04.14.2023 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Not a problem — a crisis What everyone — almost everyone — agrees on is that we have an affordable housing crisis. It’s not simply a problem. It’s not just a situation. It’s a full-blown...
01.01.2023 Columns Suffolk Closeup: A Ukrainian family finds refuge on the East End The year 2022 was overshadowed for me, and I’m sure many others in Suffolk and the United States — in fact the world — by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
12.10.2022 Columns Tangling with Robert Moses With Robert Moses having gotten me fired from my first job as a journalist after I wrote about a fierce assault on civil rights protesters by his security force...
11.28.2022 Columns Suffolk Closeup: New push for Long Island nuclear plants Suffolk County is nuclear-free. None of the seven to 11 nuclear power plants proposed for Suffolk became a reality after decades of intense grassroots and governmental opposition. A key...
11.20.2022 Columns Suffolk Closeup: When Nazis marched in the county With the opening of a play off-Broadway in Manhattan titled “Camp Siegfried,” what was once a major center for Nazis in the region in years before World War II...
