Some years back, I caved to familial pressure and agreed to bring a dog into our household. I had always had dogs while growing up — abroad — and they had enriched my life and the lives of others around the family. What I had not reckoned with was the paucity of facilities for dogs in Nassau County and its towns.
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1/20/10
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What are the editorial pages about?
Who writes editorials?
How do letters and guest columns get published?
These graphics offer some answers.
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12/31/09
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Keep pets indoorsTo the Editor: In the article “Cats taken from I.P.” (Nov. 19-25), Fran Bronzin is quoted as saying, "You don't realize how much you love them until they're gone.” …
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11/26/09
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I wish to make a modest proposal. Sometime in the next week, please write a letter. I want to prove that most of us have not lost the capacity and the will to compose our thoughts and commit them to paper, in our own hand, using a real pen.
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Randi Kreiss
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11/12/09
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When Howard Kalachman was a soldier on sandbag duty at a U.S. army base in Vietnam, he was struck by a 200-pound piece of pressed steel plate flung from a helicopter propeller that, had it hit …
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JOSEPH KELLARD
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11/12/09
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To the Editor: First, I congratulate your newspaper on the new design of your Web site. It is intuitive, well-designed, and much improved over the previous version.
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10/29/09
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