Balanced Hochul shoots for the moon in FY2023 plan
By GREGORY ZELLER // If you liked Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2022 State of the State Address, you’ll likely love her roughly $200 billion Fiscal Year 2023 Executive Budget. But don’t…
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With billions blowing around, Albany inks wind deals
By GREGORY ZELLER // For the second time in one week, New York has surged toward its offshore-wind destiny – this time, finalizing megawatt power contracts with billion-dollar implications. A…
Gasp! Can the news media actually see the future?
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // Well, it’s official: The Giants are rebuilding. It wasn’t too long ago that I was sipping a freshly brewed preseason cup of false hope, as…
Amityville, Riverhead score $10M downtown awards
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Better Late Than Never File come Riverhead Town and the Village of Amityville, Long Island winners of Albany’s annual Downtown Revitalization Initiative. Make that…
Auction sets New York Bight’s offshore-wind course
By GREGORY ZELLER // Get your bids ready – the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has scheduled a Feb. 23 “wind auction” to divvy up 480,000 watery acres off…
Albany OKs Applied DNA’s rapid Omicron detector
By GREGORY ZELLER // With the novel coronavirus reestablishing its national dominance, the New York State Department of Health has wasted no time greenlighting a Long Island biotech’s next-generation COVID-detection…
Hydrogen economy advances with Hempstead HyGrid
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of the nation’s first clean-hydrogen projects is coming to Long Island, courtesy of one of the region’s largest utilities. National Grid and the Town of…
Souls for sale: Tracking trafficking on Long Island
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // A high-profile case replete with boldfaced names, private planes and unashamed debauchery may be over – for now – but human trafficking persists. It’s far more…
SBU joins SUNY Buffalo as Flagship Public University
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University has joined The University at Buffalo to split a rare distinction: They now share the mantle as New York State Flagship Public Universities….
Critics dunk on Hochul’s expensive State of the State
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Department of High Ambitions comes Gov. Kathy Hochul and her 2022 State of the State, a multibillion-dollar action plan including 228 “bold initiatives” and…
Nassau IDA’s 22-year PILOT package keys luxury hotel
By GREGORY ZELLER // A 22-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes package approved by the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency will help a new luxury hotel rise in Jericho. The Jericho Plaza Hotel –…
Amazonian attention bodes well for Amogy, CEBIP
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new Clean Energy Business Incubator Program client is already attracting major league attention – including a significant buy-in by Amazon. Brooklyn-based Amogy Inc., a developer…
Healthcare at a crossroads as nursing shortage grows
By TERRY LYNAM // Nurses have never been in higher demand: In the midst of a worldwide pandemic, hospitals, nursing homes, home-care agencies, outpatient facilities and nursing schools are all…
Albany, Army Corps of Engineers dig $1.7B beach plan
By GREGORY ZELLER // As coastal storms increase in frequency and ferocity, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has engaged a massive risk-management project designed to protect Long Island’s most…
In cardiovascular quest, Feinstein opens ‘smart bottles’
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York’s largest healthcare provider is leading a virtual trial of “smart” prescription bottles that address one of the biggest concerns of modern healthcare: “medication nonadherence.”…