Public Comments: Nassau Comptroller Maragos’ Nassau 2025
The following was read for the public record on February 26, 2015 Good afternoon. My name is Richard Murdocco. I am a lifelong Long Islander, and at 28, am a young professional who is currently building a life in the region. I have my Masters in Public Policy...
All Style, No Substance
It would seem to an outsider after reading recent headlines in various local and regional newspapers that Long Island is short on high paying jobs, yet has surplus amounts of taxes to go around. To make matters worse, the roads are decaying, downtowns are dying and...
Is Long Island’s Future Biomedical?
The Long Island Index, partnering with the Long Island Association, issued a new report yesterday that explores expanding the biomedical sector on Long Island, along with the creation of expanded housing opportunities to help support this growth and the workers it...
Long Island Is Dying…Yet Again
As my friend Jim Russell, a demographer who writes for Pacific Standard Magazine would say, it seems that Long Island is dying…yet again. A new survey, conducted by Jeffery Guillot’s Suburban Millennial Institute has shown that 64% of young adult Long Islanders are...
The 2015 Blizzard Bust
The following was written for Long Island Business News. The Nor'easter churning up the Atlantic Coast had the Tri-State region on edge since Friday. New York's Governor Cuomo enacted a travel ban spanning 13 downstate counties across New York. The LIRR and Metro...
Infrastructure Please
From a local village nestled in the hills of Long Island’s North Shore, all the way up to President Obama giving his State of the Union address, it seems like every policymaker is focusing on America’s crumbling infrastructure.This focus is long overdue. The simple...
A Broader Mix of Housing, and Then Some
Recently, Ann Golob and Nancy Rauch-Douzinas, both from the Long Island Index, wrote individual op-eds on Long Island’s housing mix that appeared on the pages of LIBN and in the Huffington Post. The pieces, like many before them, argue that the key to Long Island’s...
The Foggiest Idea in Newsday: January 9, 2015
The following Letter to the Editor was published in the January 9, 2015 edition of Newsday on page A34. The online letter can be read here. While it's notable that Long Island is moving forward on some of its larger-scale, transformative projects, caution should still...
A Zero-Sum Game
It seems 2015 is hitting the ground running, with influential Long Islanders touting the need for more apartments, more sewers and the need to keep the region’s young people “downtown.” From the comments of panelists, predictions to media by industry people and...
The Big Questions of 2014
This was a busy year on Long Island. From pending megaprojects in Islip to the ever-changing roles of IDAs, the region is looking at a transformative 2015. Will Long Islanders learn from 2014 and it’s common themes? All too often throughout 2014, the solutions Long...
