10.22.2023 Columns DEE-bate! Codger feels apologetic for having urged people to attend last month’s meeting to discuss the current draft of the Comprehensive Plan, an event which turned out as unsatisfying as...
09.18.2023 Columns Codger’s column: Comprehensible? Finally, Codger sat down, swept the crumbs off his desk and read the entire Shelter Island Comprehensive Plan Update, which bills itself as a “preliminary draft for informational purposes...
08.22.2023 Columns Codger’s Column: A welcome home It took Codger decades to realize that even with a home on Shelter Island he needed a vacation. How easy it once was, he says, to imagine the ferry...
07.16.2023 Columns Codger’s Column: The Toy Department When Codger was 19 years old, he answered a classified ad in the New York Times for editorial assistant. He needed a summer job. The job turned out to...
06.19.2023 Columns Codger’s Column: Us vs. Them After “transparency,” a term that has been carefully muddied on the Island, the go-to political word is “divisiveness,” which seems to be a way of accusing someone with strong...