"Another dramatic dispute has been unfolding in Southampton, one that’s somehow both quite serious and quite delicious. The Shinnecock Indian Nation, which predated the elite New Yorkers’ presence in the area by centuries, has been erecting two six-story, electronic billboards along Sunrise Highway (also known as the 27). Local and state officials have been peppering the tribe with complaints and stop-work orders, but the tribe, amazingly, has flatly rejected their jurisdiction. Southampton’s town supervisor told the New York Times that the signs “violate the spirit of our local ordinances meant to protect the rural character of the town,” but Bryan Polite, the tribe’s chairman, responded by saying that the Shinnecocks “don’t recognize their authority on our sovereign lands.” Tribal officials say they need the revenue from the billboards to provide for their members, but 30 local elected officials sent the tribe a letter asking them to, as the supervisor said, “develop other economic engines.” Easier said by a Southampton official than done by a tribe robbed of ancient lands?
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,,, Two: An unbelievable legal fiasco surrounding the U.S. census couldn’t stop Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross from dancing alongside Giuliani at the aforementioned party at the Weymouth home. “However bad you might imagine Rudy’s dance moves might be, he was upstaged by Wilbur, who looked like a skeleton doing the Happy Feet dance,” a source told Page Six.
Buried six feet under Ross’s tapping shoes? The desirability of the Hamptons."
