As fatalities rise, gov must prioritize pedestrian safety
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // August was a deadly month on Long Island, with more than 30 of our neighbors killed in car crashes, several involving pedestrians and cyclists. A 22-year-old…
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No. 802: In which auroras, plastics and Uncle Miltie shine – and Albany’s air force targets Sharknado ’23
All’s flare: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we soak up the sun of a seasonably warm workweek – and brace for a titanic solar storm. Actually, not much…
In the weeds: Buzz-kill pill vs. multiplying marijuana
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // Ask 10 people if marijuana is addictive and you’ll get 10 different answers. Perhaps that’s why recent news of an experimental pill to effectively treat marijuana…
Isolation innovations for an increasingly lonely planet
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // As the latest round of COVID-19 takes its final breaths, America has yet another epidemic on its hands. And according to U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy,…
No. 775: Celebrating Clyde, SUNY’s leading ladies and your favorite Mom and Pop, with a round of Cokes on us
Sunny with a chance of awesome: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and the midpoint of a seasonably mild, typically wild week of socioeconomic progress. We’re warming up to a…
As staffs dwindle, post-COVID nonprofits seek answers
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // Long Island relies on community-based nonprofit organizations to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, heal the anxious, support the depressed and addicted and otherwise help our…
No. 761: Setting records with breakthrough burn tech, new vets, Walt D. and molasses bars, if you want
On the records: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as the fantastic innovation economy and the Winter That Winter Forgot, with its record-setting warmth here on Long Island, roll on….
In Tranq, a deadly new drug foe – with a running start
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // Fentanyl can be 100 times more powerful than heroin and it killed more than 71,00 Americans in 2021, but another drug now sweeping the nation might…
At the LIA, a mental health day like no other
By GREGORY ZELLER // A critical and often overlooked component of employee health and productivity took center stage this week at the Long Island Association. The LIA’s Health, Education and…
No. 749: Winter storms in with important downtown developments, a real puzzler and history’s busiest actor
Cold start: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and not just any Wednesday but the very first day of winter, which officially begins in our beautiful Northern Hemisphere at 4:48…
City’s homelessness cure is worse than the disease
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // More than 60,000 New Yorkers show up at city homeless shelters every night. Another 3,400 choose the subways instead, or the streets. Holiday visitors to the…
No. 742: Bullies beware! We’re pushing back with Vitamin C, Two Noons, EV shuttles and warm cider
Thanks (to you): Welcome to Friday, dear readers, as we wrap up this latest workweek and look ahead to Thanksgiving week, when even cutting-edge socioeconomic innovation bows to family…
No. 737: Honoring an icon, surviving the storm and deviling the eggs (mmmm), as Christmas begins (?!?)
Not so fast: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we dive headlong into November – and the Christmas season, at least according to Mariah Carey. With Halloween candy on…
Innovators circle the wagons as medical debt spirals
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS// Student debt is getting all the attention these days, but about four times as many Americans – 100 million, to be exact – are fending off medical…
Under the rainbow: Darkness shades LGBTQ+ survey
By GREGORY ZELLER // Eye-opening facts about regional LBGTQ+ populations inform a comprehensive new health-needs survey by a cornerstone of Long Island healthcare. The 2021 Long Island LGBTQ+ Community Health…