Opinion Archives - Shelter Island Reporter

04.10.2021 Editorial

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Ensuring a safe and prosperous future

Last week two enormous proposals were discussed that, if completed, would bring fundamental and profound changes to our region and all of Long Island. Simply put, these are the...

04.09.2021 Columns

Codger’s Column: Reboot

Codger is not entirely looking forward to his world returning to normal, not that he knows what normal means anymore. No masks mean he will have to start shaving...

04.07.2021 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: The road to clean, sustainable energy

“Long Island Solar Roadmap” is the title of a just-released report on how solar power has “the potential to generate more electricity than Long Island uses each year.” Shelter...

04.05.2021 Editorial

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Reawakening

During a time of sickness, hospitalizations, death and fear of illness, the long winter was like a gloomy house guest who had moved in for good. But spring is...

03.28.2021 Editorial

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Legislation that could kill the press

New York State Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D-Rockville Centre)and a host of colleagues, including Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-East Setauket), have introduced legislation that shifts the responsibility and costs of recycling...

03.28.2021 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: Pols jockey for position if Cuomo leaves

“A series of revelations … have damaged the New York governor beyond repair,” the headline in The New Republic magazine declared. The article below it started: “Andrew Cuomo is...

03.27.2021 Cartoons

Paw Print: The World of Peter Waldner —Blossoms

From the mind and pen of Peter Waldner, the Reporter’s award-winning cartoonist.

03.27.2021 Around the Island

Jenifer’s Journal: Uncommon ground

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.— George Orwell Truth has kind of gone the way of the steam iron, or phones with...

03.26.2021 Columns

Gimme Shelter: Just do it

Mary and I got our second shots two weeks ago. A happy time, but slightly anti-climactic compared to receiving the first dose, which was euphoric. “I want to live...

03.21.2021 Cartoons

Paw Print: The World of Peter Waldner — A long year.