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Dec 12, 2025

Worst Of The Worst Exposes New York’s Bail Failure

Welcome to a neighborhood near you: New York’s worst of the worst.

Dec 12, 2025

Letters to the Editor Crime Is on the Minds of Many

Crimes do have consequences.

Dec 12, 2025

Are My New York Power of Attorney and Health Care Proxy Valid Out of State?

How will your proxies be treated if you travel out of state?

Dec 9, 2025

Hochul’s New York: Crime, Chaos, and Decline

New York needs sweeping gubernatorial change.

Dec 5, 2025

Riders, Businesses Blast MTA Waste and LIRR Neglect

Letters to the Editor

Dec 5, 2025

Financial Control Board for the MTA

High time for a financial control board to stop the waste, fraud, and abuse at the MTA.

Dec 5, 2025

Long Island Deserves Better Than the MTA’s Failures

It’s time to slay the MTA vampire.

Nov 30, 2025

Decision on the Biden Autopen

If Joe Biden didn’t really sign it as president, does it really count?

Nov 28, 2025

The Electric Bills Are Too Damn High

South Shore Press Letter to the Editor

Nov 26, 2025

Repeal the All-Electric Building Act

Everyone knows the state’s all-electric mandate will be a disaster.

Nov 26, 2025

Governor Ignores Pending Energy Disaster

State electrification plan could doom Long Island.

Nov 17, 2025

From the Newsroom: What I am Grateful For

With Thanksgiving now just a week away, there is no better time to reflect on, and share, the gifts for which I am most deeply thankful:

Nov 16, 2025

Eugene V. Debs had big wins on Election Day!

The dark shadow of socialism will soon block out the sun over the Big Apple.

Nov 11, 2025

Long Island: The Last Bastion of Freedom in a Failing New York

Well, my friends, the votes were cast and the outcome was clear: Zohran Mamdani had seized control of New York City. When I looked at that result, I didn’t see a victory for common sense — I saw the beginning of a collapse.

Nov 10, 2025

From the Newsroom: Thank You Veterans!

Every November 11th, our great nation honors the men and women who have worn the uniform of the United States of America.

Nov 2, 2025

Burner Prudenti Law: What Should I Know About Being an Executor?

Q: My friend told me that she wants to name me as executor in her Will. Is there anything I should know before I agree?

Nov 2, 2025

General Ulysses S. Grant and the Defeat of the Confederates at Chattanooga

“Your [Gen. Grant’s] dispatches as to fighting on Monday & Tuesday are here. Well done. Many thanks to all.” — President Abraham Lincoln

Oct 30, 2025

Musings From the VA Hospital Waiting Room

“Thank You For Your Service.” That is what this South Shore Press reporter heard over and over as she accompanied her dad through the VA Hospital.

Oct 29, 2025

Joe Exotic "The Tiger King" Writes to Santos and the SSP

We had spent some time talking before you went to prison and at that time I might have seemed like I was just another convict complaining about being abused or treated less then human while being here.

Oct 27, 2025

George Santos: Zohran Mamdani is a Full Blown Socialist

And socialists don’t build; they bleed. They drain the life out of every city they touch. Look around at every place where their ideas take root: businesses flee, families struggle, and the middle class becomes an endangered species.

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Education

Stony Brook students blend fitness and ecology in 3K EcoWalk

Stony Brook University students participated in the "Running Wild 3K EcoWalk," a new Earthstock event conducted on April 21 at the Ashley Schiff Preserve.


Sports

Are The Mets Going with a Youth Movement?

It’s hard to believe that the New York Mets, with a billionaire owner, might opt for a youth movement after spending so much on a star player like Juan Soto just last season, but that nightmare might become a reality for Amazin’ fans.


Sports

Bowl Season Brings Value

The new landscape of college football has brought many changes, and the transfer portal has significantly affected bowl games. More and more players are opting out of bowl games if their teams aren’t in the College Football Playoff, and while that is disappointing for fans, it gives sports bettors an edge.