04.22.2022 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Give peace a chance Is peace possible? Or is war a never-ending part of the human condition? For 20 years, I would regularly hop on the Hampton Jitney from Suffolk County to go...
09.05.2020 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Education in transition My new semester as a professor at SUNY/College at Old Westbury began this week and I’m teaching online. Most classes at the college are online other than those dependent...
12.17.2018 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Confronting Suffolk racism “How Do We Build A Just Long Island?” That important question is being asked at a series of five public forums organized by the organization Erase Racism.
02.04.2018 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Keeping the environment on page 1 I was thrilled to be informed last week that I’ve been honored as “Environmentalist of the Year” by the Long Island Sierra Club. As a professor of journalism at...
09.03.2017 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Partial eclipse of a life When the eclipse came last week, I feared my life was in eclipse. As the sky darkened, I felt my life darkening, too.
