Opinion

A storm of aggressive and sometimes egregious development is upon us, and the East Hampton Town Building Department is unsupported. This is a disastrous combination.

No wonder April’s called the cruelest month.

Governor Hochul has a chance to pass a critically important lifeline to local journalism as negotiations on New York State’s 2024 budget come down to the wire.

In the basement one evening this week, I began thinking about tools, pacing one’s self, and focusing on the path, instead of the outcome.

Is it possible the pendulum has swung too hard toward time-saving devices, the no-brain zone, and ultraconvenience?

Keeping tabs on the on-again-off-again check engine light.

So what’s it really like to take a job as an Amazon driver?

Carl Johnson hopes Bridgehampton can remain a year-round community.

East Hampton Town officials say they are getting tough on so-called temporary measures to save properties from erosion. We’ll believe it when we see it.

Tick season is upon us again, and so are conversations about the East End’s public enemy number one.

The other day, when looking into family history for a column, I read a New Yorker magazine profile of a charming rustic character by the name of Everett Joshua Edwards: my great-grandfather.

It is increasingly accepted that alternative ways of getting around, ones that do not require fossil fuels, can help reduce planet-warming gases, but there is another direct benefit: money.

It’s the simplicity, stupid.

Rediscovering basketball on my street in Springs, I began to lose myself in the joy of just being in my body and rekindling my relationship with my younger self and a ball.

In Springs, the school board may very likely seek voter approval for increasing taxes above a state-mandated safety valve for the first time.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez said that in Latin America, the completely fantastical was reality.

A heartbreaking story in The New York Times this week described in detail some state legislatures’ disastrous ideological rejection of federal Medicaid payments.

I will be in the 60-plus demographic by the time the new East Hampton senior citizens center opens; I have to get my 2 cents in somehow.

I’m more than a little susceptible to seasonal affective disorder, but my outlook brightens as soon as the big hand on the grandfather clock is wound forward an hour on daylight saving time and the afternoons begin to lengthen.

A tip of the hat goes to Lou Cortese, a member of the East Hampton Town Planning Board, for calling out a certain flexibility in the way land-use laws are applied.

We interrupt raging March Madness to wonder when the Jets’ Aaron Rodgers waiting game will ever end.

In a newly unstable banking environment, American depositors can thank William H. Woodin of East Hampton for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

From here, it is difficult to understand what the holdup has been on saving Plum Island.

Unlike Dante, we began our trip in Purgatory at the federal building on the city’s Lower West Side.

Members of the East Hampton Town Board are correct in asking the question once again about the commercial use of beaches. A conversation they had recently about capping the number of guests at some events may not have gone far enough.

There was a time when I paid close attention to what it said on the backs of seed envelopes. Now I know enough to make my own decisions about the timing of when to plant.

This week’s column is the personal-essay equivalent of a very bad odor. Prepare yourself, reader!

The surprising end result of all that construction work at La Guardia.

How did we get to this precarious situation with Montauk’s water quality? The problem, in a word, is overdevelopment.

Since ex-police chief and current East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen first started his campaign against the Village Ambulance Association, the main public reaction has been if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.