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Suffolk CloseupDoing battle with the mighty ocean to protect our changing coastline is futile as ‘hand-wrestling with God’
Other coastal communities around the world are working to adapt to rising sea levels or relocate. But for Suffolk, the federal government is poised to spend more than $1 billion to take on the mighty Atlantic Ocean.
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Suffolk CloseupComing together: an antidote to hate
Getting to know one another as people, rather than stereotypes, is the key to ending racial strife in America.
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Suffolk Closeup What will become of Long Island’s only daily newspaper?
The $17.7 billion acquisition of Cablevision by Netherlands-based Altice last month has left the fate of Long Island's only daily newspaper uncertain.
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Suffolk CloseupIn a world full of hazards, turtles find safe haven and healing in Jamesport
Cars, bulldozers, boat propellers, fishing line, pesticides, weed-killers and other chemicals. It's tough being a turtle on Long Island.
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Waiting for what’s next: squirming, finger-pointing after county police chief’s plea deal with federal prosecutors
Accusations, I-told-you-sos, and demands for resignations followed the plea deal by Suffolk's ex-chief of police James Burke.
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Dowling College: a sad event in the history of higher education in Suffolk
The announcement last week of the closure of Dowling College in Oakdale, preceded a decade ago by the closure of Southampton College, are sad...
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Suffolk CloseupCelebrating Long Island’s most famous native, Walt Whitman
What we can (still) learn from Long Island's most famous native.
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Suffolk Closeup Here we go again: Cuomo’s clean energy plan, despite goals for renewables, wrongheadedly boosts nuclear power
Even as the New York State's proposed energy plan calls for a 50 percent reliance on renewable energy by 2030, the governor has embraced nuclear power, advocating the continued operation of two nuclear plants upstate.
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Long Island still waiting for utility reform
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2013 "reform" package missed the mark by a wide margin, hitching Long Island's energy future to a utility company that's as bad as LIPA, if not worse. Opinion column by Karl Grossman
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Suffolk Closeup Suffolk office of public accountability? Proposal comes not a moment too soon
Legislator Kara Hahn's bill — still in the works — would create a county office to investigate corruption in county government in a county that has a long tradition of corruption.
