Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy on Thursday signed into law a bill requiring scrap metal processors and buyers to follow new guidelines that would help police track thieves who pawn stolen material.
The law is the first in the state to impose criminal prevention requirements on scrap metal dealers. The law requires all purchasers of scrap metal, [...]
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Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy today emceed the New York Metropolitan Transit Council’s Regional Commuter Choice Awards, honoring employers who do the most to reduce vehicle emissions by participating in rideshare programs.
Levy honored seven local companies for participating in the county’s rideshare program, which organizes carpools.
They are:
Broadridge Financial
Computer Associates
Empire BlueCross BlueShield
Air Techniques
Clearvision Optical
Calico Cottage
Suffolk County
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Suffolk County delivered a promised blow to the state, today, pulling 25 percent of the county’s Highway Patrol Unit off of the Long Island Expressway and Sunrise Highway and redeploying the officers to other areas.
Since the LIE and Sunrise are state roads, Levy has asked the state for additional troopers so county offices can focus [...]
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For those of you wondering how Long Island is going to meet rising energy demand now that the Broadwater liquefied natural gas facility has been banished from consideration … join the club.
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy said today he will hold an “Energy Summit” on July 24 with government officials including Connecticut Attorney General Richard [...]
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Suffolk County has set up a hotline for residents to report certain types of dead birds that may be infected with the West Nile Virus.
Call (631) 787-2200 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Leave a message to report birds discovered in the evening and early morning hours.
The birds in question are the [...]
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Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy is asking the state Department of Transportation to dramatically bump up the amount of money given to the county.
Levy said Suffolk receives $35 million less from the state than Nassau County receives in bus aid, and $25 million less than Westchester County. Suffolk is the largest suburban county in the [...]
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Long Island WINS sent an open letter to Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy late Thursday, imploring him to no longer appear on cable news shows hosted by Lou Dobbs, Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck because of a recent report by the Media Matters Action Network entitled “Fear and Loathing in Prime Time - Immigration Myths and Cable [...]
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Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy announced late yesterday that the point of delivery (POD) concept in place for the last year at the Marilyn Shellabarger Health Center in Shirley is going to be implemented at other county health centers, beginning in Riverhead.
The POD model has been influential cutting down the wait time for patients and [...]
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The Suffolk County Legislature has approved Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy’s plan to dredge Stony Brook Harbor.
The Legislature recently approved spending $50,000 to survey the harbor, which is split between the towns of Smithtown and Brookhaven. The survey will map the topography of the harbor and identify key areas that should be dredged to improve [...]
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Back in April, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy told Long Island Business News he didn’t know why the media was so apt to declare the county’s Wi-Fi plans to be as dead as dead can be.
Well, it could be because not a single good bit of news has come out surrounding the county’s chosen architect [...]
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The state has apparently taken Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi and Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy seriously.
After the duo on April Fool’s Day threatened to pull county police from patrolling state roads, a measure that would save them about $12 million, the state today will takeover the responsibility. State troopers will now patrol those roads.
So [...]
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Want to know how we know? By the numerous e-mails by various local politicians we’ve been receiving touting their many Earth Day exploits.
Perhaps the most prolific Earth Day politician is Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, who has a day full of events planned.
Here’s what we know about Suozzi’s Earth Day calendar:
11 a.m.: Suozzi signed the [...]
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We called it dead, and so did other media outlets, but Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy assures us the plan to blanket Long Island with a municipal Wi-Fi system is at least breathing.
Suffolk County yesterday approved the pilot locations for the project — along the Route 110 corridor in Huntington and in Nassau’s Eisenhower Park. [...]
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The New York Times editorial board has seen Long Island’s Wi-Fi plans for what they are: a long shot.
After Newsday ran an article this week about the nowhere-state of Long Island’s municipal Wi-Fi plans, which was a dead ringer for an article Long Island Business News ran one month ago, the respected New York paper [...]
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Republican Lee Zeldin, the man who will likely run against Rep. Tim Bishop for a seat in Congress, has taken up one of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy’s biggest issues. The political hopeful, who once served as an aide to state Sen. Kenneth P. Lavalle, said if after elected the county does not break ground [...]
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The Gateway to the South Fork has been completed.
County Executive Steve Levy will officially christen the new County Road 39 at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, marking the end of construction to add a second eastbound lane with a continuous center turning lane on the 4 1/2 miles connecting Sunrise and Montauk highways.
Construction on the two-phase [...]
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As a result of increased unfunded state mandates and continued budget cuts to Long Island, Nassau and Suffolk county executives Tom Suozzi and Steve Levy are proposing scaling back county police patrol forces on state roads, including the Long Island Expressway.
Starting May 1, patrols on LIE, Sunrise Highway and Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway will be [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Steve Levy, Suffolk on March 18, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy will be going back to school Wednesday morning to ask third, fourth and fifth graders at Cherokee Elementary School in Ronkonkoma what new laws they want to see countywide.
The LI Biz Blog expects the kids to suggest daylong recess, free ice cream at lunch and county-mandated naptime for everyone.
It’s part of Levy’s [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Long Island, Long Island Index, Steve Levy, Suffolk on February 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
More than 100 developers, civic leaders, community activists, elected officials and not-for-profit organizers spent Tuesday morning at the Dennison Building in Hauppauge talking smart growth.
Not a bad crowd for the day after a holiday, said Michael White, the executive director of the Long Island Regional Planning Board.
The large crowd was due to Paul Beyer, the [...]
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LI Biz Blog loves feedback. From important debates on top issues, to making witty captions for photos, this blog won’t stop until every reader has at least commented once, or participated in one contest.
So here’s a new contest, one you’ll see more of. It’s called “Web site wars.”
We’ll present two Web sites of either politicians, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged construction, immigration, Steve Levy on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Credit Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, scourge of illegal immigrants, for not resting until he got his man.
That’s right; a man, as in one guy. The New York Times broke a story this morning on a couple of county dragnets that turned up the one, single, solitary immigrant whose papers were not in order.
You remember [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Steve Levy, Suffolk on February 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy gave his State of the County Address at Touro Law Center on Wednesday night in front of about 300 political insiders and county staff.
He spoke for 45 minutes and gave a laundry list of county accomplishments and new proposals.
Here are some highlights of Levy’s address:
Suffolk County has cut its portion [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Broadwater, Connecticut, energy, Steve Levy on February 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Long Island and Connecticut, from opposite sides of the Long Island Sound, often oppose each other when it comes to Sound issues. For example, the Nutmeg state has fought hard to stop the Islander East pipeline, which would deliver natural gas to Long Island via a pipe running along the bottom of the Sound.
Connecticut is [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged NIMBY, Steve Levy on January 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy channeled his inner David Letterman this morning at the Crest Hollow Country Club, starting his speech with a timeless joke. The story goes, Levy recently spoke so long at a senior citizens event, one of the attendees had to stand up and leave in order “to go get a haircut.” [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Long Island Index, Steve Levy on January 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy is next to discuss the Long Island Index. He’s actually here.
Here’s a synopsis of his statement:
Thanks, thanks.
We have a lot to do, but we have a lot going for us, low crime rate, etc., but we have many challenges as well.
We want housing, but we don’t want more traffic, we [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brownfields, Steve Levy, Suffolk on January 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Brownfields. The name alone suggests all-but-forgotten parcels, defiled and cumbersome lots we’d all like to sweep under the rugs. But someone must want these polluted plots, right?
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy believes so. His county just made a cool $3 million through auctioning off tax delinquencies on brownfields.
In August 2007, according to the county’s statement, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged crime, Steve Levy, Suffolk on January 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy is starting his second term on a high note. The politician this week bragged that the county has experienced a 10.97 percent drop in crime during the last four years (Levy’s first term).
Further singing his county’s praises, Levy said he was able to keep crime at bay without spending too [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Steve Levy, Suffolk on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy’s office just sent over excerpts from his second inaugural address.
Enjoy.
So, we’re faced with interesting challenges – preserving the best of the suburbia that drew us here in the first place, while simultaneously adapting to the changes that we’re experiencing as a maturing suburb.
We want to preserve our open spaces, and, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Steve Levy, Suffolk on January 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy took his second oath of office on Sunday after winning a second term hands down in November.
Levy doesn’t seem to be going anywhere for a while, so do you have any requests, hopes, goals, etc. you’d like the politician to meet in this new term?
From the News 12 story:
Supporters [...]
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