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Column: Affirmative action for the well-connected
An actual ivory tower, courtesy of Creative Commons. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to read between the lines of the brochure I received earlier this year from my college alma mater. “Admissions...
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Real Estate: How a family saved a historic Cape Cod
Michael and Alison Ventura outside their historic Village Lane home in Orient. The Cape Cod dates back to the 1700s. (Credit: Grant Parpan) On picture-postcard-pretty Village Lane in Orient, residents...
View ArticleGuest Column: Congressman Zeldin sticks to his guns
When the Daily News ran a photo of Congressman Lee Zeldin last week, it was the kind of publicity our representative could do without. You see, Mr. Zeldin, like all his Republican colleagues in the...
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Guest Column: The lessons learned from VW’s scandal
As Jeanne Markel tells it, she and her husband were so enthusiastic about their two Volkswagen “clean” diesels that the couple sang their praises to practically anyone who’d listen. “We were poster...
View ArticleGuest Column: Of primary concern — Bernie or Hillary
“I plan to vote for Bernie in the primary but Hillary in the general election.” I’ve been hearing that refrain fairly frequently from my Democratic friends as New York’s pivotal April 19 presidential...
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Guest column: Don’t be fooled by equating Clinton with Trump
When Al Gore’s supporters blamed a third-party candidate, Ralph Nader, for his narrow defeat by George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election, the renowned consumer advocate quipped that Mr. Gore...
View ArticleGuest Column: Reflecting on President Obama’s tenure
It was election night in 2008 and I was in a packed hotel ballroom in downtown Cleveland surrounded by campaign volunteers for Barack Obama who’d gathered before a giant TV screen to watch him deliver...
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Guest Column: Trump’s view of the press conjures Russia
Being of a certain age, I still like to buy the print editions of English-language newspapers when traveling abroad. And I’ve been able to get them, even in countries like China and Myanmar (Burma),...
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Guest Column: The unfinished business at Edwards Farm
Unless you’re looking for it, the Edwards Farm in Orient can easily escape your notice. You come upon it on the south side of Main Road just west of Latham Sand & Gravel and less than a mile...
View ArticleGuest Spot: Shifting freight from road to rail on LI
You don’t have to be a transportation expert to grasp that something is seriously out of whack with how freight travels on Long Island and the rest of downstate New York. According to the Port...
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