Albany, Suffolk close land deal, opening wind tunnel
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the By Land and By Sea File comes an official transfer of property between New York State and Suffolk County, clearing the path for an…
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With Leviton’s latest bright idea, UV is A-OK in the OR
By GREGORY ZELLER // A cornerstone Long Island innovator has seen the light: continuous ultraviolet disinfection that doesn’t sacrifice clear vision. Wave hello to WavePort, a patent-pending technology from Melville-based…
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…
ESD bolsters future workforce with $150M grant effort
By GREGORY ZELLER // A newly formed Empire State Development program will funnel $150 million into the education, training and credentialing of an in-demand statewide workforce. Albany’s main economic-development engine…
No Tito’s? Hey, no whining in the mecca of vino value
By GREGORY ZELLER // Nobody would confuse The Shoppes at East Wind with a modern mall, any more than they’d mistake the mothership East Wind destination banquet castle for a…
How to stop COVID, and maybe whatever comes next
By GREGORY ZELLER // The latest DNA-based advance by a progressive Long Island biotech goes where other biochemists have gone before – but also blazes a trail for new vaccination…
Under the rainbow: Darkness shades LGBTQ+ survey
By GREGORY ZELLER // Eye-opening facts about regional LBGTQ+ populations inform a comprehensive new health-needs survey by a cornerstone of Long Island healthcare. The 2021 Long Island LGBTQ+ Community Health…
Medical assistant partnership puts the ‘earn’ in ‘learn’
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York State’s largest healthcare provider and the state’s busiest community college are teaming up to address increasing healthcare needs. It’s no surprise that demand for…
Night of a thousand ideas at first-ever BrandSlam
BrandSlam is in the books! Our free “marketing improv” event, held Oct. 6 at LaunchPad Huntington, was exactly what we’d hoped: fun, instructive, another worthy addition to Innovate Long…
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…
A shocking discovery, with painfully obvious benefits
By GREGORY ZELLER // They’re getting down to the nitty gritty at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, where investigators may have finally determined how and why electrical stimulation reduces…
Hops to it: Fourth-annual Crushies greets early birds
By GREGORY ZELLER // Organizers have tapped the keg on the latest installment of the beer-battered king of Long Island marketing-award programs. The fourth Craft Beer Marketing Awards – an…
We are family: The criticality of workplace culture
By JOE CAMBERATO // I started my company in a spare bedroom in 2007, only a few months before the 2008 financial crisis. It’s been quite an adventure, but with…
Family, colleagues mourn Long Island cornerstone Kulka
By GREGORY ZELLER // Family, friends and colleagues are mourning the death of a Long Island construction-industry icon. Jack Kulka, the outspoken founder of The Kulka Group and a founding…
With LI likely next, migrant mess faces legal scrutiny
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // Setting aside questions of public policy and politics, the recent actions of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis raise serious legal questions…