Editorials

The Hospital In Crisis Perhaps nothing points up the disaster that the health care system in this country has turned out to be as sharply as the financial problems now facing Southampton Hospital. Gauging Public Opinion January is consumed with introspection: by government officials on the state of their constituencies, institutions on their profit picture, and individuals on how to broaden their personal horizons - or, perhaps, narrow their girth. A Day In January "And what is so rare as a day in June?" famously inquired the poet James Russell Lowell. Answer: a Sunday in January when the thermometer soars above 60 and the Chinese witch hazel fairly shrieks, "Look at me! I'm budding! I'm budding!" Please address correspondence to editor@easthamptonstar.com