Opinion

How do you get from Covid to the tax cap? Consider what will be lost if sharp cuts have to be made to the school budgets in East Hampton.

New York, it’s a wonderful place to spend your golden years — if you mind these few dos and don’ts, that is.

What we did in April 1985 at Columbia University was righteous. 

The kerfuffles surrounding the Hedges and Huntting Inns in East Hampton Village point to a longstanding problem: Old-line businesses that do not conform with zoning laws are getting bigger.

Two columns in one: from Palm Springs to NPR’s Uri Berliner.

Here on the narrow end of Long Island between the bays and the ocean, the chill lingers longer than elsewhere. Plant carefully.

When ubiquitous smartphones put a crimp in important proceedings.

There have been bitter complaints lately on social media about the trash left behind after soccer matches, softball games, and pickup basketball in our East Hampton parks.

“Government do take a bite, don’t she.”

Newsreaders and culture mavens were delighted this week to learn that Guild Hall has announced that after two years of work the arts institution will raise the curtain on a fully renovated John Drew Theater in July.

On the occasion of the wartime opening of the extended nature trail at David’s Lane, a 79-year-old conservationist reminded us why we need the greenery.

Everything I understand about social class in America I learned at a farmers market summer job.

East Hampton Town has a waiting list of more than 450 people seeking affordable senior citizen housing but only 127 apartments. A proposal to allow 12 housing units per acre might increase the supply by a third.

To have order imposed on one who hasn’t been used to it, one who does not feel whole unless stacks of sports pages past surround him, can be traumatic.

This late winter and spring have been wet and wild.

Montauk is in a rough place with the imminent closing of its sole pharmacy.

The eclipse on Monday brought back memories of an eclipse in the 1970s, when I was at “hippie school,” the Hampton Day School in the potato fields of Bridgehampton.

We’re told by experts that burlap wrap isn’t good for some species, especially evergreens, and that it doesn’t in fact actually keep plants warmer.

“You threw out my picture?” Mary asked when I told her my office’s walls were now bare, the floors were bare, the desk was bare.

There was plenty of screaming during my short trip to Nashville last weekend. I had not understood how Music City U.S.A. had become Partytown U.S.A.

Getting hip to women’s college hoops at just the right time.

Americans, by and large, don’t get together out in the elements much anymore.

Memories of 1978 and a final, snowy departure for college upstate.

Just one more Dunkin’ Donuts franchise here would make it right.

While Plum Island remains vulnerable to a sale under the terms of a 2008 act of Congress, we should look to Camp Hero as an example.

Taiwan just got rocked, 30 years ago it was Northridge, California, and it could happen here. What’s it like to ride out the big one?

Is it sacrilegious to nose-poke at church on Easter Sunday?

Spring is here, and as our attention refocuses out of doors, this is a good moment to take a breath and consider the poor birds.

One person’s detritus is another’s precious possession.

Seeing a photograph of a rusted car frame tumbling from a dune recently reminded me of a devastating northeaster 62 years ago.