Army Corps approves Fire Island ‘emergency action’
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Department of Squeaky Wheels comes word that “emergency federal action” has been approved on the storm-damaged shores of Fire Island. Just one week after…
Kirsten Gillibrand
No. 776: March finally ends, but SBU faculty, LinearDNA and artificial lifeforms are just getting started
Quarter pole: You survived the Winter That Winter Forgot … and now The March That Wouldn’t Die, as we reach the fifth (!) Friday of the month and the…
NY, CT senators pump up Plum Island preservation
By GREGORY ZELLER // The preservationist armada blockading Plum Island is enlisting some big guns. Just two months after the Long Island Regional Planning Council announced its support of public…
No recovery without trade groups, which need support
By TERRI ALESSI-MICELI // We generally think of COVID-19’s devastation in terms of its human toll and its economic toll. Indeed, the pandemic is registering a terrible impact on the…
Schumer: Biz-development funds big deal for SBU
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York’s two U.S. Senators, including the freshly minted Senate minority leader, are heralding a series of competitive U.S. Department of Commerce grants that will fund…
Gillibrand signs on to build-it-here bill
New federal legislation aims to keep high-pay, high-skill manufacturing jobs in the United States by brushing up a 50-year-old small-business law. Introduced by New Jersey Democrat Corey Booker and cosponsored…