
06.15.2020 Columns Guest Spot: After 50 years, where are my former students now? In 1970, I was a newly minted third-grade teacher in Bushwick, Brooklyn. My students were Black and Latinx, living in crowded apartments, relying on school meals to hold back...
05.30.2020 Columns Guest Spot: Let’s certify businesses as ‘COVID compliant’ Confusion and mixed messages abound concerning the full reopening of the economy. Is it happening too soon or not soon enough? Will I be safe dining out or shopping...
05.29.2020 Columns Guest Spot: Post-pandemic, let’s change the way we assess students for good It seems that our goals from before the pandemic are now a distant past, as teachers and leaders begin to tackle yet another challenge brought on by COVID-19 –...
05.28.2020 Columns Column: Drive-in movie night was a throwback at a time we needed it most My earliest movie-going memory is seeing “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” at the old Rocky Point Drive-In. I couldn’t tell you much about the experience, but to this day, I can’t...
05.24.2020 Columns Column: A special grave marker for ‘Pop-Pop’ Something was missing. When 10-year-old Namiah Santacroce looked down at the gravesite of his late great-grandfather, Tom Santacroce, there was no indication at all of who was buried there....
05.16.2020 Columns Guest Spot: Amid pandemic, another threat looms large for next generation “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” Well, young friends, you’re in trouble. No, it isn’t coronavirus that will make your...
05.02.2020 Columns Guest Column: The challenges of remote teaching during COVID-19 As a worker, are you essential, nonessential or front-line? COVID-19 has sorted us into categories we don’t usually contemplate. And what is essential work anyway? Excluding some people from...
04.19.2020 Columns Column: Social distancing back during an era of war The letters from a distant land began with the same salutation: “Dearest V —.” Wherever George Withers traveled across Europe during World War II as a soldier in the...
04.09.2020 Columns Busca como ayudar a quien lo necesita To read in English, click here Un tweet/trino del Dalai Lama me llamó la atención: “La naturaleza básica del ser humano, es la bondad. Esencialmente, las personas son amables,...
04.09.2020 Columns Guest Column: We must all hold onto our humanity Para leer en español, haga clic aquí A tweet from the Dalai Lama caught my attention: “A deep awareness of the goodness of human beings, that they are essentially...
04.04.2020 Columns Guest Column: Caring for yourself and each other in these stressful days As parents, we know we need to care for our children, but we also need to take care of ourselves. This is true under normal circumstances; it is even...
03.21.2020 Columns Column: In one moment, all can feel normal. The next, reality sets in A young couple smiled and laughed as they tossed a frisbee late Sunday afternoon at Greenport’s Mitchell Park. A pair of fluffy samoyed dogs hung their heads out the...
