Cover Up In Plain SightIn Plain Sight For many months, lawmakers and journalists alike have pressed Governor Andrew Cuomo and his administration for more transparency on the number of COVID-related nursing homes deaths. He’s dodged. He’s lashed out. He waited for everyone to drop...
Shinnecock Are All-InWhen the Shinnecock Nation first floated the idea of operating a gaming facility two decades ago, the surrounding community exploded in dissent. Hateful rhetoric surrounded claims that such a facility would lead to a “nuclear explosion” of development, welcome “the...
Adding TeethKudos to State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. for taking on a long-overdue weakness in New York State’s laws requiring open government — a fight that benefits not just journalists but every single New Yorker, and not just those in...
A Teachable MomentOne of the missions of education is not just to teach young minds what to know, it’s to teach them how to think. The pandemic has thrown a monkey wrench into the classroom experience, but the region’s schools have done...
Party FirstIn 2020, two different groups named U.S. Representative Lee Zeldin, the Shirley Republican who represents the 1st District, one of the most bipartisan members of Congress. It was a designation he touted throughout his campaign. But to anyone who has...
Taking A RiskThe pandemic presents an unending series of dilemmas, one difficult choice after another, often with only bad options available. That’s true at many levels, but it’s never more true than at the school level. The choices made by school officials...
Paid Parking PromisesMany officials in Sag Harbor and East Hampton are portraying app-based paid parking programs proposed in their villages as an experiment of sorts, one that will allow them to take stock next fall and adjust accordingly — or get rid...
We’re WaitingOnly 79 percent of the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine that federal agencies have allocated to New York State have gotten into people’s arms. Many hospitals, pharmacies and local governments in receipt of doses have been painstakingly slow in...
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Staff Writer on Jan 19, 2021