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Sunshine covers the beautiful beaches surrounding Long Island, begging to be inhabited and enjoyed. Instead, many people are choosing to get that sun-kissed look in a plastic tube surrounded by bright ultraviolet bulbs.

Now New York has some of the strictest laws in the country regarding indoor tanning for minors after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Monday, making it illegal for anyone under...

One of Westchester County’s worst bridges isn’t likely to lose that dubious honor anytime soon.

Despite calls for expedited rehabilitation of the crumbling Ashford Avenue Bridge — which crosses over the New York State Thruway and Saw Mill River Parkway — it doesn’t sound like it’s going to be fast-tracked very much before its 2015 start date for construction.

County Executive Rob Astorino...

Woody Guthrie would have been 100 years old today, July 14. That’s a fact likely to mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people, and nothing at all to a whole bunch of folks. But Woody Guthrie led me to my first revelation about how much school was about conformity and indoctrination, and how little it was about true knowledge, and real learning.

Guthrie was a folk singer and...

America is a rich country, with ample money for pointless wars, tax breaks for the rich, and the world’s most wasteful health care system. But the one thing we can’t afford is happiness for a few dozen visually impaired old people.

Newsday reported today that, for want of funds, a charity called Helen Keller Services for the Blind will close two senior programs, in Huntington and Hempstead,...

If you’re one of the many frustrated drivers who all too often sees some dope driving while texting behind the wheel, then you should appreciate that New York State has had a four-fold increase in such violations.

That is, more people are getting busted for a reckless habit that could cost lives.

Thanks to a strengthening  of the law, police have more power to pull over a driver...

Sometimes less really is more--for instance, next year, when the ceremony at Ground Zero marking the eleventh anniversary of the 9-11 attacks will be limited to family members reading the names of the victims.   There’s an elegant simplicity in that approach announced Wednesday in a letter from the National September 11 Memorial & Museum to relatives of the victims. It just feels right,...

Imagine suing somebody for failing to stop you from having a romance.

A Massapequa woman has had the nerve to file legal notice that she will sue Nassau County for $10 million because it failed to supervise a police officer who spent "over 100 nights" with her while on-duty.

Talk about chutzpah! It should be noted that the plaintiff-to-be, Tara Obenauer, seems to have consented...

It's been said that evil occurs when good people do nothing.

But confronted with allegations of child sex abuse against Jerry Sandusky, who'd been defensive coordinator in Penn State University's vaunted football program, school officials "repeatedly concealed critical facts" in addition to doing nothing to protect his young victims. Those are the findings, anyway, of an independent...

Despite a host of pressing national problems, House Republicans today voted for the 33rd time to repeal President Obama's health care law.

Five Democrats joined them. Like the previous 32 votes, this one won't have any effect, since Obama and the Democrats who control the Senate won't budge. But is this really the absurd waste of time it seems?

Perhaps it's just a very slow learning...

The creation of the Consumer Protection Bureau in the backwash of the 2008 financial implosion made congressional Republicans apoplectic. They were so intent on gutting its power that 44 GOP senators refused to confirm any director unless the bureau was first “restructured” into oblivion — a  strategy that failed. So what is that feared hotbed of anti-market consumer radicalism up to in...