Editorial
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As Americans, we face an urgent choice at a historic moment
It is up to us, each of us individually and collectively as the body politic, to examine our thoughts and think about the impact of our words before we speak or write them. RiverheadLOCAL editorial.
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Enough is enough: Riverhead must put its foot down with Island Water Park, once and for all
For too long, Riverhead Town has either looked the other way or given Island Water Park a slap on the wrist, no matter how the operator made a mockery out of town law. Here's why that must no longer stand. Editorial.
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Riverhead must enforce its ‘Dark Skies’ code aimed at limiting light pollution
Riverhead Centre was required to comply with the town's 'Dark Skies' code by Dec. 31, 2017. It hasn't. And now officials are considering allowing the NYC company that bought the 50-acre property for $71 million last year to continue to pollute the night skies with bright light.
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Don’t like how charter schools are funded? Then work to fix it
Editorial: The charter school system in New York is broken. The school district, the Town Board and the charter school need to be working together to fix how charter schools are funded instead of feuding with each other.
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Former Grumman site was only a buck, but it was no bargain: Navy must be held accountable for contamination.
Riverhead got the former Grumman site from the federal government for a buck. But it was no bargain. Pollution there threatens private wells and may threaten public water supply too.And the Navy, though legally responsible for cleanup, just keeps dragging its feet.
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The school district censored this comment during a Nov. 14 board meeting. Was it yours?
More than 5 months later, the district finally responded to our records request with this heavily redacted document. Now we're trying to figure out what they didn't want the public to hear and why.
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The buck stops with the board.
School board members don’t have the luxury of blaming departed administrators for budget, faculty and staff cuts. Nor should they, because they hired those administrators and were responsible for their oversight.
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The people have the right to know. We have the right — and the duty — to inform them.
As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote more than a century ago, "Sunshine is the best disinfectant." Cronyism and corruption thrive in the cover of darkness. Our job is to open the blinds and let the sun shine in.
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Facts are pesky things. Reporting them is our job.
If a factual report of the records obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request makes officials unhappy or uncomfortable, we’re sorry but our job as a news organization isn’t to protect their feelings. Our job is to report the facts.
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Hubbard promises a new age of transparency. We’ve got a few suggestions for his to-do list.
Supervisor Tim Hubbard has promised a town government that will reach “a level of transparency…that has not been seen before.” Here's why that's important and what he should do to make this a reality in Riverhead.
