Op Eds

By Will Barclay Living on edge, fearful they could be the next statistic in a surge of criminal activity in communities across the state, this should not be a New Yorker’s story. Unfortunately, following the […]

While interviewing Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida, Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker badgered him about being a hypocrite for supporting lower deficits, while having voted for the Trump tax cuts. The moderator was falsely […]

by Steve Levy How is it that the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan that stared down the Soviet Union is now a party containing a huge faction of isolationists? And what kind of impact will […]

By Steve Levy As a person in his early 60s with some underlying conditions, I sought to be one of the first in line to access the Covid vaccines when they came to market in […]

Chances are, if you’re over forty, you’ve never heard of “Meatball,” but she is quite the craze on Instagram. Meatball is a 20-something woman who likes to share all of her exploits with her fans. […]

It is a commonly held frustration of Long Island residents that our governments seem to always be behind the curve as opposed to ahead of it. Quite regularly we hear the phrase uttered that government “must become proactive rather than reactive.” As […]

For several months, Long Island Life & Politics has been sounding the alarm that Suffolk County is seeking to raise the sales tax at the same time it is sitting on a record $700 million […]

A federal District Court judge has once again declared President Obama‘s 2012 executive order seeking to legalize over one million undocumented youth in this country illegal.  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-judge-declares-daca-illegal-again-issue-likely-to-be-decided-by-supreme-court. Democrats responded by saying, “So what? What are […]

By Steve Levy If you listened to the Secretary General of the United Nations last week, you would have thought that the human species is doomed in the next few decades due to climate change. […]

By Steve Levy Back in May, Long Island Life and Politics was the first to expose the fact that the Bayport-Blue Point Board of Education approved pornographic books to be placed on the high school […]