Balanced Hochul shoots for the moon in FY2023 plan
By GREGORY ZELLER // If you liked Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2022 State of the State Address, you’ll likely love her roughly $200 billion Fiscal Year 2023 Executive Budget. But don’t…
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Amityville, Riverhead score $10M downtown awards
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Better Late Than Never File come Riverhead Town and the Village of Amityville, Long Island winners of Albany’s annual Downtown Revitalization Initiative. Make that…
Albany OKs Applied DNA’s rapid Omicron detector
By GREGORY ZELLER // With the novel coronavirus reestablishing its national dominance, the New York State Department of Health has wasted no time greenlighting a Long Island biotech’s next-generation COVID-detection…
Souls for sale: Tracking trafficking on Long Island
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // A high-profile case replete with boldfaced names, private planes and unashamed debauchery may be over – for now – but human trafficking persists. It’s far more…
Healthcare at a crossroads as nursing shortage grows
By TERRY LYNAM // Nurses have never been in higher demand: In the midst of a worldwide pandemic, hospitals, nursing homes, home-care agencies, outpatient facilities and nursing schools are all…
Food-and-bev biz must adapt as supply chains suffer
By NANCY PAK // The COVID pandemic dramatically reminded us of the role cookie snacks and other comfort foods play in confronting disruptions to our traditional social connections – and…
Hochul tags unvaccinated as NY mask mandates return
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas 2020: With the omicron variant spreading and national COVID cases rising fast, Albany has reinstated public mask-wearing protocols….
No. 648: On time travel, inventor mentors and overdue airport arrivals – and mmmmm, brownies!
Stress test: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as the Christmas 2021 countdown continues and we plow through another busy week of socioeconomic innovation. It’s Wednesday, Dec. 8, and there…
With Omicron coming, Applied DNA steps up detection
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s most progressive biotechs has COVID-19’s frightening new variant dead in its sights. Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences has announced a “diagnostic strategy”…
Business Council: Corporate tax hike bad for LI, nation
By KENNETH POKALSKY // As the political debate continues regarding the federal budget and sweeping “build back better” legislation, it is encouraging to see Democrats in the U.S. Congress are…
In real-time health platform, a billion points of data
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York’s largest healthcare provider is contributing to a national program that will save lives with digital data. Billed as “the world’s first health system-led data…
With Goddard on board, Qunnect fires all rockets
By GREGORY ZELLER // If ever there was a can’t-miss 21st Century business proposition, un-hackable communications networks just might be it. Ultra-secure networking is a rock-solid concept with vast potential…
At COP26, last chance for Long Island – and the world
By JOHN PARKER // It’s fall in America and an impactful event is about to begin on the other side of the Atlantic: The 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference of…
Everyone wins as Albany catches up with telehealth
By MARK USTIN // As policymakers in New York have responded to the COVID pandemic, they have implemented a variety of changes that create tremendous opportunities in the post-COVID world….
Marking a half-century of medical invention, with style
By GREGORY ZELLER // Fifty years later, not much has changed for medical-product consultancy MIDI Product Development – except its ever-evolving technological capabilities, its larger role in the client’s commercialization…