Offshore wind shines as courts pummel Trump orders
By GREGORY ZELLER // With Long Island watching anxiously from the front row, 2026 is off to a rock ’em, sock ’em start in America’s energy sector – with the…
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As GenAI proliferates, keeping the law in human hands
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // Generative Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing the legal world – and maybe shrinking it. GenAI, as it’s known, is transforming how law is practiced, how legislatures…
Poll: Wearable health devices rock! (If you wear them)
By GREGORY ZELLER // Wearable health devices are having a profoundly positive effect, according to the latest Mount Sinai South Nassau Truth in Medicine Poll – at least, among those who wear…
Water, sewer projects flow as LIREDC scores again
By GREGORY ZELLER // With new water-quality and childcare initiatives front and center, New York State has announced $56.4 million in fresh economic- and community-development funding for Long Island. The…
How AI can humanize communications, and why it must
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // Two thousand twenty-five was the year the communications industry stopped pretending everything was fine. Behind the polished campaigns, conference panels and artificial-intelligence demos, something far…
Detachments, of retinal and other varieties
By GREGORY ZELLER // The one-eyed man may be king in the land of the blind, but in a mecca of 21st Century innovation, he’s kinda screwed. Dutch Renaissance humanist…
Residential real estate: Island faces a crucial crossroads
By SCOTT BURMAN // Long Island’s aging, diversifying and increasingly mobile population is reshaping demand for its real estate products. While the overall Nassau/Suffolk population remains stable – just under…
As safety and efficiency improve, X-rays mark the spot
By BRAD CARLSON // Diagnostic X-ray imaging was invented more than a century ago, but remains part of our daily lives – and an area ripe for innovation. Most of…
AI offers higher risks (and some rewards) in hiring cycle
By LEE STEMKOSKI // Artificial intelligence is becoming more prevalent in many areas of life – and one growing area of growing concern, at least among employers, is the use…
In this mystery theater, fine food’s only part of the fun
By ZELORY GREGLER // The “magical mystery tour,” you know … but the “edible mystery tour?” Now you’re cooking. At least, you’re eating. And cracking codes, parsing puzzles and otherwise…
Commercial real estate stars shine at CIBS soiree
By GREGORY ZELLER // The best and brightest of the regional commercial real estate industry have received their just desserts. There were hors d’oeuvres, too. Food, fun and the fine-tuned…
At SBU, shooting for the moon, or at least baying at it
By GREGORY ZELLER // Sheep need not apply. If that wasn’t the tagline of The Wolf Den, a Nov. 13 industry-academia showcase strengthening ties between Accelerate Long Island and Stony…
NY’s tide has turned, but only love can end opioid deaths
By JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS // Imagine getting a $3,200 return on every dollar you invested, while simultaneously saving 6,523 lives over the course of just two years. The New York…
Santander, Stony Brook eye ‘career-relevant’ training
By GREGORY ZELLER // A big-time grant from a Spanish financial institution – by way of its Boston-based U.S. subsidiary – will supercharge a leading Long Island university’s workforce-development efforts….
SNAP: As Congress lays down, Long Islanders step up
By TERRY LYNAM // When I was 20 years old, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I applied for and received food stamps for about a month. We’d just driven…