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Two of Long Island's key institutional CEOs are stepping down at the end of this year after 25 years of remarkable leadership: Dr. James Shuart of Hofstra University and John [...]

Environmentalist Richard Amper has come out against the construction of the Ross School as a risk to the, drinking water supply, but he was recently forced by Ross lawyers to [...]

Now, more than ever, philanthropy has to make up for government cutbacks. As Secretary of State Colin Powell recently noted, 'At a time when government is doing less, the private [...]

Fifty years ago, I joined with other Long Islanders to create a community-wide safety net -- an organization to meet all of our health and human care needs. Today, I'm [...]

No Excuses is a new book about poor, but successful schools. They are 'jewels of educational excellence in unlikely places, ghetto neighborhood schools beating the socks off the Beverly Hills [...]

Long Island's United Way is getting a permanent home at the AIL campus in Deer Park, built with in-kind donations from associations, unions and companies, 'A New Center for Hope...' [...]

It's unfortunate that the book Charles R. Pierce was writing on LILCO and Shoreham and his hand-picked successor, William Catocosinos, was not completed before his death last week at 77. [...]

Plum Island is establishing a visitor's center at Orient Point for the Plum Island Animal Disease Lab, where the ferry departs. It's the latest twist in a public information effort [...]

County and local officials see the 58 acres of dilapidated buildings on the 1,486-acre, former Westhampton Air Force Base (now owned by Suffolk County and renamed Gabreski) as an 'industrial [...]

Long Island's high taxes are caused by police and teachers' salaries already surpassing $100,000 a year. And with actual per student costs at. parochial schools about $4,000 a year, and [...]

As a responsible citizen, you must vote. And as a responsible voter with limited time to evaluate voting records, here's a policy to consider. Since all local political activity increased [...]

Public libraries add value and quality of life to local communities. Created in 1957, in two tiny store fronts, and now the largest and busiest public library on Long Island, [...]

Legendary Gurney's Inn will get an $8 million dollar renovation, the first in 13 years, having emerged from bankruptcy a year ago. Operated by the Montes since 1936, and time-shared [...]

Long Island's foremost retailer, a leading activist and philanthropist, Alan Fortunoff, is dead at 67 from complications resulting from cancer. A man of great principle and character whose influence will [...]

Chase Manhattan Bank will be moving 600 jobs from its credit card division in Hicksville to Florida, Texas, and Delaware. A Chase executive said: 'We can get equally good people [...]

Atlantis Marine World opened in downtown Riverhead amid projections of more than 800,000 visitors a year and a multi-million annual economic impact. The Tanger Outlet Center, four miles to the [...]

A well-deserved recognition for New York Institute of Technology professor Adrienne O'Brian will take place in November at the Huntington Town House. There, the Long Island News Tonight gala will [...]

Now that the governors of New York and New Jersey have settled their standoff, the Port Authority can proceed with its original proclaimed project, a link between Brooklyn and New [...]

Glen Cove came in first among 50 communities in a statewide competition for the New York Conference of Mayors, and Freeport won second place. Swezey's Department Store, which opened in [...]

The Long Island unemployment rate continues to drop, hitting 2.4 percent in Nassau and 2.8 percent in Suffolk in April. Gov. George Pataki cut the ribbon on the 16-tenant Briarcliffe [...]

We gain some and lose some in our growing tech. economy. New Jersey-based Procure Net is moving 60 employees into a 12,090 square foot facility at Great River Tech Center [...]

Nov. 17 is Long Island Philanthropy Day 2000. Organized in 1987, the Long Island Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives has long been recognizing individuals and corporations [...]

According to ABLI board member Laureen Harris, 'Economics will ultimately create the Islander's next power play, both on and off the ice. What the previous owner found untenable -- the [...]

The Town of Riverhead is debating the future of Grumman's former runways at the 3,000-acre Calverton Airport. What a waste if they are destroyed by anti-aviation environmentalists. Riverhead owns the [...]

With all the corporate consolidations and political focus on different segments of New York State by Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, and with all the basic problems of Long Island's [...]

Local government employees would qualify to buy homes with 1 percent down payments and deeply discounted property prices if Congress approves a proposed legislation enabling them to live where they [...]

With the fast conversion of the defense industry into high tech, Long Island is becoming one of the nation's three leading high tech regions. Take i.park in Lake Success. The [...]

The first local use on Long Island of technology developed at Dowling College's National Aviation and Transportation Center (Brookhaven campus), and located in the Stan and Pat Henry Aviation Complex, [...]

World-renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman, blocked from establishing a summer music school on 20 treeless farm acres in Sagaponack, found a creative realtor, David Huschle, on Shelter Island. Thanks to Huschle, [...]

Now that Nassau's Republican bosses have admitted the inequities of their assessment system, and projected savings of hundreds of thousands in taxes for minority owners, the pressure increases for other [...]

The New York Law Journal recently reported that when New York's Appellate Division, second department, first became buried under an avalanche of filings, due to an ever-growing population, the executive [...]

Opening Microsoft's impressive Windows 2000 launch at Great River last week was Peter Gold-smith, under whose leadership the Long Island Software and Technology Network has gown to 750 members, including [...]

Newsday with its Long Island historical series has made a magnificent contribution to Long Island's identity and pride. Ideal finale could be a permanent summer outdoor historical pageant that other [...]

Why do Manhasset public schools spend $19,128 per pupil and Manhasset's parochial school less than $4,000 per pupil with equal acceptances in colleges? Why do Long Island's public schools cost [...]

The Great Neck School District is spending $16,710 per pupil, Manhasset $19,128, and Roslyn $16,493, while the Catholic diocese school district serving those communities is spending less than $4,000. Yet [...]

Long Island Venture Fund will start a new fund that will dwarf its first. The new one will have $200 million to invest starting in February, said its manager Paul [...]

Long Island is more than a long isle. Last year it became Treasure Island, Pleasure Island, Legal Island and Philanthropy Island simultaneously ... 'Treasure Island' because Long Island has the [...]

The historic Garden City Hotel is unleashing an emotional campaign capitalizing on its rich, elegant history. No other Long Island institution matches it. Long Island is fortunate to have the [...]

St. John's University is naming its business school the Peter J. Tobin College of Business, after its dean. A former scholarship graduate, gave the school $10.2 million. SUNY Stony Brook [...]

Last year, Long Island became 'Treasure Island!' In the millennium year 2000, Long Island can carry out Bishop John McGann's forecast to become the nearest place to heaven here on [...]

Long Island and the millennium! During the past decade, more than 50 improvement projects have been advanced that would cut improvement costs at least 25 percent while sharply improving Long [...]

'Nassau's Republican organization can no longer reward its political allies with fat contracts, patronage jobs and cozy labor settlements. Labor practices that have led to huge overtime costs for police [...]

Insiders are talking about ... How the Suffolk Legislature, now with a Democratic majority, increased their elected officials' salaries by 30 percent to 34 percent. Newsday labeled it 'sneaky, craven, [...]

In soliciting new bids for the 650 surplus acres at Pilgrim State, consideration should be given by Charles Gargano for a rail-freight center on the site serviced by LIRR, LIE [...]

Surprise closure of Brookhaven's High Flux Reactor dismays scientists. Labeled 'the best of its kind in the northern hemisphere ... it's a national shame' and represents 5 percent of Brookhaven [...]

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 87, of Mill Neck, a founder of Long Island's United Way, died last week after a career in thoroughbred racing that included presiding over the activities of [...]

Last week's election shook up the status quo. Now is the ideal time to make desirable changes. Many of the ins were voted out and newly elected public officials are [...]

Residents of Thomaston, Long Island are opposing North Shore University Hosiptal's (NSUH) request for tax-exempt status for a medical services office building it acquired in the area. They pointed to excessive profitability as the main reason for their stand. However, observers argue that NSUH provided more than $20 million in free services in 1993, $638,000 of which was spent on Thomaston residents. NUSH has also been instrumental in improving the economic status of the village., THE VILLAGE OF THOMASTON has picketed North Shore University Hospital and its Mayor has implied excessive profitability in opposition to the hospital's request for the customary tax-exempt status for a [...]

INSIDERS ARE TALKING ABOUT how despite stimulation of the economy being LI's highest priority, creation of a multi-use field-house arena on Suffolk Community College's Brentwood campus for trade shows and [...]

In two, three-hour sessions of a public hearing on the Olympus project Tuesday in Melville, LI's economy versus locality nimbyism was dramatically demonstrated with several dozen residents and Huntington Town [...]