Editorials

Oil was a winner this week and wind a loser in the Trump administration’s first round of executive orders.

Sharpen your skates, East Hampton.

We hope that officials here are seizing the moment to come up with new ways to reduce catastrophic risks in a region underprepared for large-scale wildfires.

While Gov. Kathy Hochul’s State of the State speech Tuesday offered some good news for natural resources, organizations involved in fighting climate change were disappointed.

The wisdom of the caretakers at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, who had proactively set about creating firebreaks and irrigating their property before the latest conflagrations began, offers a lesson for the South Fork.

Donald Trump has said he might pardon the nearly 1,600 Jan. 6 defendants on day one of his new administration, which would be yet another bad day for the rule of law in the United States.

What could possibly go wrong when the world’s biggest media company eradicates the fact-checkers?

The beauty of Jimmy Carter was that he persisted. He was a man of true convictions.

For those who had high hopes for the Montauketts, this latest veto stings even more than the last five times a New York governor killed the tribe’s recognition.

The East Hampton Village Police Chief put it bluntly the other day when he remarked, “Big Brother is everywhere.”

The state’s campaign to dismantle the Shinnecock Indian Nation’s electronic billboards and seek punitive damages is a waste of time and resources.

A lawsuit over a proposed swimming pool at the Huntting Inn in East Hampton Village is worthy of public attention.

The East Hampton Town Board has a chance at its Jan. 2 organizational meeting to either back away from its decision to remove the chairman of the town planning board, or at least offer the public a reasonable explanation.

The intersection at Cedar and North Main Streets and a bit farther north at the split of Three Mile Harbor and Springs-Fireplace Roads are two areas that desperately need a fresh set of painted lines.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, is a Senate vote away from becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

A call to give landmark status to about 30 acres in Wainscott recently bought by East Hampton Town should be heeded.

Suffolk Community College recently made the lamentable decision to stop offering journalism as a major.

The Star’s Holiday Spirit decorating contest, launched with the help of the Anchor Society and the Greater East Hampton Chamber of Commerce, was judged on Saturday, and we have a winner: the Monogram Shop of Newtown Lane.

In the waning days of his administration President Biden could unilaterally declare Plum Island a national monument, thereby sidestepping Congress.

Here’s what we are most grateful for on Thanksgiving eve, 2024.

In a town where just getting a permit to build a deck can take six months or more, taking time to get things right should be seen as just part of the deal.

East Hampton Town’s efforts to help Montauk senior citizens access their medications come as a reminder that good governing at the local level is more essential than ever.

Montaukett Chief Robert Pharaoh’s accepting a proclamation last week from East Hampton Town Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez may have marked the beginning of a centuries-delayed rapprochement between the tribe and the town.

We can’t help but think shopping holidays are a bit silly, but in the case of Small Business Saturday we are getting over it and heading out to give cash thanks.

It is hardly surprising that Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency is a man staunchly on the side of polluters. This is fealty over expertise.

Donald Trump views journalists as the “enemy of the people.” It is urgent that the PRESS Act pass the Senate.

If this week has taught us anything, it’s that we need more opportunities to come together for fun. You got a taste of that if you had a chance to stop by the block party that the East Hampton Village Foundation hosted on Newtown Lane on Oct. 26 as the Yankees faced the Dodgers in Game 2 of the World Series.

It almost seems a drop in a vast sea of uncertainty to talk of something as seemingly small as signs in Sag Harbor. Yet in the context of the re-election of a Constitution-defying leader, small freedoms will come to loom large.

Overnight, from Tuesday to Wednesday, the world shifted on its axis. We can pretend we awoke to the same country, and go about our business, but we did not.

Fred W. Thiele Jr., who has represented the East End in the State Assembly for nearly 30 years, leaves enormous shoes to fill. He has endorsed Tommy John Schiavoni to replace him, calling him the candidate with "the temperament, maturity, and leadership skills needed to get things done."