Opinion

Voters should think hard and ask themselves if one-party control is a good thing.

“Us,” the PBS mini-series that ran on “Masterpiece” — every married couple should see it.

What is it about Sag Harbor that brings out the spirits?

Yesterday, in the throes of a flushed feeling of unease, “a full-body tingling” that seems to occur monthly whose cause has yet to be determined by the cardiologists — that it doesn’t happen every night when the NewsHour’s on can be counted a blessing — I answered “not very well” when asked, casually, how I was feeling.

Maintaining a status quo in East Hampton Town should not be an option, no matter who wins the important board election that concludes on Tuesday.

For many of us, the windstorm that lingered from Tuesday into Wednesday brought to mind 2012 and Superstorm Sandy, which paralyzed the Northeast. Oct. 28 of that year had been still and warm enough that two of the Rattray children had gone swimming at the copper-gold end of the day.

Many times over the last 13 years, since my daughter arrived home at the age of 1, I’ve wanted to astonish everyone with my own list of all the tasks and errands I accomplish daily. I can hardly believe, myself, that I wake up by 6:30, and not infrequently by 5:45 a.m., in order to begin the varied and often esoteric chores of momming, from goldfish-feeding to trumpet-renting.

Early voting begins on Saturday, and Rick Drew’s name will appear on the Independence Party ballot line. He deserves a close look.

Best diner ever.

Because I can physically see the work getting done as I rake, I view things with a beneficence I can’t summon in life’s more static moments.

Sadly for those who want quick noise relief from East Hampton Airport, a majority of the town board does not appear eager to make any changes right away.

We should see our history whole, not just cherry-pick the good parts.

It was a proud father moment for me watching the East Hampton Village Board meeting two weeks ago.

We have entered red-pickup season.

Early voting begins Saturday, and with it the direction of East Hampton Town government comes into play.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Good times, literally and figuratively, at a massive college cross-country meet in an unlikely place — the National Warplane Museum in northwestern New York.

On Columbus Day weekend, revisiting Philip Roth’s breakthrough collection with an eye on identity politics.

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.

Someone said that he thought it was the last day of summer, but there was too much going on to reflect then upon the waning light.

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.