Opinion

Ken Walles, running for town supervisor, declared that a Zoom debate was not a debate at all. If ever we heard a bigger cop-out from a candidate, we can’t recall it.

Seeking re-election, East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc has proposed landing and takeoff curfews, something that was tried before and failed to cut down on noise.

In an editorial last week, the election date that will establish staggered terms for East Hampton Town trustees was misstated.

It seems to me that we Americans assume that the things we surround ourselves with are made not by actual people, but through some form of immaculate extrusion.

It’s 2021 and the voices of artificial intelligence that call our landlines attempting grand larceny never sound as human as Hal 9000 did.

How about the worker bees getting their due for a change?

When I interrupt, it isn’t because I want to stifle discussion, it’s because I want to extend it.

Recollections of a day in Missouri when everyone was a Cardinal.

Now comes word that Facebook’s leadership knew the harm that it and its apps did and that, far from being something they tried to stop, it was the company’s business model.

With voting to begin in three weeks in an important election cycle, a promising change to the way the East Hampton Town Trustees will be chosen is ahead.

There is a deepening frustration with the East End’s direction.

How pleasant it must have been to be an inhabitant of that now-distant Cheever America of General Electric affluence, Buicks and Panasonics, and 10,000 swimming pools.