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Greg Blass: Why are we so broken?
Is the shrinking importance of spirituality and religion linked to modern society's deep cultural malaise?
From microbeads to methoprene, and being sandbagged by wrongheaded policy: 2015 in the county legislature
A look back at the accomplishments and failures of the Suffolk Legislature in 2015.
Suffolk Closeup: Let’s get serious about government corruption
Recent federal prosecutions of government officials are eye-opening and it seems like there's more to come.
Start of a new year provides us all the opportunity to hit the reset button
The dawn of a new year brings with it the irresistible urge to take stock and look ahead. Whether you call it a resolution or something else, chances are you're thinking about that fresh start and what you'll do — or not do in the year ahead.
Suffolk Closeup: Leave the swans alone
The stately swans that glide on the Peconic River in Riverhead might be birds of the past if the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation gets its way.
Here we go again: Caithness II and Iroquois pipeline are the next costly debacle for ratepayers and taxpayers
It's an all-too-familiar script, reminiscent of the Shoreham nuclear power plant, the Southwest Sewer District and multi-town garbage authority. They all have a lot in common, including the end result: Long Islanders will pay big time.
Suffolk expands smoking ban, and that’s a good thing
A bill on sent to the county executive by the Suffolk County Legislature would extend the county smoking ban to all common areas of multiple dwellings.
Suffolk Closeup: Enemies of renewable energy seek to protect their own profits
The electric utilities industry and their fossil-fuel backers are doing everything they can to stop the home solar energy insurgence because it cuts into their profits.
As a Health Republic subscriber after state directs ‘hold’ on payments, is my care covered or not?
“This is, quite honestly, a bowl of spaghetti that’s congealed and you just have to unwind it," State Senator Ken LaValle told me Friday.
Out of work after 26 years at the local grocery: inside view of A&P’s demise
An insider's view of the demise of A&P and Waldbaum's and the impacts of Key Food's takeover of the Mattituck store — from the vantage point of a 26-year employee.
