By Lawrence LaRose

In a day and age when many people feel cell phone coverage is a constitutional right, I feel like a bit of an anomaly. Living in North Haven, I have adequate coverage at my house, though sometimes have a dropped call in other places of the village. Honestly, I don’t care. Many people [...]

By Jim Marquardt
We get up early and walk down 15th Street from the Double Tree Hotel on Rhode Island Avenue. It’s a beautiful, brisk morning, with the sun promising to make it warmer. Washington D.C. is packed with people going to Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity.” Ann and I figure we’d better have a [...]

By Robert Austin
On Friday afternoon April 16th at approximately 3 p.m., Joseph Benzola locked the door of Metaphysical Books and Tools for the last time and walked away. Forever. After eight years Joe could no longer afford to keep the store going. In the last few weeks of the store’s life Joe had put everything [...]

By Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr.
President, Stony Brook University

Faced with a 20% reduction, amounting to nearly $55 million, in New York State financial support over the past two years, I announced last week that Stony Brook University has been forced to make strategic cuts and streamline operations at its various locations. Notably, we are suspending [...]

By Kathleen Cunningham Faraone, President

Recent MTA tax assessment increases levied on East End Businesses, followed by an announcement that LIRR rail service in our region is likely to be reduced or even eliminated, has East End elected officials speaking out with one opposing voice. The time has come for us to leave the jurisdiction of [...]

by Mike Taibbi
14 February, Port au Prince– We heard there were protests downtown that were angry enough they could soon become riots, so we gathered our gear and headed that way. It had rained overnight, drenching downpours, the first rain in the month since the quake, but the morning skies were clearing.
When we got to [...]

By Susan Lamontagne
First there was a mediator, then a Fact Finder, and then a lawsuit. It seems as though nothing has been able to resolve the contract dispute between Sag Harbor’s teachers’ union and board of education. So what’s going on? As the parent of a first grader who has been thrilled with our teachers [...]

For the past several years, a vast portion of Suffolk County has been fortunate enough to have Tim Bishop as their Representative in the United States Congress. In addition to the tremendous amount of legislation that Congressman Bishop has sponsored — and successfully passed — for local causes on Long Island, our Democratic leader has [...]

by Penny Moser
They shot out of the carrier and into the wild like rockets. Four mallard ducks – that once had a feather duster as mom – now dabble and splash in a fine pond. Next year, they’ll pair up and make more ducks. They have no clue they owe their lives to the kindness [...]

 “The arts live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their nature and their shapes and their uses survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; and they outlive governments and creeds and societies; even the very civilizations that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance [...]