Keating: Don't extend Suffolk sales tax, cut it

August 20, 2007

Do overburdened taxpayers on Long Island have anyone on their side?

Recent columns

• Keating: Harry Potter and the Christian allegory

  August 13, 2007

  It's the summer of Potter. Should Christians be pleased or worried?

• Memo raises legitimate Suffolk open-space issues

  August 6, 2007

  'Diabolical"? "An abomination"?

• Raymond J. Keating: Eisenhower Red Course must be walked

  July 30, 2007

  OK, local government officials have ticked me off again.

• 'Volunteering in America' report praises suburbia

  July 23, 2007

  Suburbia too often gets a bum rap.

• Thankfully, WCBS-FM does it again

  July 16, 2007

  I cheered the return of WCBS/101.1 FM and the oldies last week. But a few things are bugging me.

• Your play: World Series of Poker or the lottery?

  July 9, 2007

  What's the difference between poker and the state lottery?

• NY pols driving us on roads to ruin

  July 2, 2007

  Far too many New York State politicians practice what amounts to a kind of political masochism.

• State should privatize tracks, OTB

  June 4, 2007

  Street Sense rallied from next to last to win the Kentucky Derby on May 5. But the colt lost by a nose to Curlin two weeks later at the Preakness. So hope that the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978 might gallop to victory Saturday at the Belmont Stakes was lost.

• Dems wrong in not backing troops

  May 28, 2007

  Memorial Day could be the strangest holiday on the calendar. After all, it's supposed to be about honoring those who died defending our country, yet it also marks the unofficial start of summer with barbecues, baseball and the beach.

• Is Hillary a centrist? Let's look at her votes

  November 14, 2005

  President Bill Clinton was elected in 1992, and I'm still trying to figure out exactly what a "New Democrat" is. Specifically, was the phrase anything more than a cynical Clintonian effort to make liberal Democrats appear more moderate?