It’s time for a little trash talking
By GREGORY ZELLER // Like millions of other suburban homeowners, Julia-Ann Bodine has had it up to here with raccoons. Specifically, she’s fed up with the mess, sanitation issues and…
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The Debrief: Susan Sadocha helps innocents abroad
As director of one of the U.S. Commerce Department’s 100-plus U.S. Export Assistance Centers, you might say Susan Sadocha is in the foreign intelligence business, with firsthand experience – so…
Schein acquires vet software firm
Henry Schein has picked up right where it left off. After a 2015 marked by numerous domestic and international acquisitions, the Melville-based healthcare products provider has announced its first acquisition…
Adelphi adds neuroscience, supply-chain degrees
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two new Adelphi University degree programs will offer very specific, increasingly important foundations for future professionals. The Garden City school has launched a bachelor’s degree program…
Thomson Reuters eyeing an exit?
News and information giant Thomson Reuters has turned down an allocation of low-cost electricity from the state’s ReCharge NY program that would have lowered operating costs at the company’s Hauppauge data…
Survey: The tech fields have women issues
A new – and still running – survey of women in technology fields finds that 60 percent have experienced unwanted sexual advances on the job, while others report demeaning behavior…
Harris Beach bulks up real estate practice
Harris Beach plans to add five attorneys to its new Suffolk County office, created this month via a merger with Melville firm Brown & Altman. The merger, completed last week,…
Cliffs Notes for the State of the State
By JOHN L. KOMINICKI // Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered his State of the State address on Wednesday, the bones of which had been drip-marketed via 14 “signature proposals” trotted out…
And how about some faster broadband?
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s budget 2016 agenda swelled by another $500 million on Friday, as the governor announced a proposal to improve high-speed Internet access across New York. The 10th initiative…
Mobile ticketing, nicer stations, connectivity
Mobile ticketing may soon make travel on the Long Island Rail Road a little easier. Included in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed $8 billion MTA makeover – the eighth proposal in…
LI economy: Fair to partly cloudy
By GREGORY ZELLER // The regional economy got a little good news on Thursday, as AVZ presented its annual economic survey and opinion poll. The Hauppauge accounting firm’s 22nd annual…
Northwell launches network management platform
By GREGORY ZELLER // Northwell Health is off to a fast start. Just days after it officially rebranded itself, the former North Shore-LIJ Health System announced that it’s forming a…
Codagenix making all the right moves
By GREGOERY ZELLER // A seven-figure Regional Economic Development Council award is set to push an innovative influenza vaccine toward human trials. Codagenix, a 2012 startup cofounded by Farmingdale State…
Cuomo: More tax cuts for small business
Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued to trot out his 2016 economic agenda on Tuesday, with a call to revamp the state tax code to benefit small businesses. The plan, announced in…
The Debrief: Rosalie Drago is a force for innovation
Rosalie Drago’s career path meandered through tourism and economic development then into workforce issues and from the Jersey Shore to Long Island – to LaunchPad Huntington, precisely, where she set…