This morning, Long Island’s leaders gathered at Carlyle on the Green for the second time as The Long Island Business News hosted its second Publisher’s Breakfast Series discussing the brain drain and career education.
The breakfast was led by Matt Crosson, president of the Long Island Association, who gave a PowerPoint presentation on Long Island’s career [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in LI Biz, Long Island government, Nassau, Suffolk, politicians, state government, tagged 51st state, Howard Weitzman, Joseph Sawicki, Long Island Association on June 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Suffolk County Comptroller Joseph Sawicki isn’t giving up on the state of Long Island.
Talking to the Long Island Association this morning, Sawicki couldn’t help but bring up how much of a better financial situation both Nassau and Suffolk counties would be in if they didn’t send $3 billion to $4 billion to Albany each year, [...]
Read Full Post »
Long Island Business News has been following news of two affordable housing bills currently being hashed out in Albany.
The first, sponsored by the Long Island Association, mandates any developer that builds five or more units include 10 percent of the project as affordable housing. However, the bill defines affordable as a property a family that [...]
Read Full Post »
Much has been made of the fact that young Long Islanders are deciding to leave in droves. From 2000 to 2005, the number of Nassau and Suffolk residents ages 25 to 34 fell by more than 30,000. The region also lost 22,000 residents between 35-and-44 years of age.
It’s a staggering problem and many experts cite [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Long Island Association on February 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s what we learned from Long Island Association’s roundtable political discussion with Sean Hannity, Tim Russert and James Carville: Hannity can do a great Bill Clinton imitation.
Beyond that, the trio spent the better part of two hours debating traditional Democratic and Republican differences and discussing the remaining presidential candidates: Republican Sen. John McCain, Democratic Sen. [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Long Island Association on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
The Long Island Association announced today that the former prime minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair, will speak at the organization’s fall luncheon on Sept. 18.
Want to go? It’ll cost you - a table for 12 will set you back $4,000.
Blair was prime minister from 1997 to 2007.
The LIA made the announcement at today’s luncheon [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Long Island Association on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Michael Samuels will be filing a full report on libn.com later today, but here is a quick update from Crest Hollow Country Club, where Sean Hannity and James Carville are debating at the Long Island Association’s annual luncheon.
Hannity will vote for John McCain if he gets the nomination. He won’t vote for Hillary Clinton. There [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Long Island Association on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Michael H. Samuels and I will be at the Long Island Association’s Annual Meeting and Luncheon today at Crest Hollow Country Club, where James Carville and Sean Hannity will blow enough political wind to keep the room warm.
Perhaps Hannity could explain to us why he and his right-wing talk show cohorts are in hysterics over [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged deaths, LIMBA, Long Island Association on February 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Long Island should have more people like this.
Sadly, Irwin Hansen, a regular face at Long Island Association events and Long Island MidSuffolk Business Action meetings, died yesterday. He was 92. LI Biz Blog remembers how Hansen was always more than glad to tout to the ideas that would make this region a better place in [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Long Island Association on December 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Long Island Association’s annual meeting is all set and Tim Russert of NBC, Sean Hannity of Fox News and political operative James Carville will be on hand for a debate, er, discussion, about where the 2008 presidential election is headed.
The 9 a.m. event is scheduled for Feb. 14 at Crest Hollow Country Club in [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged economy, Long Island Association, Thomas DiNapoli on December 5, 2007 | 4 Comments »
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli outlined his “2007 Economic Trends Report” at the Long Island Association’s annual Executive Breakfast held this morning at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. The politician also spoke about a few of his budget reform ideas.
The former assemblyman, in his report, showed that wages on Long Island in 2006 grew [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Long Island Association, media on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Here we go, television journalists Tucker Carlson, Jim Leher and George Stephanopoulos are poised to speak. LIA President Matt Crosson will moderate the conversation. He’ll pose questions, he’ll accept questions from the audience. He also warned people not to use the microphones to make speeches of their own, just ask the questions. (A few people [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged LIPA, Long Island Association on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m sitting with LIPA … so where’s James Larocca?
Where’s Kevin Law, oh he’s on sitting with Suffolk. Richie Kessel, he’s sitting up front with the LIA board.
And why is this chicken cold? (I wonder what Richie thinks about this chicken.)
Also, George Stephanopoulos is late.
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Charles Schumer, Long Island Association on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
But first, here’s Sen. Charles Schumer for a quick federal update.
It has been a good few months in Washington concerning Long Island. They’ve secured heavy funding for Brookhaven National Lab. The Feds supplied money to build the new Lightsource and the relativistic heavy ion collider. (Does he know it has already been built?) He says [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Long Island Association on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, I’m here at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury for the Long Island Association’s Fall Luncheon. It took longer to park than it did to drive here from our Ronkonkoma offices. It’s packed, which usually is the case for major LIA events.
So here’s what is going to happen: Veteran news personalities Bob Scheiffer, [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Long Island Association on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Famous, powerful Long Islanders will litter Crest Hollow Country Club tomorrow for the Long Island Association’s Fall Luncheon.
So, of course, Henry and I will be there blogging the entire event, from the rubber chicken lunch to the planned speeches by George Stephanopoulos, Jim Lehrer and Bob Schieffer.
Come and say hello - we will be walking [...]
Read Full Post »
Long Island’s environmental issues affect us all, so it makes sense that a major business group would invite the public to discuss what’s happening, and what we can do to change things.
On Sept. 19, the Long Island Association, with the help of representatives from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office, will hold an [...]
Read Full Post »
The first woman president of the Long Island Rail Road, Helena Williams, was supposed to speak at the Long Island Association this morning. That’s why I got in my car at 6:45 a.m. and inched my way from Port Jefferson to Melville this morning. I got here at 8:30 a.m.
But I guess all of that [...]
Read Full Post »
Doctors from Stony Brook University Hospital are going gain extra experience treating some serious diseases in children, but they’ll have to travel to do so.
The hospital said it with cooperate with Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia by sending resident physicians from its pediatrics department to train there. Doctors will treat children afflicted [...]
Read Full Post »
Can you believe it?
The Long Island Association, one of the region’s largest business interest groups, announced its support of Broadwater, a liquid natural gas barge planned for the middle of the Long Island Sound.
The project already earned support from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, but it is still awaiting a thumbs up from the New [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Long Island Association, pets on March 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday, Long Island Business News reported on the death of Jack Kennedy, president of the Nassau/Suffolk Building and Construction Trades Council and a member of the Long Island Association board of directors.
If you knew Mr. Kennedy, or would like to pay respect to his family, below is the schedule for the services.
Wake: [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aflac, Long Island Association on March 15, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Quite a few financial companies were at the Long Island Association’s trade show this morning at Crest Hollow Country Club.
New York Community Bank, People’s Alliance Federal Credit Union and Commerce Bank were among them. But our favorite? Aflac.
How would you like to be this dedicated employee? You get to carry a giant duck through the [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eliot Spitzer, Long Island Association on March 15, 2007 | No Comments »
LI Biz Blog is live from the Crest Hollow Country Club, thanks to this crystal clear and oh so speedy free Wi-Fi connection courtesy of the Crest Hollow Country Club, where Gov. Eliot Spitzer gave a speech that any economics professor would drool over.
Spitzer’s speech was basically an outline of his proposed budget, and [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Globecomm, James Baker, Long Island Association on February 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Here are a few choice selections from James Baker’s speech to members of the Long Island Association:
- “Sadly, we cannot formulate or implement American foreign policy according to the principles of Mother Theresa.”
- He compared the United States to the Roman Empire and Napoleonic France.
- He said the United States is the only global power.
- [...]
Read Full Post »
James Baker is speaking right now.
A few highlights:
- His first wife died in 1970, leaving him grief-stricken. A friend of his tried to lift his spirits and told him “you have to help me run for senate.” Baker responded “I’m a Democrat.” His friend was George H. W. Bush. Baker “converted” and the rest is [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Austin Travel, JetBlue, Long Island Association on February 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
JetBlue’s decision to launch a customer’s bill of rights and offer free tickets doesn’t solve much of anything, says Larry Austin, who heads Austin Travel, a well known travel agency chain.
“They should have anticipated this,” Austin said, as he took a break from networking at the Long Island Association’s annual meeting. “They knew we were [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged James Baker, Long Island Association, President Bush on February 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Former Secretary of State James Baker just told a small gathering of journalists that President Bush’s plan to increase the troops in Iraq is consistent with the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, which Baker co-chaired.
Baker said the president’s plan is acceptable because it’s a “temporary surge” and is endorsed by a U.S. commander on [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged government, Long Island Association on February 5, 2007 | No Comments »
The five members of Long Island’s congressional delegation met at the Long Island Association’s Melville headquarters, and though each spoke of how unified the delegation is when it comes to Long Island issues, each had their own agenda to promote.
Homeland security committee ex-chairman Peter King (an interesting episode of laughter occurred when LIA Chairman Matt [...]
Read Full Post »
