After 15 years of legwork, time for action in Melville
By DAVID PENNETTA // Melville has a great business history – but action is needed now to keep the hamlet vibrant and relevant. The combination of office and warehousing spaces,…
post-pandemic
No. 766: Turbulent LIMA takes off and mixologists have a moment, with our finger on the pulsars
All the world’s a stage: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and the final act of another well-staged workweek, replete with drama, character development and, we hope, a happy ending….
In Tranq, a deadly new drug foe – with a running start
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // Fentanyl can be 100 times more powerful than heroin and it killed more than 71,00 Americans in 2021, but another drug now sweeping the nation might…
Customer experience must lead digital transformation
By BOB ISAKSEN // Digital demands on companies skyrocketed during the pandemic, as workers went remote and consumers spent more time online. As we enter the new year, companies should…
Code blue: American hospitals in critical condition
By TERRY LYNAM // Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the financial health of America’s hospitals, but if things don’t change fast, millions soon will. Still…
At the LIA, a mental health day like no other
By GREGORY ZELLER // A critical and often overlooked component of employee health and productivity took center stage this week at the Long Island Association. The LIA’s Health, Education and…
Brick-and-mortar finds a spot in an e-commerce world
By MELISSA NAEDER // Service Merchandise, which is all e-commerce now but came to life as a unique 20th Century catalog showroom, was way ahead of its time. The term…
The Debrief: At Canon USA, the people have spoken
From the Department of Dramatically Underappreciated Socioeconomic Cornerstones comes Canon U.S.A., the Melville-based subsidiary of Japanese imaging giant Canon Inc. boasting billions in annual revenues and roughly 6,200 employees….
As kids’ psychological struggles mount, forces unite
By TERRY LYNAM // The mental health of America’s kids was a concern long before COVID-19 upended society, so no one should be surprised by a new government study showing…
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…
Top techsperts carry CEWIT 2022 back to school
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University’s season of colossal conferences continues next week, and this time, the future of … well, everything … is on the line. Just weeks…
Following COVID win, Island biotech targets monkeypox
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences is ready to play a little monkey ball. The Stony Brook-based biotech – part supply-chain authenticator, part Polymerase Chain Reaction-based DNA technology leader,…
AEC 2022 gets the clean-energy band back together
By GREGORY ZELLER // And now back to our regularly scheduled low-carbon economy, already in progress. Four years since last gathering in person – and 14 months since a post-pandemic…
How ‘Innovation and Choice’ Act threatens minority biz
By PHIL ANDREWS // Legislation that politicians claim will protect small businesses from the alleged monopoly power of large tech companies will end up depriving entrepreneurs of vital revenue streams…
NYS floats $250M in credits for small-biz COVID costs
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York State is now accepting applications for a $250 million tax-credit program designed to offset small-business expenses created by the pandemic. The “initial intake” of…