One of my all-time favorite comedians was Groucho Marx. He always had the right response to the question of the moment.
more
1/19/23
|
New York has lost Oyster Bay. Well, more accurately, the state has lost 300,000 people — the town’s population — in just a single year.
more
1/19/23
|
Voters talked, but at least according to them, a committee tasked with drawing new boundaries for Hempstead town elected officials didn’t listen.
At least that was the takeaway during the latest …
more
By Ana Borruto
|
1/12/23
|
Once again, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has left coal in the stockings of Long Island Rail Road commuters.
more
By Larry Penner
|
1/12/23
|
For decades, gas pipelines and other delivery infrastructure have been a reliable cash cow for utility companies, which recover the costs of building their distribution systems from our utility bills . . .
more
By Anshul Gupta and Gordian Raacke
|
1/12/23
|
As I look back on my New Years’ columns over these last many years, I might as well have been writing in disappearing ink. Pretty much nothing I expected came to pass . . .
more
1/12/23
|
The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour for 14 years — a time period during which mere adjustments for inflation would now have it over $10.
more
1/12/23
|
New York state’s missing U.S. senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, recently surfaced on Long Island. That must mean that Gillibrand finally got around to analyzing November’s election results . . .
more
By Ronald J. Rosenberg
|
1/5/23
|
As the new year begins, let us look up to the stars that light our winter nights. The transition from 2022 to 2023 has been showered with starlight.
more
1/5/23
|
Many people woke up a couple of days before Christmas to heavy rain and wind that flooded residential streets and primary roadways, and may have left them wondering, “Where are all those Sandy flood-mitigation projects we were promised?”
more
1/5/23
|