12.18.2021 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Power plays The Long Island Power Authority board of trustees voted 8-to-1 last week for a new contract with PSEG to operate this area’s electric grid. However, that could be superseded...
02.23.2019 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Disaster guaranteed — off-shore drilling It’s been decades since a fisherman told me about seeing a ship east of Montauk similar to those he had seen searching for oil in the Gulf of Mexico...
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.
12.22.2018 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Roadblocks to robocalls People in Suffolk County, indeed folks all over New York State and the United States, are besieged by robocalls.
11.11.2018 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Cleaning up corruption “We’ve had the governor’s right-hand man and the two former leaders of the legislature convicted of crimes,” said State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. (I-Sag Harbor) whose district includes...