Pomp and happy circumstances

May 11, 2008

Melinda and Diane Harvey of Huntington are storming the well-stocked aisles of Estelle's Dressy Dresses in Farmingdale. They're looking for extra-special Mother's Day outfits.

Recent columns

• At Huntington shelter, underdogs are the top dogs

  May 8, 2008

  This one's for the underdog.

• A conversation with Gov. David A. Paterson

  May 6, 2008

  A conversation with Gov. David A. Paterson

• Don't let lawn obsession override Earth consideration

  May 4, 2008

  It was well into a warm, dark evening when members of the venerable Nassau Hiking & Outdoor Club filed into a room at Eisenhower Park for a lesson in building the perfect Long Island lawn.

• 'The Fixer' turns around a troubled nursing home

  May 2, 2008

  Suffolk County wants to close its public nursing home, while Nassau County is planning to build a new one.

• Miley posed, but the adults should be ashamed

  April 29, 2008

  Dear Miley,

• Miley posed, but adults should be ashamed

  April 28, 2008

  Dear Miley,

• Home is where the heart aches

  April 27, 2008

  Sag Harbor welcomed Jordan Haerter home on a cool spring afternoon.

• Taxpayers to pay $100G pension of county employee

  April 24, 2008

  The conversation with state pension system specialist E.J. McMahon, director of the Empire Center for New York State Policy (a conservative think tank), about Nassau's Karl Kampe went something like this yesterday:

• Sharing a kneel with the future of the church

  April 20, 2008

  It's dark outside and except for one lamp, the only illumination comes from votive candles, set side by side in the shape of two crosses. Incense hangs in the air; and on both sides of the altar, banners carry the Greek symbols for alpha and omega.

• Students putting thoughts on paper? Write on!

  April 17, 2008

  OMG.

• Why and how mean more than who in pension scandal

  April 15, 2008

  The Nassau County comptroller's office ought to be going after the more than $100,000 it put toward Albert D'Agostino's fat state pension.

• Easy solutions for a guilt-free green environment

  April 13, 2008

  Paper or plastic?

• Brown: Journalism learned through Greene's passion

  April 11, 2008

  Bob Greene came between me and my husband.

• She puts her heart into saving lives

  April 10, 2008

  Call her Julie Appleseed.

• Broadwater debate needs more 'What's in it for us?'

  April 8, 2008

  Gov. David A. Paterson is promising a decision on Broadwater before the week ends.

• State pension scandal a costly one - for us

  April 6, 2008

  We do not believe this is merely a case of innocent mistakes or misunderstandings," the New York State attorney general's office was saying last week.

• Nassau Democrats feud over raisingtheir pay

  April 3, 2008

  For the love of money and power.

• Lots of talk, but no solutions for day laborers

  April 1, 2008

  More than a dozen television cameras stretched along the side of a conference room in Suffolk County police headquarters in Yaphank yesterday.

• In case of black and white, nobody wins

  March 20, 2008

  Race had nothing to do with the case of John White. Let's pretend that's true.

• Students at Center give Paterson sign of approval

  March 18, 2008

  David A. Paterson was about to become governor.

• For Suozzi, Spitzer scandal provides a lesson

  March 13, 2008

  'It's time to stand up to Fix Albany," he said, to cheers from a throng of eager supporters, "and make New York the Empire State again."

• Spitzer slips into the background

  March 11, 2008

  Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the governor who set himself up as Mr. Clean and stepped forward to fix Albany, in the end has slipped off into the background like a coward.

• Tide turns against Trump's castle in sand

  March 6, 2008

  All together now, breathe.

• Finding the hidden reasons for our high taxes

  March 4, 2008

  And now for today's installment of Long Island Tax Dollars at Work.

• Agency slammed door shut on three kids' deaths

  February 26, 2008

  County officials who not long ago boasted of Nassau's commitment to its neediest ought to be hanging their heads in shame.

• Agency slammed door on 3 kids

  February 25, 2008

  County officials who not long ago boasted of Nassau's commitment to its neediest ought to be hanging their heads in shame.

• Our schools are a big business with big troubles

  February 21, 2008

  And so it grows, with today's installment of lawyers, law firms, school districts, school board members and superintendents caught in the glare of public scrutiny.

• Children again lost in district legal shuffle

  February 19, 2008

  Children.

• There's more to the story

  December 23, 2007

  "I crossed the color line a long time ago," John White told me in one of the few informal conversations we had in the hallway during courtroom breaks during his trial in Riverhead.

• How can syringe misuse, lack of data happen now?

  November 15, 2007

  Hepatitis killed my mother.

• This place needs change to be great

  January 25, 2007

  More and more residents on Long Island, home of the nation's first postwar suburb, say it's harder than ever to pay the mortgage. That's hard to imagine. But the data are right there on page 4 of this year's Long Island Index report.

• Embracing King's radical message

  January 16, 2007

  Now might be a good time to cut Martin Luther King Jr. back down to size.

• Driver's widow describes a love story

  October 4, 2006

  Rita Rabinowitz took her daughter's hand, holding tight as the DVD began to play before a crowded, hushed courtroom. And there, as she sat watching, she saw her husband's death just as he saw it that night -- through his eyes, from the front of the limousine in which he died.

• Loss of more than a child

  September 12, 2006

  Jennifer and Neil Flynn skipped breakfast yesterday, hours before testimony began in the trial of a man charged with second-degree murder in the death of their eldest child, 7-year-old Katie.

• Only right step is to step down from district

  August 8, 2006

  Richard Hawkins ought to rethink his decision not to step down as superintendent of the William Floyd school district. And he ought to take some school board members with him.

• For Rice, it's broom for change

  August 1, 2006

  The question for Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice yesterday was: Are you the witch critics say you are?

• At long last, NUMC sees some heroes

  July 21, 2006

  Let's say you want to mess with the Roosevelt School District. You have to get past State Assemb. Earlene Hooper and State Sen. Charles Fuschillo.

• Nassau first passes blame, now buck

  April 25, 2006

  Nassau County Attorney Lorna Goodman says she won't use county taxpayers' money to pay a $63,000 legal bill, the highest to come out of a bitter fight settled more than two months ago over the leadership in the county legislature.

• Keep these kids stationed here

  April 20, 2006

  'This club has kept me off the street and kept me out of the gang."

• Stereotypes all over this case

  April 19, 2006

  A rich kid. A white boy. A jock. Collin Finnerty, one of Long Island's own, was arrested early yesterday on charges of raping and kidnapping a black stripper hired to dance at an off-campus party.

• Bearing witness, baring hard truths

  March 28, 2006

  Every elected official on Long Island should be required to drop by the trial of Wayne Prospect, the former Suffolk County legislator turned consultant extraordinaire.

• A Cradle with links to history

  March 23, 2006

  Kathy Wojcieszak left her long white scarf at the Cradle of Aviation museum in Mitchel Field almost three years ago. It was still there yesterday, streaming behind a pilot in a plane hanging from the lobby's ceiling.

• First step toward solution

  March 9, 2006

  Mr. Levy went to Washington this week. And he took a collection of officials who merit serious consideration from President George W. Bush.

• Students are the principal concern

  February 28, 2006

  What happened in Vermont didn't stay in Vermont.

• Tom assures Nassau's not out of sight

  February 26, 2006

  Someone called with a suggestion recently for a two-page graphic in the center of Newsday: A state map showing every stop Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi has made campaigning for governor.

• In Nassau, no work, all pay

  February 2, 2006

  The Nassau County Legislature has given us a month of nothing.

• Suozzi's revving up for whole new race

  November 15, 2005

  "Buckle up."