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…
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Tough year, but don’t write off social media just yet
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // Social media, our culture’s dominant media force for nearly two decades, had a rough year. Following lightening-rod Elon Musk’s purchase, advertisers are fleeing Twitter. Lawmakers…
City’s homelessness cure is worse than the disease
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // More than 60,000 New Yorkers show up at city homeless shelters every night. Another 3,400 choose the subways instead, or the streets. Holiday visitors to the…
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…
Fifty years and one full circle at Contract Pharmacal
By TOM MARINER // A familiar theme for success – and for staying on Long Island – is “family owned and operated.” Look no further than Contract Pharmacal Corp., which…
Conservative SCOTUS’s next target: Affirmative Action
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // Based on lengthy oral arguments in two recent high-profile cases, the U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to overturn decades-old precedents on Affirmative Action at public…
Will local issues outplay D.C. dysfunction? Stay tuned
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // The incredible (and, depending on your POV, incredibly concerning) proliferation of partisan politics has had wide-ranging cultural and political consequences – and the art of…
Innovators circle the wagons as medical debt spirals
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS// Student debt is getting all the attention these days, but about four times as many Americans – 100 million, to be exact – are fending off medical…
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 Tito’s? Hey, no whining in the mecca of vino value
By GREGORY ZELLER // Nobody would confuse The Shoppes at East Wind with a modern mall, any more than they’d mistake the mothership East Wind destination banquet castle for a…
Bioscience ‘roller coaster’ racing toward new heights
By TOM MARINER // Broad Hollow Bioscience Park has already contributed mightily to Long Island’s “bio” ecosystem – and an old friend of regional commercialization is poised to take it…
With LI likely next, migrant mess faces legal scrutiny
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // Setting aside questions of public policy and politics, the recent actions of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis raise serious legal questions…
Plane stupid: DeSantis misses the lessons of Dukakis
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // In September 1988, Democratic nominee for President of the United States Michael Dukakis, with his lead in the race dwindling fast, visited the General Dynamics…
Trip advisor: As ‘shrooms soar, proceed with caution
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // If mere mention of “magic mushrooms” brings you back to blacklight posters, lava lamps and the rhythmic snare drum of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit,” you’re not…
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…