BILL'S COLUMN

Remember when it was all piss and giggles and NYPD escorts?  Andy and Fergie.  (Fergie and Andy, really.) All about town - Elaine’s, Mellon’s, The Mad Hatter...  Wow, is that gone! The former Duchess of York is a dumpster fire and the “de-duked” Duke is likely going straight to Hell. What a shame.  They were fun.  Fergie’s a tragic story, but Andrew's a monster. And a dumb one at that.  The once dashing jetsetter did something really wrong. Then he made it worse.   He blew th

Dear all, After eleven years, I've decided to take a break from writing a regular column. Feeling a bit stale. I can't thank you - and...

Newsday link A reporter left a message on Thursday morning. “You know why I’m calling,” he said. “Give me a ring back when you get a...

Newsday link Chances are you know something about Doris “Dorie” Miller, even if you don’t know his name. If you’ve seen any of the Pearl...

Newsday link No one needed to announce that marijuana sales are beginning to roll out in New York State; a simple whiff of the air will...

Newsday link With a few races still to be decided across New York State, we pick through the detritus of Tuesday’s elections for lessons...

Newsday link It was hard not to smile when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis redirected a few dozen immigrants from Venezuela to uber-liberal...

Newsday link So much has been written about the power of Anne Frank’s diary that I hesitate to weigh in on it for fear of doing it...

Newsday link. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi caused quite a commotion this week. Her visit to Taiwan infuriated China, ruffled feathers...

Newsday link Political hoopla out of New Jersey. Centrists there have created a third party line to great fanfare — the Moderate Party —...

Newsday link Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has a lovely home. It’s a modest white clapboard Dutch Colonial in suburban Maryland...

Newsday link A bill kicking around the State Legislature for the past several years is gathering a head of steam in the final weeks of...

Newsday link A couple of months back, nursing eight broken ribs from a farcical accident involving a sled, a 10-year-old kid made of...

Newsday link It’s not unusual for an addict to make a catastrophic mess of his life, but Hunter Biden’s case may be one for the record...

Newsday link "Toto, we’re home — home! And this is my room — and you’re all here — and I’m not going to leave here ever, ever again,...

Newsday link An idiot classmate devised a lucrative scam in ninth grade. For $3 and a round trip to the city, he’d "cop" a gram of...

Newsday Link I had quite forgotten about The Times Square Ripper. Netflix jogged my memory with its new "Crime Scene" docuseries. I had...

Newsday link "She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on...

Best-selling author Alice Sebold heartfully apologized to a man last week for mistakenly identifying him as her assailant in a 1982 rape...

Newsday link Remember when "political correctness" was a serious term? Not all of us do. We’re going back 35 years, and it only lasted...