Sensing opportunity, Ørsted offers Sunrise Wind buyout
By GREGORY ZELLER // With the fate of an ambitious offshore-wind farm hanging in the balance, two energy powerhouses – and longtime partners – are jockeying for position in New…
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Patience eroding, state sinks millions into coastal fixes
By GREGORY ZELLER // With ferocious storms piling up and federal forces dragging their heels, Albany is taking innovative action to protect Long Island beaches. Among the marching orders are…
Battles brewing over biz-formation transparency laws
By ALLISON SINGH // Form a corporate entity without naming actual owners? Sure! Just file paperwork with the state, pay a fee and you’ve got yourself a corporation, no questions…
LI economics (kinda), political jabs (sorta) in King’s Park
By GREGORY ZELLER // Governor Kathy Hochul visited King’s Park Thursday to detail a king’s ransom in state funding – and throw a few political jabs (or, more to the…
‘Green’ champion Farmingdale State rolls out new EVs
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s leading electric-vehicle champions has refueled its zero-emission mission by significantly expanding its EV fleet. Farmingdale State College has announced the addition of…
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…
Experience, mindfulness fuel new mental-health efforts
By GREGORY ZELLER // With the New Year comes a series of new mental-health initiatives targeting some of Long Island’s most vulnerable populations – and those who support them. The…
Hochul keeps it real in grounded ’24 State of the State
By GREGORY ZELLER // Mental and physical health challenges, the marijuana black market, education, the climate and New York’s ongoing affordable-housing crisis – not to mention budget-balancing – are all…
In government, an age-old issue with no easy solution
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // John F. Kennedy was 43 when he said in his 1961 inaugural address that the “torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.”…
Innovative cleantech targets Northwell medical waste
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of the nation’s largest producers of biohazardous materials is incorporating a cutting-edge technology from Ireland designed to safely handle infectious medical waste – and save…
Air, water woes enough to make poll respondents sick
By GREGORY ZELLER // Nearly half of Long Islanders think the local environment is unhealthy – and the farther west you go, the worse the numbers get. The latest Mount…
In Cell and Gene hub, LI’s best socioeconomic destiny
By GREGORY ZELLER // The cutting-edge Cell and Gene Therapy Innovation Hub coming to Nassau County will do more than “radically alter the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases,”…
For SBU eSports, not your father’s college game room
By GREGORY ZELLER // The latest computers, the fastest processors, premium peripherals and, most importantly, an arena of their own – Stony Brook University e-gamers, start your motherboards. The university…
LI’s largest food-distribution facility? That’s amore
By GREGORY ZELLER // A major-league specialty food distributor with a national scope and a lengthy Long Island legacy is celebrating a big-time Suffolk County expansion. Ferraro Foods will ceremoniously…
Green energy stalls unless we minimize moratoriums
By DAVID PENNETTA // Land-use moratoriums are here to stay – but how they work can use a refresher. Moratoriums are a temporary prohibition of an activity. The intention of…