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Greg BlassTo fight the heroin epidemic, we must get smarter about prescription opioids
Doctors and patients alike have to give this incredibly powerful agent all the skepticism, respect, and fear it deserves. Its thunderous impact on too many lives demands rethinking and action.
Suffolk Closeup A walk through Suffolk’s history with county historian Peter Fox Cohalan
county began as the East Riding of Yorkshire and, he said, “from there morphed into” Suffolk County in 1683, one of the 12 original counties in the Province of New York, and even after independence and the province becoming a state, Suffolk was “the only county never to be subdivided.”
Suffolk Closeup Is fall of Suffolk’s police chief just a harbinger of things to come?
Is ex-chief James Burke's indictment the tip of the iceberg — a fragment of a broader federal investigation into 'widespread corruption' in Suffolk County?
Greg Blass An ode to Abe: a president whose morality, statesmanship and tenacity truly made America great
"With malice toward none, with charity for all...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
Suffolk Closeup:County vector control division’s use of toxic methoprene is shameful
There is “damning evidence" of the toxicity of the chemical Suffolk County uses to kill mosquitoes. Yet a majority of the County Legislature votes each year to allow its continued use.
Suffolk Closeup:The story behind the East End’s 2-percent transfer tax
A look back on how one of the most successful land preservation programs in the U.S. took root.
When government forgets it is ‘of… by… and for the people,’ it goes underground
In too many instances, we are favored with furtive antics from some (certainly not all) in OUR government whom we have hired to serve and share with the public. At question is how to tackle what's increasingly clear: "We the People" are time and again, "outta the loop."
Column: Why we must remember King and embrace his values
As we strive for criminal justice and education reforms in New York State, as well as solutions to the widening opportunity gap between the wealthy and everyone else, it's important that we embrace his values and remember his legacy.
Karl Grossman: Poverty, though its face has changed, is pervasive in Suffolk
Wages have not kept up with the cost of housing and the overall cost of living in Suffolk, where more than 90,000 people live below the federal poverty level.
Suffolk Closeup: The price of oil and gas have little to do with supply and demand
Low prices at the pump are the result of cheap oil flooding the market. It's politically motivated and it's not going to last.
