12.30.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Our columnist files an accident report Bang! There I was, stopped, sitting in a traffic jam on Route 58 in Riverhead two weeks ago, and bang! It felt like my Toyota Prius was collapsing. My...
12.21.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: ‘The rage of the age’ The Eugenics Record Office at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research facility in Suffolk County, was pivotal to the spread of eugenics through the United States and...
12.08.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup — A horrendous history In the northwest corner of Suffolk County is the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Its outrageous history is detailed in a forthcoming book, “Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics:...
11.24.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Lee Zeldin is no friend of the environment The views are certainly mixed, to put it mildly, about President-elect Donald Trump announcing last week that he would nominate Lee Zeldin, the former congressman from Suffolk County, to...
11.11.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Why Trump won The political campaign signs along Suffolk County roads declared: “Suffolk is Trump Country.” And, indeed in last week’s election, Suffolk was Trump country, as was much of the United...
