03.10.2023 Columns Column: Changes to baseball? Do not get me started We are living in truly dark times. Our institutions and traditions, handed down in America through the generations, are now under assault and seem unsteady, not able to withstand...
02.14.2023 Columns Column: On Valentine’s Day, love’s labor’s won Billie Holiday, in one of her more poignant lyrics, wrote that “love will make you drink and gamble, make you stay out all night long.” Which leads me to...
05.13.2022 Columns Column: 30 years later, it’s still a labor of love And there it is, 30 years in the books (or perhaps I should say in the papers). Thirty years is a long time, and yet it flew by in...
07.17.2021 Columns Column: Twelve minutes after takeoff, 230 lives were lost On the night of July 17, 1996, I was driving east on the Long Island Expressway, headed home to Cutchogue after a workday at Newsday. I passed over the...
10.09.2020 Columns Guest Spot: Every patriot should be anti-fascist The sitting president has made it clear that he will not commit to a peaceful transfer of power should the voters deny him a second term. New reporting from...
08.19.2020 Columns Column: With failed budget, students do pay the price I was going into my sixth-grade year the first time my school’s budget failed. It was rejected the following spring as well, meaning we ran on an austerity spending...
08.15.2020 Columns Column: Working with words requires write stuff The longer you do it, the better you get — and no matter how old you are, you can always get better. Never will you hit a ceiling where...
08.08.2019 Columns Column: Shark sightings are something to celebrate In recent weeks, quite a few sharks have made headlines around Long Island. First there was drone footage of sharks corralling and then feasting on a school of Atlantic...
