Isolation innovations for an increasingly lonely planet
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // As the latest round of COVID-19 takes its final breaths, America has yet another epidemic on its hands. And according to U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy,…
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Lots left to debate, but AI’s already changing medicine
By TERRY LYNAM // Debates rage across all economic sectors over the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence, and its growing influence on our lives. When it comes to AI…
Tesla Science Center alternates currents, and history
By TOM MARINER // A combination of local passion and superb management is helping Nikola Tesla get his due recognition – and Long Island, too. Tesla, of course, is the…
Giving plenty of thought to new green infrastructure
By DAVID PENNETTA // Nothing like nice weather and more daylight to get us thinking green. That’s good, because Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office has laid out some aggressive plans for…
Proactive crisis communication? Take it to the bank
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // The swift downfalls of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank is the single-biggest financial story of 2023 (so far) and one of the biggest since…
As staffs dwindle, post-COVID nonprofits seek answers
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // Long Island relies on community-based nonprofit organizations to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, heal the anxious, support the depressed and addicted and otherwise help our…
Healthcare CEOs bring leadership to national gun fight
By TERRY LYNAM // Given the inability (or unwillingness) of our elected leaders to further strengthen the nation’s gun-safety laws, healthcare leaders from across the country are stepping up to…
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…
As AI evolves, the battle for control begins in court
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // In a haunting scene from 1968’s iconic “2001: A Space Odyssey,” sentient computer HAL 9000 turns off two astronauts’ life-support systems so it can assume…
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,…
It’s all fun and Netflix, until the con artists take over
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // Prestige television series, podcasts and documentaries about con artists are everywhere. On Netflix, which seems to be making these stories into a cottage industry, you…
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…
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…
‘Everything everywhere’ with Anne Shybunko-Moore
By TOM MARINER // The title of the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” accurately describes a treasure of Long Island, Anne Shybunko-Moore, CEO and owner of an important 52-year-old…
Hochul comes out swinging in rekindled housing fight
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // In her 2023 State of the State message, Gov. Kathy Hochul rekindled the debate on accessory dwelling units and affordable housing, which she sparked last…