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At least the federal government’s Santa tracker remained after a partial government shutdown last week, forced by President Trump’s stubborn insistence that Congress allocate $5 billion in funding for his wall to separate the United States and Mexico. more

1/4/19

Some personal notes on the 'perfect American'

I first heard the news that the Iraqi military had rolled into Kuwait on Aug. 3, 1990, the day after the invasion. I can’t forget that moment. I was watching over 9- and 10-year-old boys at the … more

12/4/18

Technologists beware: ‘The Matrix’ may be nigh

In the dystopian world of the 1999 science-fiction drama “The Matrix,” extended kung fu battles, rapid-fire gunfights and chase scenes involving all manner of vehicles overshadow a deeper message . . . more

11/16/18

Is there really a ‘women’s vote’?

I’m obviously not a woman, so I’m not the best person to parse the so-called “women’s vote.” But I’ll try. I’m covering my 25th general election this year . . . more

10/26/18

The Star-Spangled Banner, the flag, flying high above Fort McHenry.

An attorney’s scribblings became a national anthem

I had no idea. "The Star-Spangled Banner” was first written as poetry and then, soon after, set to music — an English drinking song, to be precise. Yes, the tune behind our national anthem . . . more

10/5/18

Walt Whitman, I celebrate thee!

My stomach was churning furiously. The Press Club of Long Island’s first-ever poetry reading on Aug. 23 was to begin in a half-hour at the Huntington Station birthplace of the unparalleled poet and journalist Walt Whitman. Would anyone show? I wondered. more

9/14/18

Nellie Bly: She came, she wrote, she conquered

Newspaper writer Erasmus Wilson was, no doubt, an über-male chauvinist. In an 1885 Pittsburgh Dispatch column, he joked that American families should kill their baby girls, as was common in China then. more

8/24/18

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is now at work on the $11.1 billion East Side Access Project, which will bring Long Island Rail Road service to Grand Central Terminal for the first time.

East Side Access transforming the LIRR

On a plain wall between tracks 113 and 114, a plywood door separates old from new at Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. It is the inconspicuous entrance to the Metropolitan Transportation … more

By Scott Brinton | 8/21/18

Katarina Meze, center, a doctoral student at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Watson School of Biological Sciences, recently led Herald staffers and interns on a tour of the 117-acre lab. Listening in were, from left, interns Zoe Malin, Alicia McGowan, Nia Matthews and Justin Zion.

Cold Spring Harbor Lab: Where science, technology and art meet

Educators from the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences started to gather in Cold Spring Harbor in 1890 to conduct marine biology studies and hold classes over the summer, living in cottages and … more

By Scott Brinton | 8/8/18

These Stoneman Douglas survivors really got to me

Journalists are a hard-bitten lot. Internalize the emotions of your stories and you could end up jaded and angry, or worse, a drug addict. That would be good for no one. As a reporter, you record … more

8/2/18

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