A Plum Island Victory
In a year of unrelenting bad news, the region got an end-of-December gift in the form of language in a federal appropriations bill that would stop the looming sale of Plum Island to the highest bidder.
Fearing Spike, Officials Urge Extra Caution in Holiday Celebrations
Covid-19 continued to surge this week, with 1,034 new Suffolk County cases confirmed on Monday. That represents 7.2 percent of the 14,282 test results that came in that day; the seven-day average positive test rate was 7.2 percent as well.
What Now, Republicans?
How the Republican Party rebuilds after the president is out of office — or even if it can — has been the subject of a great deal of discussion as his term ends.
The Mast-Head: Arrows of Doom
We could learn something about how to handle a pandemic from 17th-century England.