Revaluing U.S. prosperity, after eye-opening voyage
By TERRY LYNAM // Awestruck by natural beauty. Amazed by racial, ethnic and religious diversity. Shocked by living conditions. Thankful to be an American. Those are my biggest takeaways after…
Terry Lynam
No. 759: Freedom rings, SCOTUS convenes and the LIA goes to the movies, with our fingerprints all over it
Winter is here, kinda: Welcome to Wednesday, intrepid innovators, as another mild workweek rolls by in Long Island’s Winter That Winter Forgot. Sure, sure, 18 snowflakes fell across the…
No. 747: Christmas cometh – but first, Alabama arrives, Queens cleans up nice and bikers gang up for good
Tick tock challenge: Welcome to Wednesday, intrepid innovators, and not to pressure you or anything, but the clock is ticking – now just 10 shopping days until Christmas,…
Great hope in electroceuticals, and a frustrating pace
By TERRY LYNAM // Kelly Owens is the posterchild for bioelectronic medicine. Bioelectronics is a rapidly emerging medical field wherein precise electrical stimulation is used to diagnose and treat chronic…
No. 735: Theater upgrades, Doonesbury and a little bit of chicken fried – and somebody save Pat Sajak!
Stay cool: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and the midpoint of a freakishly warm autumnal workweek. The thermometer might say spring, but the calendar says fall – and so…
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…
No. 723: On lighthouses, tiny STEM grants and huge debt – plus sandwiches, whatever the heck you call them
Summer’s swan song: Wednesday already, dear readers! This last full workweek of the Summer of 2022 is flying by, with the weekend – and next week’s autumnal equinox –…
As U.S. life expectancy falls, mental-health focus rises
By TERRY LYNAM // With COVID-19 claiming more than 1 million U.S. lives in the past 36 months and drug overdoses killing another 107,000 Americans in 2021 alone, it’s no…
Without gov’t oversight, who watches the pushers?
By TERRY LYNAM // Most people have a negative instinctive reaction to government bureaucracy and regulatory mandates, often viewed as excessively burdensome micromanagement. Many are inarguably flawed – but regulatory…
No. 701: Summer starts, Greenwich continues and illegal Chinese imports stop (with a side of onion rings)
The solstice with the mostess: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and welcome to summer, which officially arrived here in our glorious Northern Hemisphere at 5:14 a.m. EDT Tuesday. To…
Healthcare finally prioritizing providers’ mental health
By TERRY LYNAM // They’re often held to higher standards, but doctors and other medical professionals are mere mortals, just like the rest of us. Unlike the rest of us,…
No. 689: A dimension of sight, sound and mind, with Salvador Dalí, Monty Python and genius LI scientists
Sol train: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we shine our way through another sunny springtime workweek. It’s May 11 out there, and as Long Island slowly warms, the…
Guns kill kids, and if lawmakers won’t act, doctors will
By TERRY LYNAM // For the first time in more than 60 years, gunshot wounds have overtaken motor vehicle accidents as the number-one killer of American children. While certainly a…
No. 677: Virtual vacations, fortunate follies, puzzling polls – and the attack of the nightmare dolphins!
March on: Welcome, dear friends, to the March that wouldn’t die – the fifth Wednesday of the month and still a day to go! The workweek, however, proceeds on…
No. 665: On Pepcid power, provosts and a literal peach of a patent, with a quick stop in King Tut’s tomb
Creative writing: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we recover completely from the Super Bowl, Valentine’s Day and surprise snowstorms and charge headfirst toward our fantastic socioeconomic destiny. It’s…