06.09.2019 Columns Suffolk Close up: County GOP leader ready for battle The Cuban Revolution caused Jesus Garcia to flee Cuba to the United States. His son, Jesse Garcia, raised in Suffolk County and having spent his life here, was just...
12.22.2018 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Roadblocks to robocalls People in Suffolk County, indeed folks all over New York State and the United States, are besieged by robocalls.
11.11.2018 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Cleaning up corruption “We’ve had the governor’s right-hand man and the two former leaders of the legislature convicted of crimes,” said State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. (I-Sag Harbor) whose district includes...
09.29.2018 Columns Suffolk Closeup: The hoax master This is a change-of-pace column about one of the funniest people I’ve ever known, Alan Abel. “Alan Abel, Ace Hoaxer, Is (Really) Dead at 94,” was the headline last...
05.13.2018 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Banning bamboo This area “has been a hotbed of anti-bamboo sentiment going back several years,” declares the industry website “Landscape Management.”