Category Archives: long island

The Days After Election Day

Posted on October 31, 2020 by

As our democracy hangs by a rapidly fraying thread, it is critical that each of us do everything we can to ensure that Donald Trump is voted out of office, and once voted out of office, that he actually LEAVES … Continue reading →

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YAY! I voted!

Posted on October 24, 2020 by

Like you, I have been waiting for this moment for 4 years. I have never seen voting lines like this, not in 20 years, not in sleepy East Hampton after the summer crowds are long gone. Newsday and the Press … Continue reading →

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Caravans in Suffolk County

Posted on October 22, 2020 by

From Shoshona Hershkowitz on Saturday’s rally on Long Island New York: Yesterday, people where I live, we were harassed by the Trump caravan. This group with covered license plates, screaming slurs out of their bullhorns at intersections, calling for the … Continue reading →

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Prop #1: Yes or No?

Posted on October 20, 2020 by

Prop #1 asks voters (on the back of the ballot for Nov 3rd) if we’d like the term length for our Suffolk County legislators be four years rather than the current two. A no vote advocates keeping them on a … Continue reading →

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Trump’s chearleader: Lee Zeldin

Posted on October 15, 2020 by

Don’t let him fool you: LZ will take away your healthcare, your reproductive rights and destroy the environment. Another 4 years of DT and another 2 years of LZ spells disaster. VOTE GOROFF for Congress, Biden/Harris for the top of … Continue reading →

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Vote NO on Proposal #2

Posted on October 10, 2020 by

While we are all concentrating on the front of the ballot, there are 2 proposals on the back. #2 is of particular concern. Here is why. Your drinking water is at risk! While everyone was home and grappling with the … Continue reading →

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Trump Is Killing Us

Posted on October 9, 2020 by

Letter to the Editor published in The East Hampton Star, October 8 Corrosive Effects To the Editor: The deadliest threat facing the American public isn’t the coronavirus, it’s the toxic brew of arrogance and ignorance that Trump and his loyalists … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Economic Fallout

Posted on October 5, 2020 by

Guestwords in the East Hampton Star: Trump’s Economic Fallout for Suffolk County and Long Island By John Tepper Marlin and Steven Newman October 1, 2020 President Trump’s three main economic initiatives have been radical 2017 cuts in taxes (at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Coronavirus, East Hampton, economics, economy, jobs, long island, stimulus, stock market, swamp, Tax Reform, Trump, Zeldin | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

NY State Senators under Attack

Posted on October 1, 2020 by

From Sue in Brookhaven:  The attacks from Ron Lauder on Democratic State Senators from Long Island are unconscionable as well as false. They also raise an important strategy question. These attacks especially infuriate me: at the same time that Lauder … Continue reading →

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Early Voting

Posted on September 11, 2020 by

I can’t wait. Voting in NY State and Suffolk county starts on October 24th, a little over 1 month from now! In contrast to absentee ballots and voting by mail, there seems less risk of your vote not being counted … Continue reading →

Posted in Civil Rights, Coronavirus, disenfranchisement, East Hampton, Fair elections, long island, Nancy Goroff, voting by mail | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments

Mosquito Samples and Birds Test Positive for West Nile Virus

Posted on September 8, 2020 by

In SEPTEMBER 2019 there were 2 cases of West Nile Virus requiring hospitalization on eastern Long Island as reported in the Riverhead Local: “West Nile virus is transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected mosquito. It is estimated … Continue reading →

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We have been warned.

Posted on September 4, 2020 by

Rather than denial and political inertia from the Republican party now in power, what if we had acted immediately on what our science community understood and warned us about, the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic? The resulting health, economic, and … Continue reading →

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Sowed Discord

Posted on August 28, 2020 by

SpringsAugust 24, 2020 Dear David: The past three and a half years have been a master class in the havoc that can be wrought when a president is constrained by neither truth nor decency. Starting with the size of his … Continue reading →

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Make Trump and Zeldin Pay a Political Price

Posted on July 23, 2020 by

Appeared as Letter to the Editor, The East Hampton Star, July 23 Price to Pay Springs July 20, 2020 To The Editor: We all want nothing more than to get on with our lives without worrying about contracting the coronavirus. … Continue reading →

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Complete Lee Zeldin Environmental Voting Record

Posted on July 8, 2020 by

Lee Zeldin’s League of Conservation Voters (LCV) score for 2019 was 28%. This seems like an improvement from his scores from prior years, which hovered around 10%, but to put things in perspective: The average Member of Congress score in … Continue reading →

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Zeldin’s Blind Allegiance to Trump

Posted on July 2, 2020 by

Appeared as Letter to the Editor in The East Hampton Star Shocking Indifference East Hampton June 29, 2020 Dear David, Five months after Covid-19 was first diagnosed in the U.S. and 125,000 deaths later, the Trump administration still has no … Continue reading →

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“I Can’t Breathe”

Posted on June 1, 2020 by

“I Can’t Breathe” The Murder of George Floyd “The time for endless conversation has passed. We are a nation of differences and this is our greatest strength. It is a time for action in a way that cannot be ignored … Continue reading →

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Protest in Commack drawing criticism

Posted on May 31, 2020 by

Some insightful letters to Newsday: The behavior of a few unruly demonstrators at the recent Commack protest was shameful [“Trump cheers LI protesters,” News, May 17]. If these few were, say, 4% of the demonstrators, the other 96% could have … Continue reading →

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Visiting New York City

Posted on May 3, 2020 by

I have not been in the city since late February 2020. Much has changed.  It is now a ghost town.  Nobody rides the subway and there are no cabs.  On the bright side, there are plenty of parking spaces and … Continue reading →

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The Suffolk “BOE” Commissioner Must Resign

Posted on April 30, 2020 by

By law, Lalota can’t run the BOE while running for office Submitted by Jacquelyn Gavron Following is testimony presented to the Legislature during its public hearing on an Independent Office of Inspector General for Suffolk County, proposed in response to … Continue reading →

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