Guest Columns

By Marilyn Elie Closing a nuclear power plant requires attention to detail. In the case of Indian Point, this responsibility rests with the state Decommissioning Oversight Board. Composed of representatives from many different state agencies, the board considers what the owner

By Anshul Gupta The most recent reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, prepared and reviewed by thousands of scientists and experts from 195 countries, spell a grim climate prognosis after decades of inaction by governments caused in large part by the well-documented campaigns of denial, doubt and delay by the fossil

By Matt Slater On Jan. 1, I will begin a new role representing Yorktown – in addition to neighboring communities in Westchester and Putnam counties – as your voice in the New York State Assembly. While I will be representing

By Michael Gold The governors of Texas and Florida decided to give themselves early Christmas presents by shipping thousands of immigrants from Latin America to New York, Massachusetts and Washington D.C. earlier this year. Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas claimed

By Alan D. Bergman Perhaps 2023 is when you finally decide to devote time to writing your memoir or autobiography. It may sound illogical or, at the very least, counterintuitive but interviewing others will go a long way toward capturing

By John Ravitz Is there anyone who is not in favor of improving the climate of our nation and the globe? Of course not. That’s the easy part. The more vexing questions are how and how quickly can we reach

By Michael Gold We have poisoned our politics to such a degree that it is becoming extremely difficult to look at our current system of government as an ongoing conversation between competing interests who compromise to help advance the nation’s