Southampton Hospital Gives A Preview Of Its Financial Outlook
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Brandon B. Quinn on Feb 11, 2014
For Southampton Hospital, 2013 was an ideal year to highlight the paradox of hospital finances in a changing industry, according to preliminary end-of-year budget numbers. “I don’t really know how... more
A years-long, oft-thwarted effort to create new zip codes for dozens of small communities around the country — including Flanders, Northampton and Riverside — won the approval of the U.S. House of Representatives this week, and may stand its best chance yet to become law. U.S. Representative Nick LaLota, who co-sponsored the House bill, celebrated its passage — by a unanimous vote — as a step toward fixing the hardships that residents of the South Fork hamlets without zip codes have endured for decades. “The passage of today’s bill moves the communities of Riverside, Northampton and Flanders closer to achieving ...
by Michael Wright
Bruce McDaniel Babcock of Bridgehampton and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, died on December 14. He was 83. A complete obituary will appear in a future edition.
16 Dec 2024 by Staff Writer
The Eugenics Record Office at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research facility in Suffolk County, which operated from 1910 to 1939, was pivotal to the spread of eugenics through the United States and the world, as detailed in a forthcoming book by Mark A. Torres, “Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics: Station of Intolerance.” Ultimately discredited as a pseudoscience, eugenics “aimed to develop a master race of human beings,” notes Torres. On its website, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in a section labeled “History,” has an essay on a “historical perspective on genetics” headlined: “Good genes, bad science.” ...
by Karl Grossman
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Brandon B. Quinn on Feb 11, 2014