Op-Ed: Workers Need Mental Health Support
Darren D. Moore, a licensed marriage and family therapist, writes that employers must help workers with mental health issues. Read More …
Category: Opinion
Long Island, NY, opinion in Dix Hills, Huntington, Melville, Northport.
Op-Ed: Future With Electric Vehicles Is on Its Way
“The great American road trip is going to be fully electrified,” declared President Biden in a speech at the Detroit Auto Show recently. His administration’s aim, he said, is to have half the vehicles sold in the United States by 2030—that’s less than eight years Read More …
Op-Ed: Juul Targeting of Young People Remains Infuriating
It remains infuriating that any industry, such as the vaping giant JUUL, would so brazenly target our youth and put profit before public health and common decency, Nassau Legislator Arnold W. Drucker writes. Read More …
Opinion: Urge Town Board to Vote NO to Excessive Affordable Housing Fees
Huntington Councilwoman Joan Cergol wants her colleagues to reject a plan to quadruple administrative fees paid to the town’s Community Development Agency by the owners or tenants of affordable units upon their resale or re-lease. Read More …
Opinion: Why Did 2 Democrats Help Republicans Kill Public Campaign Financing?
Shoshana Hershkowitz, founder of Suffolk Progressives, asks why two Democrats helped Republicans kill a campaign public financing plan. Read More …
Op Ed: Privacy at the Root of Court Ruling
Every semester in my Investigative Reporting class, I show Edward R. Murrow’s famed TV documentary about the plight of migrant farm workers titled “Harvest of Shame.” At the start of it, a Black farm worker in the field is interviewed and is asked how much Read More …
Essay: Gun Violence Is a Public Health Emergency for Our Children
It was the end of the work day when the news from Uvalde began to flash across our phones. Like pediatricians across the country my eyes welled up with tears. These were tears not only of sadness for these young children, not only of horror Read More …
Op-Ed: Climate Change Report Underscores Urgency to Act
Long Island—this island jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean—is among the most vulnerable places in the United States to be impacted by rising sea levels caused by climate change. As a recent U.S. government multi-agency report states: “Sea level rise will create a profound shift Read More …
Op-Ed: Putin Must Be Stopped
In addition to being on Long Island all my working life as a journalist and later a journalism professor, too, I have spent considerable time in Russia. But as Vladimir Putin grabbed more and more power and seized dictatorial rule, I wouldn’t go back there Read More …
Op-Ed: Redistricting to the Extreme
The plan by the Democratic majorities in the New York State Legislature for redistricting Congressional Districts, including those on Long Island, is an extreme case of gerrymandering. It illustrates what that word is about. The “gerry” is for Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry and how redistricting Read More …