NY, CT senators pump up Plum Island preservation
By GREGORY ZELLER // The preservationist armada blockading Plum Island is enlisting some big guns. Just two months after the Long Island Regional Planning Council announced its support of public…
Plum Island Animal Disease Center
No. 668: It’s journalism, the next generation – filled with nuts, Colts, Marx Brothers and beloved Beatles
Seasonal disorder: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, as we ride late February’s seasonal seesaw – 50 degrees one day, snowing the next – straight toward another well-earned weekend. It’s…
No. 667: In which bananas, plutonium and Tootsie Rolls all play a part – and a top LI contractor finds a new home
Running start: It’s Wednesday already, intrepid innovators, as we hurdle the hump and hustle through another busy week of socioeconomic invention. It’s a very warm Feb. 23 out there,…
Conservationists push Plum Island National Monument
By GREGORY ZELLER // Regional preservationists have already convinced the federal government not to sell Plum Island to private developers – now, they want the largely undeveloped islet crowned as…