Editorials

At Bat: Campaign Reform Campaign finance scandals from Washington, D.C., to Long Island and beyond are rekindling some long overdue reform measures at every level. Disclosures about abuses in the national system failed to carry a reform bill in the Senate - it fell in late February to a Republican filibuster - but the game is not lost. Lower levels of government are stepping up to the plate. How Many Votes? A former Mayor of Southampton Village is spearheading a one-millionaire-two-votes crusade that would, if successful, accord wealthy second-home owners the right to vote in local elections as well as in their primary-residence districts. More Endangered The year is less than four months along, but already it looks to be a bad one for creatures in peril of extinction - hard to believe in 1998, which marks the 25th anniversary of the Federal Endangered Species Act. Please address correspondence to editor@easthamptonstar.com