Opinion

Conservatives will accept the reality of climate change once they realize that the most effective solution is one that depends on market forces rather than government regulation.

For Mary Graves, May 25, 1952 - June 17, 2024

There are few things in this world as repulsive as bilgewater.

Who shall we nominate for the emblematic animal sensation of summer 2024?

Besides touchy, what is “local,” anyway?     

After D-Day, why did it take the Allies 11 months to make it from Normandy to Berlin, when normally it’s a day’s drive?

More than 56 years after he first wrote for this newspaper, Jack Graves will be inducted into the Long Island Journalism Hall of Fame by the Press Club of Long Island at an awards banquet in Woodbury.

“I’m happy . . . I know it may not be politically correct these days to say so, but, yes, happy, I confess.”

According to an insurance group’s study, fatal accidents at intersections dropped by almost 25 percent in cities where the use of stop-light cameras was widespread.

A proposed traffic circle at the intersection of Long Lane, Stephen Hand’s Path, and Two Holes of Water Road in East Hampton is a road sign of sorts pointing at the unintended effects of growth. 

Cerberus, my 1979 sloop, remains where I left it in October, at a marina on the Connecticut River. The plan is to get it back into the water soon.

The Justice Alito flag scandal reminds us how the Supreme Court is different and answers only to itself.

A novelistic chance meeting at a bar in Noyac triggers questions about life in the Hamptons — and triggers generally.

A last-minute trip to Belmont Park one June day in 1973 led to our correspondent witnessing a once-in-a-lifetime triumph — Secretariat’s Triple Crown.

Nick LaLota will say anything it takes to stay in the convicted felon ex-president’s favor and not anger First District voters.

You intimately sense the connection between those who have gone before and those coming after in a small town Memorial Day parade such as ours.

What makes the health risks at South Lake Drive Beach in Montauk so unfortunate is that they have chiefly affected kids.

There is a distinct proprietary protectiveness of the very wealthy among us.

We’re not sure how likely it is that that the Protect Our Pedestrians Act will be able to sidestep the usual Albany roadblocks, but the issue it reflects is an increasingly important one.

Making like a trucker, hell-bent on Myrtle Beach.

The idea of downing a brisk brew now and again is growing on me. It seems to match my middle-aged self, my slower self, my more contented self.

We dweebs go into the city about once a decade.

It was with profound befuddlement that news was received in this office, last week, that John Drew Theater at Guild Hall had been renamed.

Down where I live, within feet of the marsh, the buzz is constant from about the end of May until early October.

The Cranberry Hole Road bridge in Amagansett has been closed for repairs for a year. And, from appearances, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is in no hurry to reopen it.

You, too, may have found yourself wondering about the staying power of even the best of “prestige television.” A nun to the rescue.

One sportfisherman’s perspective on how Montauk has changed.

It’s a sign of a healthy community when you have good people vying for a public position, especially one that can be relatively thankless, like that of school board member. Barbara Dayton, the Springs School Board’s president who lost her seat in Tuesday’s election, is an example of an upstanding citizen who has worked hard, achieved much, and deserves a tip of the hat.

So, what did I learn this week? That Audubon “more than once described birds that almost certainly never existed,” and that the L.V.I.S. didn’t have any pants with a 35-inch waist.

Back in 1992, when the state turned a few wild turkeys loose in the woods, few people, if any, anticipated how well they would do. These days they are as common as deer but somewhat less destructive. In ecological terms, wild turkeys are a good thing.