Editorials

It turns out that not only are our smartphones and computers commanding an increasing portion of our waking hours, but they are distracting us from even breathing.

For fans of local history as well as of early American furniture, the opening today of the new Dominy Shops Museum on North Main Street is an exciting moment.

Congress does not have that much of an obvious effect here, other than perhaps on marginal tax rates for the very rich, but on global warming policy it is a crucial player.

The Sag Harbor Village Board did the right thing recently when it proposed handing back development oversight in the waterfront zone to the village planning board.

East Hampton Town officials are again revising the rules for sandbag seawalls.

In the water, the big risk to life is drowning and near-drowning.

Neighbors worried about the current East Hampton Village administration’s designs on Herrick Park are rightly concerned.

East Hampton Town officials are beginning to practice what they have long preached when it comes to wastewater by installing modern wastewater systems at public restrooms and elsewhere. It’s high time.

With smartphone maps, there are no back roads anymore, and more tie-ups are the result.

Major new reports say that smartphone use could be directly linked to poor educational performance while harming children’s emotional stability.

Just as a lot of bad news about water was coming out, the Suffolk County Legislature failed to authorize putting the Water Quality Protection Act on the Nov. 7 ballot.

We have been here many times before. Officials and citizens vow to take a fresh look at building rules in the face of overdevelopment, but, in the end, little changes.