12.19.2023 Around the Island Gimme Shelter: What’s the good word? It’s time once again for Gimme Shelter to present our annual review of how the English language fared during the year that’s hurrying away from us, and the report...
01.02.2020 Columns Gimme Shelter: Word play in the world of 2019 With a look back at 2019 slipping over the horizon as a smoking pile of bad rubbish (good riddance), let’s turn our attention to the sunlit uplands of 2020...
02.24.2017 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial Boiling over “Threats.” “Collusion.” “Hate speech.” This is some of the language being used as the Town Board prepares to draft and vote on legislation to regualte homeowners who...