Episodes

  • Schools Brace for Immigration Crackdown's Impact on Students

    Schools Brace for Immigration Crackdown's Impact on Students
    Jan 30 2025
    South Fork school districts are reporting increased levels of anxiety among students and their families, and schools are planning how to support students while also doing everything they can to prepare for any number of different scenarios and crisis-level situations that could play out as a result of the immigration crackdown. Reporter Cailin Riley joins the editors to share what school administrators are doing to prepare and to assuage student's worries
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    35 mins
  • Head Coach Herm Lamison Reflects on 500 Career Wins

    Head Coach Herm Lamison Reflects on 500 Career Wins
    Jan 23 2025
    Southampton High School varsity basketball head coach Herm Lamison joins the editors to discuss his coaching career on the heels of reaching a milestone that few coaches do: 500 career wins.
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    24 mins
  • Assessing the Impact of the Community Housing Fund | The Sessions Report

    Assessing the Impact of the Community Housing Fund | The Sessions Report
    Jan 17 2025
    A new half percent tax on real estate purchases in Southampton and East Hampton towns went into effect on April 1, 2023, to raise revenue for affordable housing initiatives. Since then, each town has accumulated millions of dollars to combat the region’s housing crisis. At this Express Sessions discussion, a panel of elected officials and housing advocates assessed how successful the Community Housing Fund has been at tackling a seemingly insurmountable task and discuss the promise the fund holds for the future. In this Sessions Report podcast, Express New Group Publisher Gavin Menu, Executive Editor Joseph Shaw and Managing Editor Bill Sutton share the main takeaways from the discussion.
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    43 mins
  • Bracing for Promised Mass Deportation, With OLA's Minerva Perez

    Bracing for Promised Mass Deportation, With OLA's Minerva Perez
    Jan 16 2025
    Minerva Perez, the executive director of latino advocacy organization OLA of Eastern Long Island, joins the editors to discuss the challenges the East End's immigrant population faces and how they are bracing for a new presidential administration promising mass deportation.
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    58 mins
  • A Night at the Debutante Ball

    A Night at the Debutante Ball
    Jan 9 2025
    Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a debutante? Recently, our reporter Cailin Riley found out for herself when she attended the 70th anniversary International Debutante Ball which was held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on December 28. Among the several young ladies “coming out” that evening was Southampton summer resident Kelli Ford, daughter of Gerald and Kelli Ford.
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    47 mins
  • The Top 10 South Fork Stories of 2024

    The Top 10 South Fork Stories of 2024
    Dec 26 2024
    The editors look back on the ten biggest stories of the last year.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Ethics Board Finds Violations

    Ethics Board Finds Violations
    Dec 16 2024
    The Southampton Village Ethics Board last month found that Southampton Village Trustee Robin Brown violated the village's ethics code on two occasions, each time by attending a fundraiser while not paying her own way. Brown has strongly pushed back on the Ethics Board's dispositions and says the complaints against her were politically motivated. On this week's 27Speaks podcast, the editors discuss ethics in government and journalism, and what constitutes a violation.
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    51 mins
  • Lance Gumbs on the Shinnecock Nation's Westwoods Gas Station and Travel Plaza

    Lance Gumbs on the Shinnecock Nation's Westwoods Gas Station and Travel Plaza
    Dec 9 2024
    Lance Gumbs, the vice chairman of the Shinnecock Nation Council of Trustees, recently spoke to Express News Group Executive Editor Joseph Shaw about the Shinnecock Nation's gas station and travel plaza, which is currently under construction on the Shinnecock's Westwoods property just west of the Shinnecock Canal. While the Shinnecock say Westwoods is aboriginal land and may be developed as they wish, some Hamptons Bays residents say that is not the case and town zoning should apply. In this week's podcast, Shaw shares highlights from the interview and adds context.
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    48 mins