NPR friends who spell me, but I cannot spell:
Meghna Charkrabarti, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, Doualy Xaykaothao, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, Lakshmi Singh, Yuki Noguchi, Sylvia Poggioli, Shankar Vedantam, Rhitu Chatterjee, Mandalit del Barco, Camila Domonoske, Hari Kondabolu, Michaeleen Doucleff, Monika Evstatieva, Nell Greenfieldboyce, Pien Huang, Danielle Kurtzleben, Shereen Marisol Meraji, Negin Farsad, Delmonico Montanaro, Jad Abumrad, Peter Overby, Alina Selyukh, Dina Temple-Raston, Anastasia Tsioulcas, Hansi Lo Wang, David Welna, Eric Westervelt, John Ydstie, Manoush Zomorodi, Kai Ryssdal, Audie Cornish, David Folkenflik, Neda Ulaby, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro — and ol’ Wade Goodwyn, “with a voice like warm butter melting over barbecued sweet corn.”
Bruce Buschel
Bridgehampton
Shut Him UpFolks: it is time to take Michael Daly at his word(s), unpleasant as that may be. First: glide by his smarmy greeting card calls for “love.” His own words reveal him, above all, and consistently, a purveyor of hate and...
Suffering in SilenceWhen our world gets out of balance, we lose our comfort and security. Too much or too little of anything spikes our fear, and we lose our sense of peace. Those who have what they want and need are comfortable....
Advocate & Adjudicate?The previous administration of [Supervisor Jay] Schneiderman and current board member Tommy John Schiavoni did not give high priority to monitoring appointed public officials for ethical lapses in their private life activities. This laissez-faire policy towards ethics enforcement appears to...
Soil Is CallingIn a book titled “In Old Southampton,” Abigail Halsey reminds us that in the early days of Southampton, “every man was a farmer and a fisherman.” But those days are long gone and most people, today, have no connection to...
A Web of InterestsKudos to Craig Catalanotto [“What Are We Doing?” Letters, April 18] and Barbara Ring [“Tangled Web” Letters, April 18] for their letters to the editor shining a light on the web of special interests, conflicts of interest and misinformation that...
Dates of InfamySeptember 11 and October 7, similar dates of infamy for strong allies with similarly divergent reactions. Now gathered mobs of protesters are cheering on those who cry “Death to America” and call for the complete annihilation and genocide of the...
Your VoiceOn June 25, registered Democrats will go to the ballot box to determine who will represent their ticket for New York’s 1st Congressional District. Although CD1 has recently been held by Republicans, both parties have assumed leadership over the years....
Master ClassI thank Barbara Ring for aptly proving my point. In response to my letter [“An Alliance,” Letters, April 11], which decried the state of civic public discourse in Hampton Bays as being overtaken by misinformation, fear-mongering and conspiracy peddling, Ring...
