11.22.2020 Columns Column: What’s missed and what’s remembered I won’t miss the turkey. The dressing, the mashed and gravy and the green beans with those canned fried onion rings? You better believe I’ll miss those. And the...
11.15.2020 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Election post mortem Despite Democratic Party enrollment gains in Suffolk County — and Democrats now having an edge in enrollment here — many Republican candidates did well in last week’s election in...
11.13.2020 Around the Island Gimme Shelter: Are you superstitious? This column appeared in a slightly different form on January 13, 2017. Looking at the calendar today, it’s important to remember some old common sense: Being superstitious brings bad...
11.08.2020 Columns Gimme Shelter: Telling time in November Passing a green field of turf gleaming in a gray day, I saw hundreds of sea gulls standing, beaks to the wind. One raised its head to let out...
11.07.2020 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Election post mortem in the county Despite Democratic Party enrollment gains in Suffolk County — and Democrats now having an edge in enrollment here — many Republican candidates did well in last week’s election in...
11.06.2020 Columns Column: Confessions of a political junkie Is there anyone out there who hasn’t developed a personal relationship with MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki? He and his counterparts on major channels have moved into our homes and our...
11.05.2020 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter Editorials: Democracy wins One campaign said that democracy was on the ballot, the other campaign, looking at pre-election polls, forecast that its opponent was going to rig the election. Democracy was on...
11.05.2020 Letters Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Oct: 29 -Nov. 4 From the supervisor To the Editor: I’m writing this before Election Day. I’ve often thought of putting my thoughts on paper, but have resisted. Today, while driving home, I...
11.01.2020 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Move to crack down on ‘risky’ cyclists “Local Law to Prevent Reckless Biking in Suffolk County.” That’s the title of a proposed law now before the Suffolk County Legislature. Suffolk is not alone in this area...
10.29.2020 Letters Reporter Letters to the Editor for the week, Oct. 22-29 Don’t cut Historical Society’s funding To the Editor: The Shelter Island Historical Society is facing a needless financial crisis. For over a decade it has received a $15,000 grant...
