Editorials

Voters should think hard and ask themselves if one-party control is a good thing.

Maintaining a status quo in East Hampton Town should not be an option, no matter who wins the important board election that concludes on Tuesday.

Sadly for those who want quick noise relief from East Hampton Airport, a majority of the town board does not appear eager to make any changes right away.

Early voting begins on Saturday, and Rick Drew’s name will appear on the Independence Party ballot line. He deserves a close look.

Early voting begins Saturday, and with it the direction of East Hampton Town government comes into play.

In an editorial last week, the election date that will establish staggered terms for East Hampton Town trustees was misstated.

Seeking re-election, East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc has proposed landing and takeoff curfews, something that was tried before and failed to cut down on noise.

Ken Walles, running for town supervisor, declared that a Zoom debate was not a debate at all. If ever we heard a bigger cop-out from a candidate, we can’t recall it.

With voting to begin in three weeks in an important election cycle, a promising change to the way the East Hampton Town Trustees will be chosen is ahead.

Now comes word that Facebook’s leadership knew the harm that it and its apps did and that, far from being something they tried to stop, it was the company’s business model.

A measure passed in the New York State Legislature could radically change how affordable housing projects on the East End are funded.

Some leeway in the community preservation fund law may have to be found for Fisher’s dream house to be used as an event space, as in for weddings.

On Oct. 15, the village board will take comments on a proposal that would mandate property-maintenance standards.

Early voting is only a month away in an important East Hampton Town Board election, but the real issues remain difficult to sort out.

In 2015, when East Hampton Village officials took on a growing trend of extra-large residential basements, their concern was that the extra living space brought with it a range of complications.

Building is out of control in the Town of East Hampton and is changing cherished neighborhoods in the blink of an eye.

Remarkably, the arguments in favor of keeping East Hampton Airport in operation were generally without substance.

So-called spot zoning is illegal in New York State, which made a recent East Hampton Town Planning Board decision to recommend just that a head-scratcher.

Any and all concerned with East Hampton Airport will have an opportunity tonight at 7 to say just how they feel.

The public is not invited. That is the message of a recent East Hampton Village Board decision to go from holding meetings twice each month to just once.

This is one of those years when nature has looked with favor on the East End, providing us with a beach plum harvest for the ages.

The death of Devesh Samtani, an 18-year-old summer visitor who had been struck by a car while walking on the side of the road in Amagansett at night last month, was an avoidable tragedy.

Ranking states in terms of corruption is difficult, but if it were possible New York certainly could claim a top position.

One warning sign is that the present town board is not to be trusted when it comes to recreational or environmentally significant areas.

The United States was never going to win in Afghanistan.

In what could be the first of sweeping relaxation of zoning laws, the East Hampton Village Board last week made it easier for the owners of large properties to get more of what they apparently wanted.

Certainly Covid-19 vaccines are near-miraculous, but they are no magic force field for everyone.

Ongoing conversations about East Hampton Airport could muddle public opinion, leaving a path for the board to avoid having to make the tough decision at all.

Do we believe that East Hampton could handle another decade of similar growth?

Questioning the value of offshore wind based on maintenance issues with the first United States project is a stretch.