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…
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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…
At CSHL, excellence has always started at the top
By TOM MARINER // Through 132 years, eight Nobel Prizes and a body of research that’s literally unmatched around the world, one thing has never changed at Cold Spring Harbor…
Long Island’s strong case for parking-mandate reform
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // It’s time to take back Long Island’s “seas of asphalt.” New planning and zoning concepts and laws that revise and significantly reduce minimum off-street parking…
Factcheck: Misinformation is mangling LI innovation
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // When I was young, my parents told me I had to wait 30 minutes after eating before I could go swimming. It had something to…
Healthcare transparency: More than just a data dump
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // Imagine finding out that you have cancer via a text message while barreling down the Northern State Parkway. I did. It was a Friday, April 1,…
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…
Graphic content: New York Tech’s animated history
By TOM MARINER // The $99.7 billion movie industry and the $198 billion videogame industry both bank on computer-generated realism that was birthed on Long Island. One master innovator on…
After a SCOTUS term like no other, what comes next?
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // As expected, the United States Supreme Court’s momentous term rocked the nation and even shook the world. When the first African American woman to become…
No mistaking it: ‘Sorry’ seems to be the hardest word
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // The American poet Carl Sandburg famously said, “If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts….