Opinion

East Hampton Town’s efforts to help Montauk senior citizens access their medications come as a reminder that good governing at the local level is more essential than ever.

Montaukett Chief Robert Pharaoh’s accepting a proclamation last week from East Hampton Town Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez may have marked the beginning of a centuries-delayed rapprochement between the tribe and the town.

We can’t help but think shopping holidays are a bit silly, but in the case of Small Business Saturday we are getting over it and heading out to give cash thanks.

I heard a liberal podcaster the other day lamenting the corniness of the term “the Resistance,” which brings to mind some dystopian movie.

We are swimming upstream against the mighty current of all-consuming consumerism as Black Friday approaches.

It was as welcome as it was toothsome when Brian Collins, pitmaster, served up a colonial meal, history lesson on the side, at the Nathaniel Rogers House.

There are people in my Protestant church tradition who will say you shouldn’t mix politics and religion. But that’s impossible. The teachings in Scripture in any of our religious traditions call for responsible action based on central affirmations of faith.

It is hardly surprising that Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency is a man staunchly on the side of polluters. This is fealty over expertise.

Donald Trump views journalists as the “enemy of the people.” It is urgent that the PRESS Act pass the Senate.

Recalling then-Representative Lee Zeldin’s strange town hall in Amagansett.

The movies are my lexicon.

If this week has taught us anything, it’s that we need more opportunities to come together for fun. You got a taste of that if you had a chance to stop by the block party that the East Hampton Village Foundation hosted on Newtown Lane on Oct. 26 as the Yankees faced the Dodgers in Game 2 of the World Series.

It almost seems a drop in a vast sea of uncertainty to talk of something as seemingly small as signs in Sag Harbor. Yet in the context of the re-election of a Constitution-defying leader, small freedoms will come to loom large.

Casting an early ballot in the old Southampton College gym brings on the hoop dreams.

Memories of a time abroad that taught one writer how to truly experience travel.

Overnight, from Tuesday to Wednesday, the world shifted on its axis. We can pretend we awoke to the same country, and go about our business, but we did not.

A number of people I’ve run into in the past couple of weeks have asked about my sailboat and what the status of its motor retrofit is. Perhaps it was because of the unseasonably mild weather that some minds turned to sailing.

Many, many years — and many shattered illusions — ago, during the presidential election year of 2004, when I was a magazine editor in Manhattan, I volunteered during the Republican National Convention as an “election observer.”

Paging George Costanza? My college-age son has a wallet beyond his years.

Proposals for some development regulations that just might save this place are up for a public hearing with town board members next Thursday, Nov. 7, at 6 p.m. at Town Hall.

I have a problem with genius jerks who have a great idea in a garage somewhere and then see themselves as gods.

I am overawed by previous generations of Rattray women who managed to file their weekly Star columns without a break over the span of four and five decades.

Fred W. Thiele Jr., who has represented the East End in the State Assembly for nearly 30 years, leaves enormous shoes to fill. He has endorsed Tommy John Schiavoni to replace him, calling him the candidate with "the temperament, maturity, and leadership skills needed to get things done."

For decency. For rationality. For science. For truth — and for many, many other reasons — we are for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

Voters in East Hampton Town should vote "No" on Proposition 3. If approved, the proposition would allow town officials to take protected status away from a wooded, 2.4-acre triangle at the confluence of Three Mile Harbor and Springs-Fireplace Roads on North Main Street in East Hampton.

State Senator Anthony Palumbo can be found on the Republican and Conservative ballot lines. We believe that he is the better choice for our end of Long Island.

Representative Nick LaLota is in a tough spot: trying to present himself as a moderate while not appearing so cozy with Democrats that he risks alienating his conservative District 1 base.

Proposition 2 on Suffolk County ballots this election cycle would allow the county to raise the sales tax by one-eighth of 1 percent to support a dedicated Water Quality Restoration Fund.

The National Warplane Museum in Geneseo triggers (in a good way) one non-pilot.

Thoughts on a neighborhood spraying of pesticides, weekly through the end of December.