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Suffolk Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. Joins Fighting Chance Board
October 23, 2022
Dan's Papers

Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. was appointed to the board of directors of Fighting Chance, a Sag Harbor-based nonprofit that provides free professional counseling services to cancer patients and caregivers on the East End.

He will be able to share unique insights as a two-time cancer survivor, having successfully battled Hodgkin’s lymphoma and pancreatic cancer.

“This is known as peer-to-peer counseling, and we see this as an area where Sheriff Toulon can make an exceptionally valuable contribution,” said Duncan Darrow, who founded Fighting Chance in 2002 and serves as its chairman.read more

Letitia A. James for New York's attorney general
October 22, 2022
Newsday

Letitia A. James is a talented politician. Her terrific interpersonal skills, keen eye for the camera and ear for messaging, and a preternatural instinct for navigating the state’s cutthroat politics have served her well. Leveraging her base in Brooklyn and her background as a public defender, she won a seat on the New York City Council, and then, as the city’s public advocate, springboarded herself to statewide office. In 2018, she became...read more

Bridget M. Fleming for New York's 1st Congressional District
October 20, 2022
Newsday

New York’s 1st Congressional District is perennially considered one of New York’s — and the nation’s — real swing regions. It is a place of contrasts, between hard right and deep blue, between Hamptons wealth and people striving at the poverty line. In its current configuration, it stretches from the easternmost forks of Long Island to the Nassau County line. It includes farmland, town and village centers desperately in need of housing, and...read more

Kathy C. Hochul for New York governor
October 15, 2022
Newsday

Shortly after Kathy C. Hochul took office 14 months ago, it became clear that New York's first woman governor would have to face multiple state crises in short order. Continuing fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, declining revenue from a sprawling transit system, housing shortages, sharing the burden of migrants crossing faraway borders, and a disturbing uptick in violence of different kinds all greeted her.

Hochul rose to the office by succession after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, elected three times, resigned last year facing impeachment. She quickly moved to meet several political and governmental challenges in a credible way.

Now Hochul seeks a first elected term, and has moderate and pragmatic plans at the ready that encourage us to support her bid.read more

Fred Thiele for New York's 1st Assembly District
October 11, 2022
Newday

Includes North and South Forks, Shelter Island, part of southeast Brookhaven

Fred W. Thiele Jr. has been a fount of legislation since joining the Assembly in 1995, focusing on issues that affect both his East End district and the region in general.

Thiele, 69, of Sag Harbor, was the architect of a bill to fund badly-needed affordable housing programs in the five East End towns. Modeled on his wildly successful Community Preservation Fund, which uses a 2% tax on real estate transfers to preserve land and protect water quality, the new program would levy an additional half-percent real estate transfer tax. Residents in East Hampton, Southampton, and Southold will vote in November on whether to establish such programs in their towns. They should.read more

Steven Englebright for New York's 4th Assembly District
October 11, 2022
Newsday

Includes much of Northwest Brookhaven

This November marks a pivotal moment for Steven Englebright. Beyond his bid for another term in the Assembly he joined in 1992, the Setauket Democrat is fighting for approval of the Clean Air, Clean Water and Green Jobs Bond Act, also on this fall's ballot.

Englebright, chair of the chamber's environmental conservation committee, has many such worthy goals on his agenda.read more