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Opinion

Town Airport Closing Should Proceed

The F.A.A. doesn’t like it one bit, but East Hampton Town should stay the course on a long-sought change to the way its airport operates.

Feb 17, 2022
Guestwords: A Living National Treasure

Japan’s tradition of designating artists and performers as Living National Treasures could be adapted here, and my first nominee would be Alan Alda.

Feb 17, 2022
A vintage typewriter-cleaning kit from the midcentury office The Shipwreck Rose: Desk Set

The news keeps reporting studies that conclude remote work is more productive work, but those studies are clearly incorrect.

Feb 17, 2022
Palin’s Pain, News Media’s Worry

Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, lost her libel lawsuit against The New York Times this week, but this important case may be headed to the Supreme Court.

Feb 17, 2022
Point of View: Encore! Encore!

Continuing in the same vein as last week, more excerpts from “Five Characters in Search of an Editor,” read 50 years ago at Guild Hall.

Feb 17, 2022
The Mast-Head: East Hampton’s Enslaved

Four years ago when a few of us began looking into early East Hampton’s relationship with slavery, we were met with a cocked head and some variation of “We don’t have anything about slavery.”

Feb 17, 2022
Gristmill: Talking to Coltrane

Two essential graphic novels on the occasion of Black History Month.

Feb 17, 2022
Point of View: Crypt Yields Antic Script

It’s funny, but when you’re looking for something, something else, something that you had given up looking for years ago, turns up.

Feb 10, 2022
The Mast-Head: East Hampton’s Enslavers

Black History Month has been busy here in recent years, since The Star and the East Hampton Library began looking into the history of slavery in earnest in the summer of 2017.

Feb 10, 2022
Gristmill: No Free Lunch

This sounds cheap, but I’d like to protest the disappearance of soup and sandwiches at the mobile New York Blood Center drives.

Feb 10, 2022
Bad News for Democracy

New York’s First Congressional District changed shape a week ago in one of the more egregious examples of this year’s wave of political gerrymandering.

Feb 10, 2022
Guestwords: The Meaning of Love

I don’t mean to idealize our boy dog, but here is love . . .

Feb 10, 2022