Posted in state government, tagged education, Broadwater, Hempstead, David Paterson on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Before Gov. David Paterson nixed the Broadwater, he gave a rather funny rundown about his long Long Island ties.
Here it is:
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, James Simons, Stony Brook University on February 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Stony Brook University sure is growing. It’s absorbed Long Island University’s Southampton campus, and is building the Center for Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology as well as the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center.
Here comes another.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer at Stony Brook’s Manhattan campus today announced that Long Island’s richest man — hedge fund manager [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged college, education, housing, SUNY Old Westbury on February 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As LI Biz Blog reported last month, SUNY Old Westbury has instituted a tough love plan with its students, requiring a 2.0 average to have the privilege of living on campus dorms.
The New York Times has a story today outlining the real difficulty some students have with commuting to school if they fall a little [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, Kenneth P. Lavalle on February 8, 2008 | No Comments »
State Senator Ken LaValle has lowered a guard rail to what had been an on-the-rails deal to merge Brooklyn’s Polytechnic University into New York University.
As reported in today’s New York Times, NYU gave up its own engineering school 35 years ago for financial reasons resulting in more than 100 faculty members trekking across the East [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, podcast, Stony Brook University on February 1, 2008 | No Comments »
This week, there is big news in the latest episode of our weekly podcast.
In this edition of LI Bizcast, host David Reich-Hale tells us how Stony Brook University is interested in buying Touro Law in Central Islip, which would give the state-run school control over one of only two law schools on Long Island.
Then, reporter [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, Eliot Spitzer, state government on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
You can’t say Gov. Eliot Spitzer does nothing for Long Island schools.
The governor today will pay off the Roosevelt School District’s $8 million debt, and promises to support the district until at least 2015.
From the NBC brief:
The state is bailing out the financially troubled Roosevelt School District on Long Island, which has been under state [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged colleges, education, housing, renting on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
At SUNY Old Westbury, if you want to live on campus you better get at least average grades. If not, it’s off to rental land, which we know is a Lilliputian domain on Long Island.
According to a story on Inside Higher Ed, Old Westbury last fall began requiring students housed in campus dorms to maintain [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged colleges, education, Suffolk Community College, Wayne Horsley on November 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Suffolk Community College got some good news at the 2007-2008 SCCC Status Update, hosted by county Legis. Wayne Horsley, D-Lindenhurst. The community college is now the largest community college in the State University of New York system, with a 22.4 percent increase in enrollment.
Also, when it comes to revenue, the college is expected to take [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged commenting, education, taxes on September 19, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Long Islanders want to lower their annual property taxes by at least $3,000, according to Long Island Index’s Fall 2007 Survey. And we all know school taxes make up the bulk of our tax bills.
So how do we reduce school taxes? We all want our children to have the best education as well as the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, law, podcast on September 17, 2007 | No Comments »
For our latest edition of At C Level, host David Reich-Hale chats with Lawrence Raful, dean of Touro Law in Central Islip.
Raful took over the law school’s helm in 2004, right as the campus began a multi-million dollar move to a new location.
Now that Touro is entrenched in its new home, Raful explains why having [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aflac, alternative energy, analysts, education, Kevin Law, LIPA on August 23, 2007 | 8 Comments »
In the end, it wasn’t outcry that a row of windmills in the ocean would diminish the scenic grandeur of the South Shore, and it wasn’t the relatively small amount of energy the windmills would generate either that killed the proposed offshore wind park.
It was the cost, a $700 million price tag that Long Islanders [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CEDX, Dunkin Donuts, education, J.D. Power, LIPA, reports on July 27, 2007 | No Comments »
When it comes to customers’ satisfaction with Eastern power companies, the Long Island Power Authority finished dead last according to a new J.D. Power and Associates report.
The local utility scored 567 on a 1,000-point scale.
Also, National Grid, which will be managing Long Island’s power lines if the state’s Public Service Commission approves its takeover of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged charity, conferences, education, King Kullen, LIPA on July 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Our home-grown grocery chain is an energy star in the mind of the Long Island Power Authority
LIPA said today its work with King Kullen led the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnership to designate the grocer a member of the Northeast Business Leaders for Energy Efficiency.
King Kullen, through its participation in LIPA’s Commercial Construction Program, installed energy-efficient [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alternative energy, analysts, consumer choice, education, LIPA, solar on June 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The Long Island Power Authority today trumpeted its 1,000th solar roof installation on Long Island.
George and Angela Karman installed the solar cells on the roof of their Hicksville home, and the system will likely produce 10,384 kilowatt hours of power during the year, saving them $2,100 annually, LIPA said.
Solar panel roof systems usually cost between [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, Flash Report, gap, hurricanes, LIPA, safety on June 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Long Island Business News will only deliver one of its normally twice-daily Flash Reports tomorrow because we are participating in the Long Island Power Authority’s Island-wide Emergency Drill.
From noon until 3 p.m., in order to simulate one effect a devastating hurricane could inflict on Long Island, our office will turn off all of its lights, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged diversity, education, Eliot Spitzer, food, small business, Steve Bellone on May 14, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s nice to see a local company doing business across our pond even if it suggests Long Island takes its high prices wherever it goes.
Islandia-based Whitsons Culinary Group will serve lunches to hungry schoolchildren in Connecticut’s Norwalk school district.
However, students can look forward to a lunch price hike when Whitsons takes over.
From The Advocate story:
Chief [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged e-mails, education, Internet, Long Island Rail Road, state government, Steve Bellone, Thomas DiNapoli, Tom Suozzi on May 14, 2007 | No Comments »
In 2005, New York state passed a law that makes sense. It demands school board members have some basic understanding of finance if they want to make fiscal decisions for school districts.
Today, new comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says board members can get their training online.
From the Empire State News brief:
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has announced a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged divorce, education, LIPA, safety on May 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Electricity is involved in almost every little thing we do, which is why it’s all the more dangerous. Therefore, the Long Island Power Authority is asking people to be extra electricity safe in May, National Electric Safety Month.
LIPA said it will hold several safety demonstrations and public events in the month to help spread the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, energy, IDA, KeySpan, LIPA, National Grid, Plum Island, rates, state parks, Wal-Mart on April 28, 2007 | No Comments »
If the New York State Public Service Commission approves National Grid’s takeover of Brooklyn-based gas utility KeySpan, then, like it or not, the British utility will have a say in how much you pay for gas and electricity.
But that might be a good thing, if Grid’s activity up north is any indication. National Grid said [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged awards, Connecticut, education, LIPA, mortgage, technology on April 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It’s easy to bellyache over electric rates, but in the eyes of a few energy industry experts, the Long Island Power Authority is ahead of the curve when it comes to technology.
The Houston-based Peak Load Management Alliance presented a 2006 Demand Response Award to our local power authority in the Innovative Application of Technology [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, Eliot Spitzer, Long Island Rail Road, state government, Steve Bellone, technology on April 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The state’s $120.9 billion budget passed late Sunday, and it looks like Long Island’s education system was a big winner.
But where there is a winner, there is a loser.
According to a New York Times story, that loser was Westchester County.
From the story:
More than half of nearly $21 million in new aid for special education went [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, Microsoft Vista, offbeat, Steve Bellone on March 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Not sure the business angle here, unless you consider the other definition of business. But I can’t resist.
A few eighth grade students from Sachem’s Sequoya Middle School got crafty with a few doughnuts today. Instead of jelly, the pranksters handed out doughnuts filled with laxatives.
From the Associated Press story:
“Approximately 18 students ate the doughnuts,” the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, Steve Bellone on March 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Teachers from the East Meadow School District have been without a contract for 30 months. It’s no wonder their unrest is growing.
Last night, a crowd of protesting educators shut down a school board meeting.
From the Associated Press story:
The schools superintendent says he had to call off the meeting because of the size of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Biz Blog Sightseeing, education, energy, LIPA on March 23, 2007 | No Comments »
In honor of the announced deal between the Long Island Power Authority and National Grid, Biz Blog Sightseeing brings you two of Long Island’s derelict power plants, Port Jefferson and Northport.
According to Friday’s announcement, National Grid and LIPA will launch a study of these two plants regarding what it would take to repower them both.
In [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education on March 16, 2007 | No Comments »
The New York State Education Commissioner Richard Mills added 20 schools to the list of those institutions facing registration review if student performance doesn’t improve.
Wyandanch Memorial High School in the Wyandanch school district is Long Island’s addition to that list of 20 for its poor performance in high school English.
However, Mills also removed five schools [...]
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