SNAP: As Congress lays down, Long Islanders step up
By TERRY LYNAM // When I was 20 years old, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I applied for and received food stamps for about a month. We’d just driven…
Island Harvest Food Bank
No. 1015: In which redheads, rescue missions and Roy Rogers rally, and comets defy conventional science
Working on it: Welcome to the first Wednesday of November, dear readers, and the midpoint of the penultimate month’s first workweek. Election Day is behind us, Veteran’s Day is…
No. 933: On cocoa, cones and Kofi Annon (plus the origins of life on Earth, and other tidbits)
Friggin’ superstitions: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and not just any Friday but Friday the 13th – the second (and last, obviously) of 2024. Hey, we’re not going to…
No. 926: Showing kindness, wagging tails and making Whoopi – plus, why they’re totally milking it at SSUH
Taking temperatures: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we charge into the back half of another busy autumnal workweek. “Autumnal” according to the calendar, at least: While there’s certainly…
No. 900: Innovation, dressed to the nines
900 number: Nine hundred? Good golly, that’s a big number. Welcome, intrepid innovators, to Issue No. 900 of the Innovate Long Island Newsletter – which is not actually Issue…
No. 841: Powering up, following the GPS, lighting the menorah and getting stiffed by Albany, as usual
Makes an impression: Another workweek conquered, another weekend earned … very inspiring, intrepid innovators, as always. We’re so moved by your performance that we prepared this heartening newsletter to…
No. 840: In which we pawn our junk, nuke our food and feed the hungry, with new offshore-wind resources
El no-no: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we plow into the heart of December – the only plowing we’re doing here on Long Island, with long-range temperatures running high and nary a…
Luxury retailer, regional food groups fly to the rescue
By GREGORY ZELLER // A first-class hunger-relief effort is wheels-up at John F. Kennedy International Airport, with a Long Island-based national retailer behind the stick. Valley Stream-based International Shoppes –…
No. 813: Finding helium, remembering Roberto and collecting Canadian patents, with rhymes and reasons
Lost time: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and the end of another hit-or-miss summertime workweek – spotty rainstorms, half-speed productivity and a 50-50 shot that the person you’re looking…
No. 810: On the bright side, we’ve got leaning towers, busted presidents, cancer innovations and rice pudding
Half full: A happy and hopeful Wednesday to you, optimistic innovators, as we reach the midpoint of another progressive workweek. That’s right – you’re already halfway to your next…
No. 801: Fourth and long – but first, we duck asteroids, dig big diamonds and stuff socks, all caught on video
Vacation initiation: Welcome to Friday, friends, and not just any Friday but the Friday before next Tuesday’s Fourth of July festivities – making the weekend ahead a four-day affair…
No. 796: Saluting the flag, studying stem cells and surviving the DDT, backed by a true hip-hop legend
Trial balance: Welcome to Wednesday, fellow Americans, as we tune out the Constitutional crises and turn up the things that have always put the “united” in our states –…
No. 785: On a free press, nitrogen pollution and chocolate pudding, with play-on-Sundays talent
Gray matters: Welcome to Wednesday, intrepid innovators, as we slog through a soggy workweek covered in clouds and soaked in spring showers. There are some breaks of sun here…
No. 784: Safety first, followed by scary parachute jumps, coronary transplants and Schindler’s risky list
End run: Welcome to Friday, intrepid innovators, as we wrap up another progressive week (and exciting month) in socioeconomic innovation. Before we get to our well-earned mid-Spring weekend, just…
No. 768: Narcan stations, future neurosurgeons and AT&T arrive (no bologna, though we do have some)
Snow thanks: Welcome to the first Friday of March, dear readers, as we wrap up another busy workweek and tee up the third-to-last weekend of the Winter That Winter…