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Improving the environment doesn’t always entail a big undertaking. It can start small, with local, eco-friendly initiatives like . . . more
My parents were worried the moment I laid eyes on the apartment for the very first time. It was the entire top floor of a car dealership just off what would eventually become Interstate 86, at the edge of the Finger Lakes region upstate. This would be my first apartment — my first home outside the family home where I grew up in Pennsylvania. more
Really, the world outside is conspiring to corrupt us. The mindless chatter is deafening, the distractions are pervasive . . . more
Summer leaves some school-aged kids scrambling to find a healthy meal, since they can’t depend on the federally subsidized breakfast and lunch programs at their school. more
Roughly 221,000 people on Long Island suffer from food insecurity, according to Feeding America, a charity that works to end hunger in the U.S. Ahead of the Fourth of July weekend, Senator Steve … more
Most Long Islanders are rightly confused about who is responsible for our ever-rising electricity bills. We get our electric bills from PSEG, yet there's also the Long Island Power Authority, as well as National Grid. Who does what? more
In the Dec. 2-8 issue, I invited readers to say how they were getting through the coronavirus pandemic so far, noting that all eyes were on the Omicron variant, and that our stories would surely evolve. Thank you so much for sharing these snippets of your lives. more
Taxes, property assessments, crime and schools were top concerns for Long Island politicians in the Nov. 2 elections. Both Democrats and Republicans tried to persuade voters that . . . more
To help answer some questions, and to alleviate anxiety parents may have about vaccinating their children, Nassau County Legislator Arnold Drucker and State Senators Kevin Thomas, Jim Gaughran and Anna Kaplan partnered with the American Academy of Pediatrics to host a virtual panel on May 26, at which parents could ask pediatricians questions. more
Island Harvest Food Bank, the largest hunger-relief organization on Long Island, purchased an industrial property in Melville in March for $8.1 million. The 43,560-square-foot building, on three acres of property, is twice the size of its former headquarters in Hauppauge. more
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