09.08.2019 Columns Gimme Shelter: Rewards The weather was perfect, in the mid-70s, no humidity, light breezes and blue-black skies above the lights of Citi Field. I was where friends tell friends, “I’ll meet you...
01.27.2019 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Protecting farms, preserving open spaces The lawsuit brought by the Long Island Pine Barrens Society, which would have crippled Suffolk County’s visionary and nationally heralded Farmland Preservation Program, is no more.
07.23.2017 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Saving Suffolk’s farms “America has been losing over 40 acres of farmland every hour to development,” said the letter I recently received from the American Farmland Trust. “This land — the most...
10.28.2016 Editorial Reporter Endorsement: Ken LaValle for State Senate, Charles Schumer for U.S. Senate You don’t get to spend a lifetime in office without being an effective legislator. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson), senior member in the New York State Senate, was first elected...
09.18.2015 Columns Gimme Shelter: No time for nostalgia In those days, when the Mets were the dogs of the National League, we’d go to a ballgame with no planning. That’s impossible today, not only because the Mets...