Guest Spot: Middle class is shouldering unfair burden
Benjamin Franklin once famously wrote, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Well, leave it up to the ingenuity of American business 200 years later to prove him...
View ArticleGuest Spot: We must pass the state tax cap test
Painful property tax increases could cease if state legislators wholeheartedly enacted Governor Cuomo’s property tax cap that limits annual property tax increases to 2 percent. It is what voters want....
View ArticleGuest Spot: Yellow bags have proven their worth
Change is hard, and unless it’s a change for the better, don’t do it. Time has proved that the yellow-bag system works and works well. Simply put, you pay for the amount you throw out, no more no less....
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Guest Spot: Joy and heartbreak, without any regret
BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | Vince Taldone and his put bull, Champ, just a few weeks before Champ was put down. In the fall of 2010, I read an article in the Riverhead News-Review about the Town Board...
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Guest Spot: Look at the child, not just the test scores
KATHARINE SCHROEDER FILE PHOTO | Students in Ms. Salmaggi’s class work with iPads in December at Southold High School. I like to say good morning to our students. No, actually I love saying good...
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Guest Column: Power lines ignored, but trees are savaged
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON FILE PHOTO | Long Island Power Authority trucks on Factory Avenue in Mattituck. LIPA savaged my trees. They say they are protecting the power lines, but cutting the trees in half...
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Guest Spot: No more dithering over deer
JIM COLLIGAN FILE PHOTO | A town deer forum will be held Sept. 26. The recent motorcycle accident in Peconic and scheduling of yet another town deer forum on Sept. 26 serve as reminders of our...
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Guest Spot: Five simple ways to better support kids at home
KATHARINE SCHROEDER FILE PHOTO | Teacher Jen Skuggevik teaches pre-k writing in Greenport There has been a great deal of press about the Common Core curriculum, testing and what schools will and won’t...
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Guest Column: A legislator’s pitch for culling the deer population
KATHARINE SCHROEDER FILE PHOTO | The rise in deer population has become one of the biggest concerns for North Fork residents. As a lifelong resident of the North Fork, I have witnessed the explosion...
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Guest Spot: Where everybody knows your name
Broken Down Valise bartender Michelle Suarez (right) talks with customers (from left) Scott Nietupski, Jon Allen and Ed Grohoski on a recent Friday. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch) New York on a hot day in...
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Guest Spot: Can’t downplay the importance of French
(Credit: Times/Review stock art) It was with sadness but not surprise that I read the recent report about the demise of French in the Mattituck School District. As the school population on the North...
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Guest Spot: Argument rife with hypocrisy, xenophobia
If you’re a person who believes we can’t possibly reduce gun violence with policies that outlaw guns in our communities, then you cannot also argue that somehow we will magically eradicate crime and...
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Guest Column: Don’t rubber-stamp terminal expansion in Northville
United Riverhead Terminal in Northville plans to convert two of the existing petroleum tanks on its property to gasoline storage tanks. (Credit: Tim Gannon) The United Riverhead Terminal is located in...
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Guest Spot: Finding insight on the way to a lighthouse
For more than 35 years, I’d been looking longingly at a picture of a lighthouse on a spectacular headland jutting into the Atlantic near the westernmost tip of the British mainland. Someday, I vowed,...
View ArticleGuest Spot: Myths on ticks that must be debunked
Robert Fox’s letter (“Blame the rodents,” April 14) concerning the report of Southold’s tick working group is very useful. It reveals major reasons why it has been so difficult to make progress on our...
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Guest Spot: It’s the town’s job to protect Route 48
The Army Corps of Engineers’ proposal to mitigate coastal erosion at Hashamomuck Cove is ill advised and will prove to be a measure by which taxpayer money is flushed into the sea (“Concerns over...
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Guest Spot: On Election Day, vote yes on CPF extension
This Election Day, voters on the North Fork can take a huge step to improve water quality and preserve open space and farmland. Since 1999, the Community Preservation Fund has raised over $1 billion...
View ArticleGuest Spot: Critical election for American Christians
With a very important Election Day coming up Nov. 8 and a lot on the line for our land of the free and home of the brave — by and for the people — here’s what America’s founding fathers believed: “Our...
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Guest Spot: Moratorium overlooks industry benefits
Earlier this spring, I began working through the application process with Southold Town to build a production brewery on an industrially zoned parcel located on the corner of Oregon Road and Cox Lane...
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Guest Spot: Big win on farmland for voters, taxpayers
Christmas came early for Suffolk County voters in the form of a New York State Supreme Court decision on preserving farmland. In a lawsuit brought by our Long Island Pine Barrens Society, Justice...
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