Op-Ed: Do More To Prevent Youth Vaping
Dr. Eve Krief writes that preventing initiation of vaping in the first place is critical to preventing addiction to nicotine and a snowball effect toward the use of other substances. Read More …
Category: Opinion
Long Island, NY, opinion in Dix Hills, Huntington, Melville, Northport.
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 …
Op-Ed: Cyberattack’s Effects Linger
Dealing with the massive Sept. 8 cyberattack on the computer system of Suffolk County government is still a work in progress, according to county legal notices published last month. The hacking of the county system included the exposure of personal information about a large number Read More …
Op-Ed: Romaine, Calone Line Up for County Executive Job
The race this year for Suffolk County executive—the top position in Suffolk County government—is taking shape with a contest between Republican Edward Romaine and Democrat Dave Calone. Romaine was first elected Brookhaven Town’s 70th town supervisor in a special election in 2012, and re-elected with Read More …
Op-Ed: The Reality of Hospice Care
Tara Liberman, executive director of Northwell Health’s Hospice Care Network writes about the value of hospice care and the reluctance of many people to explore it. Read More …
Pay Attention to Social Host Law When Having Holiday Parties
Sharon Richmond reminds us of the hazards and consequences of hosting holiday parties for young people. Read More …
Letter: Vote for Kids on Election Day
When you cast your vote this Election Day, vote for our children. Children can’t vote but we can and we must be their voice. When you vote, please consider that gun violence is the number one killer of our children. Consider voting for candidates that Read More …
Op-Ed: The Transformation of Political Advertising
As the 2022 election season comes to a close, highways in Suffolk County are full of political campaign signs making those sequential Burma-Shave signs of decades ago look minimal. For those who were not around when those placards bedecked the landscape, one of their sequences Read More …
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 …
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 …