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…
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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…
As kids’ psychological struggles mount, forces unite
By TERRY LYNAM // The mental health of America’s kids was a concern long before COVID-19 upended society, so no one should be surprised by a new government study showing…
Mental block: Poll reveals Island mental health ‘crisis’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Social studies continue to paint bleak portraits of Long Island’s mental health landscape. Just one week after Stony Brook Medicine’s Long Island LGBTQ+ Community Health Needs…
As U.S. life expectancy falls, mental-health focus rises
By TERRY LYNAM // With COVID-19 claiming more than 1 million U.S. lives in the past 36 months and drug overdoses killing another 107,000 Americans in 2021 alone, it’s no…
Parkinson’s ultrarunner to go the distance, once again
By GREGORY ZELLER // Now here’s an idea that’s got legs. Wai Law is off and running, once again. With hundreds of charitable miles already underfoot and Parkinson’s disease research…
Amid historic generosity, a $350M opportunity for LI
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the See You in November File comes Albany’s $350 million “investment fund framework” for Long Island – more than a campaign promise, beyond ambitious, downright…
Plot twist: ‘Choker’ Biles becomes mental-health hero
By TERRY LYNAM // When U.S. gymnast Simone Biles announced that she was withdrawing from the team finals and individual all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympics because she had to…
No. 612: The metric system, new COVID clues and a unique gun-violence plan, all coated in milk chocolate
Right where you left us: Here we are, dear readers, back in your inbox and back on the beat midway through this blessedly cooler week of socioeconomic innovation. Let’s…
SUNY pumps millions into COVID-related mental health
By GREGORY ZELLER // Referencing a “once-in-a-generation health crisis” with dramatic implications beyond the physical, the State University of New York system has launched a massive student mental health and…
No. 527: On angry winds, sustained science and better mental health – we’ll sip to that!
Days, and confused: This much we know, dear readers – it’s Friday, Aug. 28, and you’ve completed another summer workweek in the cruel parallel universe that is COVID-19. Just…