Editorials

A bill sponsored in the State Legislature by Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. may represent the beginning of a big step forward on easing the region’s attainable housing crisis.

Important decisions are being made behind closed doors and without the full village board’s knowledge.

Despite a late start in coming up with new rules for East Hampton Airport, the town appears to be making progress.

An aptly described monster is rising over Ditch Plain.

With few exceptions, eastern Long Island’s school boards do not accurately reflect the demographic makeup of their districts.

For a few weeks now, we have been thinking about what ails some of our beloved local institutions.

Details of a plot by allies of former President Donald J. Trump and Mr. Trump himself to overturn the results of the 2020 election are increasingly coming to light.

A researcher seeking the East Hampton Town Trustees’ blessing for a pollutants study in Accabonac Harbor said that there was little scientific basis for many of town, county, and state initiatives.

In late March, researchers published a study that detected microplastics in the blood samples of more than three-quarters of their anonymous, healthy volunteers.

Why are easy-to-enforce local laws ignored every single day of the year?

The East Hampton Town Trustees are making the right move in joining a group of fishermen suing to preserve their access to a 4,000-foot-long portion of ocean beach.

Live-streamed local government and school board meetings are here to stay.

Our hearts break for the Ukrainian people, as bombs and missiles continue to wreck their cities, and we fear that the worst days may still be ahead.

Heavy eastbound traffic in the morning has resumed in force this week, prompting thoughts of limiting growth.

Opponents of an underground electrical wind farm cable now being installed in Wainscott have filed a lawsuit.

Something about selling alcohol at East Hampton Main Beach seems off.

Once again, East Hampton Town officials have been trying to figure out how to deal with the ever-increasing number of large events held here during the summer season.

With Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine now nearing its third week of active hostilities, the time may have come for conservatives of good conscience in the United States to take back the narrative from the Donald Trump-Tucker Carlson right wing.

In a tribute to Ukraine, a sharp reminder of the importance of knowing the past and how that knowledge can give us a better understanding of the present.

Recognizing the pressure of a rapidly heating planet, change may be coming, in East Hampton Town, at least.

The visually pleasant change in the Reutershan Lot is not without a significant public safety risk.

The East Hampton Town Board withers in the face of lawsuits from pilots and the air-transportation industry, and a letter from the F.A.A.

Good news for the environment: Blackstone is concerned about the long term in the extraction industries.

What to do about the increasing number of historic properties the town now owns.

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.

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.

What could be the largest ever land development project in East Hampton Town is under consideration for a site off Montauk Highway in Wainscott.

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.

East Hampton Town should never have gotten itself into the public storm it now faces over a plan to install artificial turf playing fields on a site off Stephen Hand’s Path.

The new curve-topped trash bins adorning the East Hampton Village business district are frankly ugly.