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'Eliminate, consolidate or transfer' are three big words used by the Bi-County Temporary State Commission for Tax Relief on LI in studies on county government operations. The commission is in [...]

Two studies, one by the Bi-County Temporary State Commission For Tax Relief on LI, the other ordered by Governor Mario Cuomo through the NYS Education Department, are presenting scenarios for [...]

Staff of the Bi-County Temporary State Commission for Tax Relief on LI have estimated that more than $322-M annually could be saved, or 7.5% of the $4.3-B real estate taxes [...]

Despite the recession, and the fact that LI is already purported to pay the nation's highest salaries to teachers, police and railroad workers, public employee unions continue to press for [...]

A comparison of 105 LI school districts show teachers' salaries and benefits continue to far exceed the private sector's. The number of days actually worked (180), less sick and personal [...]

After more than a year of speculation, the NYS Education Department has ordered two Suffolk Boards of Cooperative Educational Services be merged for a savings of at least $3-M. BOCES [...]

In a move that surprised some business leaders, the LI Assn (Commack) Board of Directors announced Matthew Crosson will replace James Larocca as president of the 3,000-member organization. Crosson was [...]

A Brookhaven Town citizens' group, which includes a Dowling College professor, a federal labor judge, a financial consultant and a former police sergeant in its membership, has filed an ethics [...]

Eight LI movers and shakers are busy interviewing candidates to replace LI Assn (Commack) Pres James Larocca, who was paid $262,000 a year to lead the 3,000-member, multi-million-dollar organization. He [...]

In the last three months it has been reported that hundreds of NYS employees are permitted to retire, receive pensions, and then return to public jobs, with many earning far [...]

A committee appointed by Suffolk County Executive Robert Gaffney to study 41 recommendations made by the Bi-County Tax Relief Commission is lobbying Albany in the final days of the legislative [...]

A NYS Comptroller's audit found that Huntington Town, which is in fiscal turmoil, spent $864,687 on outside legal and other professional services in 1991, without written agreements, town board resolutions [...]

An $8-M plan to expand the Heckscher Museum was approved by the Huntington Town Board last week. The museum sought approval for the construction of two wings totaling 22,900 sq [...]

Design funds for a $46-M multi-purpose field house/health center/trade and convention center, expected to infuse the LI economy with $110-M in related annual revenues, are being reviewed now through June [...]

Governor Mario Cuomo's proposal to partially fund education by an income tax surcharge falls far short of its aim to relieve property owners and correct educational inequities, according to LI [...]

MGT Consultants (Tallahassee, FL) recently completed a $170,000 master plan for Suffolk Community College (Selden) which calls for a 40% expansion at a total cost of $275-M. The college's three [...]

LI restaurant owners say a proposal by the Clinton administration to reduce the business meals deduction to 50% will cost thousands of jobs on the Island and would have a [...]

Unlike a number of past government reports which remain on the shelf, the 41 points raised by the Bi-County Tax Commission last November are receiving attention by lawmakers and public [...]

LI businesses have listed dozens of job skills high school graduates should have, but don't, if they are to obtain employment in today's high tech job market. Several school-business alliances [...]

A Suffolk County plan to save $26-M a year in borrowing costs by collecting and distributing property taxes four times a year instead of two, met with heated debate in [...]

Around the West Sayville offices of Suffolk County Parks Commissioner Edward Wankel, the key phrase is 'private-public partnerships.' The county expects to reap $4-M to $5-M in capital improvements and [...]

City/town government is the wave of the 21st century for LI, and will be the basis for all other consolidations and bloat-reducing in government, according to a group of political [...]

Governor Mario Cuomo is calling for Legislative action in the privatization of Off Track Betting. In reviewing testimony before the State Advisory Commission on Racing In the 21st Century, he [...]

A team from LIU CW Post Campus (Brookville), studying ways that Islip Town could reorganize and operate more efficiently, found, surprisingly, that the town would make an 'ideal middle American [...]

A Copiague technology company, Bennett X-Ray, literally started in the proverbial garage. It recently expanded its physical plant and is expecting to glean an even bigger share of the world's [...]

With $2.3-B in total revenues, 24 million annual visitors and 95,600 employees, tourism is a major LI industry. The list of attractions is long: 84 museums; 300 hotels and motels [...]

NYS Education Commissioner Dr Thomas Sobol presented his case to the Board of Regents for more power to enforce school district consolidation and gave them a list of 49 LI [...]

Many taxpayers feel their hackles rise when they read of elected or appointed officials voting to raise their own pay, despite the shaky fiscal climate. In 1989, members of Congress [...]

It's clear to experts there is a need to revitalize the economy by investing in the transfer of high technology discoveries into commercial products and services. New high tech products [...]

SUNY's budget has dropped by $400-M, or 22% since 1975, yet enrollment has risen 2.5% to 403,000. On LI, four-year campus enrollment has not risen sharply (total LI enrollment is [...]

Support is growing for the merging of Suffolk's three Board of Cooperative Educational Services into one, for a savings of between $10-M to $79-M, depending on whether just central administration [...]

A cool growing season, heavy rains in August and hungry birds will not deter LI's wine industry from a successful harvest. Although most vineyards reported delayed picking due to the [...]

Off Track Betting and certain health services should be privatized, and a number of other county services should be open to competitive bidding, according to the NYS Temporary Commission For [...]

LI towns can save more than $200-M a year if they form a regional cooperative instead of continuing with the local approach to garbage disposal, according to the Bi-County Temporary [...]

State and local taxes, which per capita are the highest in the country, top the list of issues that concern Grumman Corp (NYSE, Bethpage) Chairman Renso Caporali. 'The cost of [...]

Outdoor concerts can turn an area upside down, or they can be big tourist draws that stimulate local businesses, depending on how they are planned. Entertainer Paul Simon's massive benefit [...]

Ask any business owner what is his most pressing problem, aside from taxes, and he'll say energy rates. Recently, a citizens' watchdog group pointed to the LI Lighting Co's (NYSE, [...]

After three years and $2-M for environmental research, Breslin Realty's (Garden City) 2,100-acre planned community in Brookhaven received a public hearing. The comprehensive North Shore Properties plan, which includes 5,086 [...]

A proposal to build luxury dwellings on only ten percent of Robins Island, while preserving the rest in its natural state, languishes as the courts, environmental groups and governmental bodies [...]

Hailed as a national model for suburban renewal, the Central Islip planned development project, which includes 1,050 new homes, 160 senior citizen rental units, 3,000 projected new jobs, two court [...]

A recent study shows the NYS mandated pre-kindergarten handicapped program is costing taxpayers millions of dollars more than necessary, while it does a disservice to the children it is supposed [...]

A 72-unit affordable housing project, which opened in Manorville last week, is unique for two reasons: it sailed from concept to completion in 18 months, a record for any LI [...]

Although the cost for decommissioning the $5.5-B Shoreham Nuclear Power plant is set at $186-M, payments in lieu of taxes and fuel disposal may increase the costs to as much [...]

Grumman Corp (NYSE, Bethpage) will receive $42.7-M to build superconducting magnets for a $397-M Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider being constructed at Brookhaven National Lab (Upton). The technology used in the [...]

A 175-room, $20-M hotel-conference center proposed for the SUNY Stony Brook campus may be a boost for area business or a 'death knell' for area hotels, (currently operating with a [...]

A Hempstead assemblywoman introduced legislation last week that might mean an end to the lengthy and costly conflict over construction on 110,000 acres in the Suffolk County pine barrens. An [...]

A $40-M senior citizen housing project on the grounds of Pilgrim State Hospital in Brentwood moved one step closer to its groundbreaking date last week when the LI Housing Partnership [...]

Selling assets such as JFK Int'l and LaGuardia airports could yield $3.27-B for NYS, according to Ronald Lauder, who chairs the NYS Senate Advisory Commission on Privatization. In addition, privatization [...]

LI towns continue to spend millions of dollars to cap landfills to comply with the NYS 1986 landfill closure law, despite a Suffolk County Health Department report that denies landfills [...]