Editorials
Editorial: Tale of two methods
It may be difficult sometimes for news consumers to decipher between a news article written by a journalist and a press release composed by...
Editorial: Businesses Should Look to End Discrimination
If you ignore prejudice, you invite prejudice.
Stony Brook University officials recently hosted a forum in Port Jefferson to highlight how, despite efforts to stamp...
Editorial: Opioids and crime
The opioid epidemic is so expansive that it seems impossible that one individual can end the overdoses and deaths and the related crimes. But...
Editorial: Slight against science
When the National Institutes of Health funds scientific research, the government is investing in hope. The people with the purse strings believe the scientists...
Editorial: How libraries survive
Believe it or not, people still read books.
Despite the doom and gloom and often-reiterated refrain that young people today are illiterate, the world and...
Editorial: End red-light camera ticket program
In 2010, Suffolk County hired a contractor to install cameras at certain dangerous, traffic-light intersections with the expressed purpose of improving public safety, since...
Editorial: Let teenagers sleep
Parents across the North Shore are hoping their teenagers will soon get to sleep in — even during the school year.
Many studies now point...
Editorial: Civics need your help
As local journalists, we spend many hours attending meetings. Many, many meetings. Our goal is to know what’s happening in our communities at every...
Editorial: Child Victims Act takes effect
On Wednesday, Aug. 14, New York’s Child Victims Act took effect. Under the law, people have one year to file a civil suit related...
Editorial: Remember in 2019
Americans feel sorrow and fear whenever we learn that a gunmen carrying a high-powered firearm has committed a mass shooting. In one week, three...
