Opinion

It’s getting hard to keep a grasp on what is and isn’t the right thing to do or to permit, with this teenage girl of mine.

Having observed what has happened to Montauk, members of the East Hampton Town Planning Board may have been extra sensitive to proposed changes to the Springs General Store involving on-premises alcohol consumption.

So where, exactly, is the popular will most manifestly expressed?

The summer of 1977, the summer of Son of Sam, brought trauma and fear, and the poison of trauma doesn’t just go away.

New York politics is nothing if not the land of the unexpected.

East Hampton Town Hall took a defensive posture after news this week that the private Montauk Airport had been sold to an undisclosed buyer.

Close to the day in which we are to celebrate the document that almost 250 years ago asserted our unity in opposition to tyranny, we find ourselves confronting it again.

Cerberus was later getting into the water than I had expected this year.

This column debuted exactly two years ago this week. I’m trying to think of what has changed in those two years.

At last, lyrics you could sink your teeth into.

Again today, the world is witness to invasion, resistance, and the need to escape repression.

The victory Tuesday of Sarah Amaden and Carrie Doyle in the East Hampton Village trustee election cements Mayor Jerry Larsen’s NewTown Party’s hold on the village board.

Things are comfortable here, so much so that one wants to stay put.

When the East Hampton Town Board gave restaurants the go-ahead to provide outdoor table service, it may have unleashed a wave of unintended consequences.

A goodbye to Little League and its ball field.

Being by the ocean is not, to me, a frivolous pursuit.

We have to wonder if Lee Zeldin will bring his conspiracy mania to the governor’s race.

Convenience mart food, and food for thought, at a pit stop in the land of plenty.

We are seeing a resurgence of attitudes antagonistic to correcting systemic racism. After two years of listening, there is not only fatigue around these conversations, but also significant pushback. So we must act.

According to our sources at the various East End food pantries, many of our neighbors still need assistance getting healthful meals on the table.

I’m intrigued by the fact that I’ve been diagnosed with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.

It’s important to talk about how social media distorts the digital world we see — and don’t see.

I’m not going to go gentle into that good night.

The East Hampton Star and The Suffolk Times have been the county’s “official” newspapers for their respective towns for about as long as anyone can remember. That was until this year, when the Suffolk Legislature removed them from the list.

The question for voters in the village is whether they think it is healthy or wise to support the mayor’s hand-picked candidates.

What’s all this fuss about lawn care?

Nature on Earth is in a man-made death spiral, but imagine how much faster we would be killing life as we know it if everyone on this fragile orb followed the lead of America’s most “successful.”

It has been clear that because of their refusal to cooperate on effective noise control, the airport interests themselves are forcing the town’s hand.

Countries like Britain, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, all chagrined by mass shootings at one time or another, have all effectively enacted gun safety laws.

When people complain about tape, most times, it seems to me, they are talking about red. But in my case, my beef is with blue, literally.