Scholarships, Super Bowl tix lure the vaccine-hesitant
By GREGORY ZELLER // Albany is getting more creative in its efforts to convince New Yorkers to get a COVID-19 vaccination. Following Ohio’s lead – earlier this month, the Buckeye…
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Business Council’s 12-point plan aims to rescue retail
By GREGORY ZELLER // A comprehensive “preliminary” report on the state of Long Island retail details across-the-board shortfalls – many are pandemic-related – and offers a clear strategy to breathe…
Episode 7: Mitch Pally – Something to Build On
Mitch Pally has been there and done that – and after decades of Long Island service, he’s still doing it. Celebrating its 80th anniversary in 2021, the Long Island Builders…
Corporate reinvention is key in a post-pandemic world
By TERRY LYNAM // Finally, after more than 14 months of heartache, isolation and economic fallout from the worst pandemic in our lifetime, we’re returning – ever so slowly –…
New York unmasked as state races toward ‘normalcy’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Who was that masked man? The familiar question, first made famous by the “Lone Ranger” radio and television serials of the early 20th century, took on…
Participation essential as East End faces unsure future
By KATE FULLAM // Morning traffic in front of my Hampton Bays home always signals late spring, as diesel engines, squeaking brakes and blaring car radios mingle with backyard birdsong….
Downtown breakdown details imbalance, path forward
By GREGORY ZELLER // A COVID-sized dent in retail businesses and a disproportionate impact on communities of color highlight a new report detailing the pandemic’s effects on Long Island downtowns…
For the toilet-anxious, coaches who really talk $#!+
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the westernmost reaches of Long Island, and a place very close to our hearts, comes Tushy – the Brooklyn-based bidet business that stands ready (or…
Y innovates intervention as COVID’s mental toll mounts
By STACEY SPATA // How are you doing today? Take a minute to ask yourself this question. As New York State restrictions are lifted, it feels like we may be…
Acupath COVID assay earns national Benasource bump
By GREGORY ZELLER // The United States, at long last, has COVID-19 cornered – national vaccinations have soared, while the New York State Department of Health on Wednesday reported the…
Episode 4: James Hayward – Innovation In His DNA
In auto thefts, supply chains and COVID, there is DNA – and there’s a good chance Jim Hayward’s Applied DNA Sciences created it. As COVID-19 circumnavigated the globe, scientists representing…
Innovation in the Age of Coronavirus
Vaccinations are ramping up and the pandemic is winding down, but COVID-19 continues to reshape the world around us. And myriad Long Island forces – large and small, corporate and…
Calculating risks, rewards in Nassau warehouses
By HARRY COGHLAN // Nassau County has limited space to work with when it comes to the construction of warehousing facilities that allow companies to manufacture, house and distribute products…
Getting to the source, with health inequities laid bare
By TERRY LYNAM // The focus on systemic racism has never been more intense in the United States, with daily news coverage of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder…
Applied DNA, Northwell join hunt for COVID mutants
By GREGORY ZELLER // As humanity takes the upper hand in the war against COVID-19, the virus that causes the disease continues to mutate – and New York State’s largest…