Opinion

There are many obvious benefits to e-bikes, from convenience to cost, but the safety dangers are just as obvious.

The baseball season’s arrival is most welcome. It’s just a touch early.

My maternal grandmother was critical and not affectionate in the least. In fact, I was afraid of her. But now that I’m a grandmother myself, I see there’s more to the story.

There is an important caveat regarding privacy and the way locally collected data could be abused.

East Hampton’s rapidly changing landscape could be the story of the decade.

Apparently not everyone gets much of anything off of flowers. Can that be true?

Adventures with potholes.

What we are witnessing in the waterfowl die-offs here is not an isolated incident. It is part of a much larger ecological process unfolding across continents.

Art that can be seen and appreciated by people passing by is largely limited to private property.

Americans should pay close attention to the disturbing tactics being used by the White House and Pentagon to punish news outlets that stray from the federal government’s approved talking points.

In California I finally got inside a robotaxi. It was terrific.

I moved to Alphabet City in the depths of the crack epidemic.

What, me worry?

Maybe it’s time to show deer some mercy.

Regarding “beautifying” Amagansett’s Main Street, do less, don’t do nothing.

Whether the next project along Springs-Fireplace Road is a long-proposed car wash or something else, the potential redevelopment south of Abraham’s Path is massive.

I wonder about how ospreys respond to a less-than-dependable food chain.

It seems unreasonable that we should be ruled by the transit of the sun, but we are.

It never occurred to me how much I would miss the solid, grand old institutions of the late-20th century.

Comprehensive plans are more vision statements than action plans, but in one key aspect a near-final draft for East Hampton Village is specific and deserves close attention.

The Daughters of the American Revolution bring the hammer down on the Oath of Allegiance to the Crown.

Lessons in humanity from the Blackout of 2003.

With highly pathogenic avian influenza on the march and in numerous dead geese, now is a good time to skip the beach walk with the family dog.

The last of the cold weeks is a fine time for mending a holey sweater, looking online at what new things I might buy for the boat, and baking.

The scene outside my bedroom window was a blur of whiteout. It was like being inside the white-and-purple twister lifting the house to Oz.

Olympics on the TV as a source of cohesion.

Freud equated understanding the mind with an archeological dig. The sites are sometimes real places.

According to the National Weather Service, freezing roads are responsible for nearly four times more deadly accidents than all other weather hazards combined.

It turns out that there is a powerful biological basis for helping out.

Ever since hantavirus became a thing on the East End, it has been war.