LICA techs up for 2018’s first Capital Forum
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the If It Ain’t Broke File comes the Long Island Capital Alliance, which is turning to a tried-and-true topic for its first 2018 Capital Forum….
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At SUNY Old Westbury and SBU, it’s up to them
A national competition designed to educate collegians on important national economic issues has come to Long Island. Specifically, to SUNY Old Westbury and Stony Brook University, which have been selected…
Cerini & Associates launches 2018 Tax Change Blog
By EDWARD McWILLIAMS // In December 2017, the U.S. Congress passed, and President Trump signed, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which will impact virtually all taxpayers in…
Northwell, Connecticut health network buddy up
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Empire State’s busiest healthcare provider has established a new foothold in the Constitution State. New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health – New York’s biggest healthcare network…
Nassau, Suffolk earn emergency-comm funds
By GREGORY ZELLER // Nassau and Suffolk counties will receive millions in state funds to improve emergency communications between law enforcement agencies, fire departments and other first responders. All told,…
Catholic Health Services, NYIT form osteopathic pact
By GREGORY ZELLER // A fresh collaboration between a groundbreaking Long Island medical school and a leading provider of community-based healthcare will improve medical services for patients throughout the region….
Cuomo looks to expand state’s MWBE outreach efforts
By GREGORY ZELLER // Albany is looking to expand the reach of New York’s successful MWBE Program. While current state law attaches specific “utilization” goals to the awarding of state…
NIH backs SBU-based biotech’s tuberculosis effort
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Setauket-based pharmaceuticals startup specializing in biomarker analysis has landed a chunky National Institutes of Health research award. Chronus Pharmaceuticals, founded and managed by researchers representing…
LIA: Farmingdale State revs a strong economic engine
By GREGORY ZELLER // Higher education on Long Island may be dominated by Hofstra and Stony Brook Universities, but a relatively small SUNY school is proving to be the region’s…
For EGC Group, a wink and a KISS and a really big deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island-based digital agency has signed a beauty of a deal with a leading global cosmetics distributor. EGC Group, which maintains offices in Melville and…
Appointees enrich Hofstra’s Center for Entrepreneurship
By GREGORY ZELLER // They’re powering up at Hofstra University’s three-year-old Center for Entrepreneurship, where a transfusion of fresh blood is kicking innovation to new levels. The center has tapped…
NY unveils nation’s first Offshore Wind Master Plan
By GREGORY ZELLER // With lofty short- and long-term energy goals – and a thumb directly in President Donald Trump’s eye – New York State has released the nation’s first…
Alive and well, Start-Up NY adds two LI biotechs
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two early-stage Long Island biotechs are among 10 new companies hitching their wagon to one of Albany’s primary business-development efforts. Start-Up NY, the Empire State Development…
Multistate coalition to sue feds over new tax law
By GREGORY ZELLER // Responding to “an economic missile (fired) at the fiscal health of our state,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo and friends are taking the federal government to court. Joined…
Sensing something big in Adelphi’s ASD-friendly space
By GREGORY ZELLER // Noting “a first of its kind [at] a college or university,” Adelphi University this week heralded the opening of a new “sensory room” for students on…