Op-Ed: Housing Issue Needs Solutions

The BANANAS crowd (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone) was out in full force at Town Hall in Huntington last week.  They have many perfectly valid concerns, but instead of seeking possible solutions to today’s problems, their only proposed answer is “stop it. Just stop Read More …

Op-Ed: Don’t Demonize Apartment Dwellers

This week, the Huntington Town Board called a public hearing on a proposed new code regulating accessory dwelling units- basement or garage apartments in lay terms. The town board must be considering this action because they see the same demographic and economic trends we all Read More …

Let’s Share Our Space With Wildlife

 As the warmer weather takes hold, the Town of Huntington comes alive with events, activities, and visitors.  Residents take advantage of everything – our hopping downtowns, our beaches, and our parks.  All creatures big and small “flock” to town to take advantage of all it Read More …

Op-Ed: How Hospitals Fared in State Budget

Suburban Hospital Alliance of NYS president/CEO Wendy Darwell looks at how hospitals fared in the final 2023 – 2024 state budget. From increased Medicaid rates to an absence of codified workforce flexibilities, the budget offers wins and losses. Read More …

Essay: Take Care of Your Skin as Summer Arrives

Dr. Raman Kevin Madan writes that there are easy ways to help prevent the likelihood of skin cancer by consistently protecting our skin from the sun’s harmful rays and seeing a dermatologist regularly to detect changes in our skin over time. Read More …

Op Ed: Affordable Housing at a Crisis Stage

What everyone agrees on is that we have an affordable housing crisis. It’s not simply a problem. It’s not just a situation. It’s a full-blown crisis impacting on many people. One window I have on it is as a professor looking at the faces and Read More …

Op-Ed: New Faces Coming to the Legislature

There will be new faces on the Suffolk County Legislature next year and, if he is elected in November, a familiar face, Steven Englebright of Setauket, who was a leading environmental champion on the county’s governing panel from 1983 until his election to the State Read More …

Op-Ed: Water Reuse Increasingly Important

“Water reuse has been increasingly recognized as an essential component in effective water resource management plans,” says the “Long Island Water Reuse Road Map & Action Plan” unveiled last week. “The United Nations formally acknowledged the importance of water reuse in 2017,” it adds. “The Read More …

Op-Ed: Dire Warning About Climate Change on Long Island

Long Island is ranked fourth for “highest chronic physical risk among the 100 most populous areas” in the United States for the impacts of climate change in a just-issued report of Moody’s Analytics. The Number One area threatened is San Francisco, then Cape Coral, Florida, Read More …