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We are living in a political reality shaped by Donald Trump’s time-warped 1940s reality, in which power is treated as personal property and loyalty is demanded rather than earned. This worldview has reshaped our civic life through division, intimidation and the deliberate casting of fellow Americans as enemies.
From the start, it was clear how this power would be used. Opponents would be punished. Institutions discredited. Truth would be bent to serve grievance. A segment of the population — angry, fearful and convinced it was under siege — would be mobilized and unleashed …
https://www.27east.com/east-hampton-press/opinion/letters/article_b5830802-07a2-40a6-b2a0-4d8f00031a28.html
Kudos to John Neely, who wrote a letter expressing his frustration with Congressman Nick LaLota regarding issues that included the present administration’s pulling funding in several states which aids students with hearing and vision loss [“A Few Questions,” Letters, December 22].
Last November, I too wrote to Mr. LaLota both as a parent and an advocate of my organization, AHRC, which aids and supports among the most vulnerable of us: the developmentally disabled population. …
https://www.27east.com/east-hampton-press/opinion/letters/article_41d2216c-2776-4d9a-b335-95f6e4b9e68a.html
Living in the never-ending reality show: Every morning feels like stepping onto a roller-coaster you didn’t agree to ride.
You wake up, turn on the news and brace yourself. What did the president say today? What new shock, what new threat, what new performance designed to keep the spotlight fixed squarely on him?
The country isn’t being governed — it’s being produced. We’re not citizens anymore. We’re an audience. …
https://www.27east.com/east-hampton-press/opinion/letters/article_524ab6a8-4226-4f32-aed8-27cba5d77efa.html
Recently, I read two pieces of good news: A federal judge lifted the stop-work order on Sunrise Wind, making it 0-5 in the administration's effort to kill East Coast offshore wind projects that are already in construction; and another federal judge found illegal the secret panel of climate change deniers that the administration assembled in order to try and overturn a key finding on climate change, that it endangers human health.
Governor Kathy Hochul has been supporting offshore wind, and offshore wind will bring clean power to the East End. But she has been backsliding on New York's other renewable energy goals. A judge actually ruled that the state is violating its own law by not releasing rules on schedule for the Clean Air Initiative, which will fund electrification infrastructure and homeowner upgrades …
https://www.27east.com/east-hampton-press/opinion/letters/article_4d2ab04f-cbd7-45b7-8ca9-96d6c94814d8.html
As you all remember reading in the newspapers and watching on television, the slogan "Make America Great Again," the slogan used by our present sitting president as he campaigned for the office of president of the United States of America — I thought that America was great already!
The bombing of boats off Venezuela and killing of people, and then the use of the military to capture the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and his first lady, and then taking their oil and oil ships, which did not belong to the United States — I ask, how is that making America great again? …
https://www.27east.com/east-hampton-press/opinion/letters/article_1cfd5e78-ca31-46fe-a037-dc74a5d0e2bd.html
“Tissue of lies” is a term I've always found deliciously descriptive. It comes from the French “tissu,” meaning a fabric of different interwoven materials; hence, a story composed of closely related falsehoods, a complex, interconnected fiction.
I can’t think of a better term to describe Ron Fisher’s recent letter attacking Southampton Democratic Chairman Gordon Herr [“A New Table,” February 5]. It is a classic tissue of lies. …
https://www.27east.com/east-hampton-press/opinion/letters/article_e7d58ddb-2697-4137-8025-c92872922326.html
Considering recent historically low poll numbers, and special election results, it is clear to most Americans today that trying to convince those MAGA folk who still support the dangerous incompetence and illegal behavior of the current criminal administration and its leader (a convicted felon) that it is time for them to go is a waste of time and energy.
If January 6, the pardoning of all the insurrectionists, the elimination of USAID, the hundreds of losing lawsuits, the cruel, baseless threats to elected officials (simple-minded political retribution), the gestapo-like tactics of ICE, the elimination of expertise and legitimacy in the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Defense (War?), the lawless bombing and unauthorized brutal killing in …
https://www.27east.com/east-hampton-press/opinion/letters/article_e71c7a36-bf23-4dcc-9f1f-6790ebb9f4c2.html
President Donald Trump’s denial about climate change has led to the repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which identified greenhouse gases as a threat to public health. Additionally, climate assessment efforts by the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration and NASA have been reduced.
Climate change exists; key facts include: …
https://www.27east.com/east-hampton-press/opinion/letters/article_0d4a964d-c8c5-4fdd-8335-5db98afed46e.html
Congressman Nick LaLota does not have the courage to meet his constituents in a live town hall meeting. So, in my last letter [“A Few Questions,” Letters, January 19], I asked Mr. LaLota some questions and requested that he respond in these pages. But, apparently, he couldn’t even go that far.
And some of the topics were really pretty easy to address. Like, how does the congressman feel about the president withholding education funding from deaf/blind students? Deaf/blind kids! There’s really only one answer here.
But I am not giving up on the congressman. So here is a little quiz for Mr. LaLota. …
https://www.27east.com/east-hampton-press/opinion/letters/article_134b3e8e-bd59-42fc-a377-212c2fc56ba9.html

Local News

The freezing winter has taken a harsh toll on Long Island's harbors, canals and marinas, leaving towns and villages with big bills to repair damaged docks and pilings. …
WHAT NEWSDAY FOUND
- The frigid winter has wreaked havoc on Long Island's harbors, canals and marinas, shooting pilings out of canals and seabeds.
- Southampton trustees authorized an ice emergency, allowing for a quicker review of permits so docks can be secured.
- Some towns and villages use icebreaking techniques, such as bubblers. But in several cases the technology was no match for the frigid temperatures.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/towns/winter-dock-piling-damage-a8qe8si0?utm_medium=web_share_api&utm_campaign=web_share_api

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