The Debrief: The Queen of Long Island Media
As a Season 2 guest on “Spark: The Innovate Long Island Podcast,” she helped create an interdimensional talk-show rift that temporarily bridged our giddy gabfest with her own syndicated…
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With $100M redux underway, Green Acres is the place
By GREGORY ZELLER // The $100 million-plus renovation of Green Acres Mall is picking up steam, with new construction and a host of new retail and restaurant options on tap….
With billions in play, opioid settlements turn political
By TERRY LYNAM // To those who’ve lost a loved one, it’s blood money: $55 billion in court settlements to be paid out in response to the 900,000 American lives…
No. 851: Old money, new lifeforms and more resilient LI coastlines, with plenty of nice things to say about you
Soggy slog: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we splash through the midpoint of another wet winter workweek. Fortunately, this damp precipitation situation can’t stop intrepid innovators like you…
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…
Risking life, and a clean record, for a better detector
By TOM MARINER // As I stepped from the airplane directly onto the runway, I remember thinking that the door sill was eight feet higher when I boarded. A silver-suited…
Walmart deal proceeding smoothie for LI yogurt maker
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island yogurt maker with an ultra-healthy formula and an already-impressive following is close to joining an exclusive club. Port Jefferson-based Trimona Foods has its metaphorical…
Twists, turns, less sugar mark Hylux’s road to success
By GREGORY ZELLER // A five-year-old startup with a taste for healthy living has hit it big – just what founder Lamar Letts wanted, though the path to success was…
No. 545: Hanging with Cronkite, King Tut and Long Island particle physicists, as the smoke clears
Is it over? Not quite, dear readers – but the voting is done, there’s a hard stop on those miserable campaign commercials and the endless election signs blockin’ out…
Understanding executive orders (at least, trying to)
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // Federal and state governments have issued numerous emergency executive orders to cope with COVID-19. Simply keeping track of these orders is a full-time job; compliance…
No. 350: Digitizing real estate, battening down Long Island’s hatches and getting your Guptas straight
Couldn’t have said it better: You’ve done it, intrepid reader – the end of another busy workweek is nigh and another autumn weekend looms. To set the mood, please…
At Henry Schein, worth a Fortune and still climbing
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s only Fortune 500 company is actually a little more Fortune-ate than it was last year – thought its success is based on anything but…
No. 296: Welcoming Whiteley, smartening schools, terminating data thieves and seeing the ‘forest bathing’ for the trees
And down the stretch they come: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, with the finish line and another well-deserved weekend in sight. Happy Chakri Day, commemorating the establishment of the Chakri…
No. 285: A DNA anniversary, an IPS milestone and connecting Old Westbury to Cuba
Well, that was quick: Can it be? Two months of 2018 in the books already? Be it can, dear reader, as this Wednesday, Feb. 28, finishes off one-sixth of the…
No. 266: Luminati back at the dance, LIREDC on top and the LIRR on track three
Glad tidings: Happy Friday, readers old and new, and a special hello to Innovate Long Island’s newest sponsor, Uniondale law firm Ruskin Moscou Faltischek. Welcome to the show! Yellow peg:…