10.18.2021 Columns Guest Spot: What are ballot propositions all about? Don’t let the often-inscrutable ballot proposals dissuade you from deciding on them. And don’t approve any just because the wording seems sort of okay. The five proposals on the...
03.11.2018 Columns Guest Column: Serving in the Army alongside ‘The King’ For many years afterward, it would be one of my favorite gambits at cocktail parties and other venues of idle gossip. Whenever the conversation drifted into the area of...
09.01.2013 Columns Column: Let’s stop railing at Long Island Rail Road It’s a summer Friday afternoon and you’re stuck in traffic on the Long Island Expressway, headed from the city to the North Fork. If you’re traveling by bus for...
07.22.2012 Columns Guest Column: Our ignorance on issues is just dangerous If ignorance is bliss, then Americans must be blissful indeed these days. Because so many of us display an appalling (and alarming) ignorance — just confirmed by a respected...
07.14.2012 Columns Guest Column: North Fork is now a South Fork clone As occurs every time I head back to my North Fork home, Tim Kelly’s column on Boothbay Harbor brings back a flood of emotions not unlike those James Joyce...
07.08.2012 Columns Guest Column: The East End is truly the place to be A friend of ours recently mentioned that he expected old friends to visit Long Island this summer and wondered if we had any suggestions for things to do or...
05.12.2012 Columns Column: We can’t ignore kids and concussions A few weeks ago, my dad apologized for all the smoking he did in the house back when I was a kid. “We just didn’t realize,” he said as...
04.07.2012 Columns Column: Train moments that touch the heart The electrician and the sleepy attorney have commuted home on the train to the same station — probably for years — but I’m guessing they had hardly acknowledged one...
