For 65 years, community and class have marked SCCC
By TOM MARINER // Nassau and Suffolk counties lost more than 110,000 residents between 2017 and 2022, thanks largely to the regional “brain drain.” Our leaders are looking for solutions…
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No. 849: With crazy socks, hot rum, young inventors and the unmistakable intonations of Darth Vader
From the Department of Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Welcome to a wicked-cold Wednesday, intrepid innovators, as we follow up the early-week winter storm with a shivering deep freeze. While…
Three decades later, LIHTI still lighting biomed’s fuse
By TOM MARINER // Early in 2012, Marc Alessi – an attorney who had served three terms in the New York State Assembly – followed his entrepreneurial brain and founded…
No. 831: On slasher cinema, energy agendas, punks and pasta, with a clean sweep at (snowy) Republic Airport
You’ll get the hang of it: Don’t hang your head, intrepid innovator – it’s Wednesday out there, and you’re already halfway through this latest busy workweek. You hang with…
Were the Moon landings fake? Now that’s a giant leap
By TOM MARINER // Long Island is the last place where you’d expect a question about whether Neil Armstrong really took a “giant leap for mankind” on the Moon, because…
No. 814: Epigenetics shine, the mighty hashtags rise and summer survives, with hot Cubans (the sandwiches)
Summer swan song: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we muscle our way through the penultimate week of the Summer of 2023. It’s not quite summer’s chronological end, but…
Around the world, in 40 years, on the T7 express
By TOM MARINER // Rarely does technology development come full-circle like this. Its recent acquisition of Toronto-based Spindle BioTech has not only allowed Stony Brook’s Applied DNA Sciences to combine…
No. 798: Play some tunes, fly to space and show off your flexibility – it’s all gonna be peaches and cream
Light touch: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and not just any Wednesday but the official first day of Summer 2023 – our Northern Hemisphere’s annual summer solstice, when the…
LIA leaders still set a high bar, almost a century later
By TOM MARINER // Since its 1926 inception, the Long Island Association has played a pivotal role in shaping Long Island’s economic, social and political landscapes – and leadership has…
No. 785: On a free press, nitrogen pollution and chocolate pudding, with play-on-Sundays talent
Gray matters: Welcome to Wednesday, intrepid innovators, as we slog through a soggy workweek covered in clouds and soaked in spring showers. There are some breaks of sun here…
No. 773: Bracing for trouble, cleaning the local water and remembering Ron, with Captain Kirk in command
History in the making, one way or the other: Welcome to what promises to be a big day in the annals of American justice and politics, and a monumental…
In Loveland, a leader who knew how to use his time
By TOM MARINER // It was a drop-the-phone moment. “Ron Loveland is gone?” A shock. A huge hole, not only in the lives of his wife, Vicky, or their four…
No. 771: Caesar tossed – but it’s a great Ides of March for the rest of us, with ET, Fabio and important housing plans
Lend us your eyes: Friends, Romans, dear readers – welcome to Wednesday, and not just any Wednesday, of course, but the Ides of March. A wary day for Julius…
Through the years, skies with innovative East/West
By TOM MARINER // You’re three-and-a-half miles up in the sky, carrying three-dozen soldiers in a Boeing CH-47 Chinook – the fastest helicopter in the U.S. fleet – at 200…
No. 757: Heady dissertations, stronger coffee and, finally, East Side access (and brush like you mean it today)
Faster than it looks: Wednesday already! And just like that, you’re halfway through this latest speedy workweek – well done, racing readers! It’s Jan. 25 out there, and we’re…