03.21.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Bail-reform battle My first beat as a reporter at the daily Long Island Press was covering cops-and-courts in Suffolk County. Back then, the bail issue was a vexing one in Suffolk,...
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”...
02.15.2022 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Salamanders loose in the County Fifteen years ago Suffolk County became the first county in New York State to enact a law to have reapportionment — the word redistricting is now favored — done...
12.12.2021 Columns Suffolk Closeup: GOP majority in the Legislature And finally, last week, came the news that the governing body of Suffolk County — the Suffolk County Legislature — will have a Republican majority as of the new...