07.15.2023 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Hurtling toward disaster, eyes wide open The lead story this spring in Newsday brought dismal information about the impact of climate change on this area. Starting on the newspaper’s front page and running for three...
07.02.2023 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Sales tax increase floated for sewers A referendum on the November election ballot approving a Suffolk charter law increasing the sales tax in the county by 1/8 of a percent for “water quality improvement projects”...
09.30.2022 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Putting on armor makes us vulnerable “The water is coming — there’s no longer much doubt about that,” began an article in The Washington Post this month. A just-issued analysis by Climate Central, a Princeton,...
11.29.2021 Columns Suffolk Closeup: A stupid ‘solution’ to beach erosion With the Fire Island to Montauk Point Project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to be restarted in 2023 — what Kevin McAllister, president of Defend H20, describes...
08.17.2020 Columns Suffolk Closeup: On the beach “Incrementally we are walling off the coast with bulkheads and rock revetments,” says Kevin McAllister of this area’s shoreline picture. This “prevents nature from maintaining a coastline that can...
