Decades later, HIA-LI is still making the industrial grade
By TOM MARINER // One of Long Island’s most powerful business organizations was originally sparked by a power outage. The HIA-LI launched after a 1978 blackout, which left many of…
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Brilliant past, bright future power legacy LI machinist
By TOM MARINER // Last month, the new generation of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot walked onto the scene, heralding the rapidly growing robotics industry. Although it’s not directly their…
For 65 years, community and class have marked SCCC
By TOM MARINER // Nassau and Suffolk counties lost more than 110,000 residents between 2017 and 2022, thanks largely to the regional “brain drain.” Our leaders are looking for solutions…
No. 849: With crazy socks, hot rum, young inventors and the unmistakable intonations of Darth Vader
From the Department of Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Welcome to a wicked-cold Wednesday, intrepid innovators, as we follow up the early-week winter storm with a shivering deep freeze. While…
Three decades later, LIHTI still lighting biomed’s fuse
By TOM MARINER // Early in 2012, Marc Alessi – an attorney who had served three terms in the New York State Assembly – followed his entrepreneurial brain and founded…
Were the Moon landings fake? Now that’s a giant leap
By TOM MARINER // Long Island is the last place where you’d expect a question about whether Neil Armstrong really took a “giant leap for mankind” on the Moon, because…
Around the world, in 40 years, on the T7 express
By TOM MARINER // Rarely does technology development come full-circle like this. Its recent acquisition of Toronto-based Spindle BioTech has not only allowed Stony Brook’s Applied DNA Sciences to combine…
LIA leaders still set a high bar, almost a century later
By TOM MARINER // Since its 1926 inception, the Long Island Association has played a pivotal role in shaping Long Island’s economic, social and political landscapes – and leadership has…
Tesla Science Center alternates currents, and history
By TOM MARINER // A combination of local passion and superb management is helping Nikola Tesla get his due recognition – and Long Island, too. Tesla, of course, is the…
In Loveland, a leader who knew how to use his time
By TOM MARINER // It was a drop-the-phone moment. “Ron Loveland is gone?” A shock. A huge hole, not only in the lives of his wife, Vicky, or their four…
Through the years, skies with innovative East/West
By TOM MARINER // You’re three-and-a-half miles up in the sky, carrying three-dozen soldiers in a Boeing CH-47 Chinook – the fastest helicopter in the U.S. fleet – at 200…
‘Everything everywhere’ with Anne Shybunko-Moore
By TOM MARINER // The title of the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” accurately describes a treasure of Long Island, Anne Shybunko-Moore, CEO and owner of an important 52-year-old…
Fifty years and one full circle at Contract Pharmacal
By TOM MARINER // A familiar theme for success – and for staying on Long Island – is “family owned and operated.” Look no further than Contract Pharmacal Corp., which…
Bioscience ‘roller coaster’ racing toward new heights
By TOM MARINER // Broad Hollow Bioscience Park has already contributed mightily to Long Island’s “bio” ecosystem – and an old friend of regional commercialization is poised to take it…
At CSHL, excellence has always started at the top
By TOM MARINER // Through 132 years, eight Nobel Prizes and a body of research that’s literally unmatched around the world, one thing has never changed at Cold Spring Harbor…