As financial markets roil, mental health issues boil
By JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS // If stock market swings are making you crazy, you’re not alone. Seven in 10 recently surveyed Americans said their financial stress is at an all-time…
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Farewell, Sands Long Island casino, we hardly knew ye
By GREGORY ZELLER // Las Vegas Sands will not be developing a glitzy casino resort on Long Island – but the Island is not out of the brick-and-mortar casino business…
No. 958: On vaccinations, various Vulcans and veritable ventures, plus the return of the old ball game
Play ball! Welcome to Wednesday, sports fans, and not just any Wednesday but the Wednesday before the start of the 2025 Major League Baseball season – which officially kicks…
Fair-housing groups fight back as HUD cripples funding
By JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS // A million dollars recently flew out the door of Long Island Housing Services, the only nonprofit fair-housing advocacy and enforcement organization serving Nassau and Suffolk…
No. 946: On sweet treats, Lincoln’s legacy and better healthcare managers … and have you been hurt at work?
Throwing a few changeups: Batter up, dear readers! It’s Wednesday out there, and another Long Island Winter workweek – snow, rain, cold, wind, the works – is rounding the…
Magic pill? No. But Journavx could provide opioid assist
By JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS // People in acute pain might be relieved to know that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved Journavx, a novel painkiller that aspires to…
FCA eyes key clinical upgrade, with Albany’s assistance
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s largest and busiest health and human services organizations will supercharge two existing mental-health clinics, with a nod to New York State. The…
No. 932: Mountains loom, Gen Z glooms, Northwell beams up … and Spark, the herald podcast returns!
Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as Long Island endures another windy deluge (at least it’s not snow!) and we continue,…
Feds scuffle as minorities pay a heavy diabetes price
By JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS // André “Doctor Dre” Brown can’t prescribe Ozempic because he’s not that kind of doctor, but that hasn’t stopped the Beastie Boys DJ and 1990s co-host…
With billions in play, opioid settlements turn political
By TERRY LYNAM // To those who’ve lost a loved one, it’s blood money: $55 billion in court settlements to be paid out in response to the 900,000 American lives…
No. 918: On firehouse funds, souped-up spinal surgeries and pioneering playwrights (all Disneyfied)
Chill out: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and a nippy one at that, as decidedly Fall-like temperatures give Long Island a truly Autumnal feel. Regional economic development, however, is…
Churches, charities inching dangerously close to politics
By JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS // The rules are clear: Charitable organizations are supposed to stay out of politics. An important provision in Section 501(c)3 of the Federal Tax Code –…
No. 915: In which CBs speak, AI stutters, Holy Fathers fly and Julian Assange goes free – and try the tacos!
Ten-four, drivers: Breaker, breaker, dear readers – it’s Friday on the information superhighway and your good buddy Innovate Long Island is here to keep the go-go juice pumping before…
No. 903: Rain, rain goes away – just in time for a Slinky little number and a strong cybersecurity call
Storm chaser: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we enjoy a blessedly low-humidity (and quite autumnal) stretch on Long Island – recompence for the early week’s mind-blowing deluge (which, while…
As DWI fatalities soar, time for technological solutions
By JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS // Recently released surveillance video from June 28 shows an allegedly intoxicated driver purchasing booze from a liquor store just minutes before he crashed his Chevrolet…