Wednesday, October 21, 2026
The stakes are high, because A.I. is the first technology in a long time that can favor the little guy. For most of the last century, size was destiny. A big company could afford an IT department, in-house lawyers, a finance team and analysts poring over its data, and the corner store could not.
Recently I had the chance to attend a tribute to Howie Rose at CitiField, honoring his almost four decades as the iconic voice of the Mets. Rosemary and I have enjoyed a friendship with Rose and his wife, Barbara, over the years, and Howie invited us to the ceremony. Being a loving grandmother, Rosemary deferred to our grandson Jack, who’s a dedicated Mets — and Howie Rose — fan.
In football, if a receiver simply drops a pass, that’s an unforced error. In politics, it means a self-inflicted wound that could easily have been avoided. Come Nov. 3, I think those words will best define what will happen and why it will happen. While it’s true that the party in power tends to lose off-year elections, there have been too many unforced errors that will hurt the Republican Party.
Handling water scarcity is critical, because we need clean water for drinking, food production and our overall survival. This summer, Nassau and Suffolk counties have seen state drought warnings due to below-normal precipitation. Last month, the Suffolk County Water Authority asked residents to stop watering their lawns, warning that its infrastructure was reaching maximum capacity under the current combination of drought and heat. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Long Islanders use an average of 140 gallons of water a day per person, about 55 percent more than the national average.
Before becoming a photo of a scowling politician, paper has a complicated history. Somewhere there were trees — or recycled fibers that began as trees. There was harvesting, transportation, pulping, washing, processing and papermaking. There was lots of water. There was energy. There were chemicals involved in processing, bleaching and coating. There were huge vats of ink. There was printing and cutting and bundling.
Some of Long Island’s best and brightest future medical professionals put their skills to the test in intense, realistic simulations at the annual Mass Casualty Incident Day on Sept. 25 at the …
Hempstead’s Owen Watford of Hempstead has been named executive director of the Long Island Council of the Navy League, taking on a leadership role with the organization as it works to strengthen …
Hempstead native Ebony Walden shared her experiences — backpacking across five continents, volunteering in schools and navigating unfamiliar cultures — in her memoir released on Sept. 8, “Where I’m From: A Poetic Journey Across Five Continents,” at Uniondale Public Library on Sept. 23.
