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Identifying Your Defining Skill

The following was written for Stony Brook University's Alumni Sharing Knowledge (ASK) Blog. By design, a degree defines your set of skills in the job marketplace. Or does it? “Bachelor of Arts in Political Science” would denote that one should be studying the...

Shoveling Against the Tide

Hey gang, studies are showing that the brain drain is hitting Long Island. Let’s keep these young people! How? Let’s build cool downtown apartments. Put them right by the train station. Let’s give ‘em Wi-Fi for their iPads and smartphones. Most importantly: Let’s make...

Common Sense

When it comes to policymaking on Long Island, it’s time for some common sense. We say that our taxes are too high, that our roads are too congested and yet we let invested groups shape the very policies that drive all of these factors, and are then surprised that...

Made On Long Island

Once, the sounds of industry echoed across Long Island. Once, the product of thousands of hours of labor thundered overhead. But now, these companies and their quality jobs are gone, and we’re worse off for it. Across the region, areas that once created jet engines,...

Beyond Islip

Is the fate of the region in the Town of Islip’s hands? Recently, the Town of Islip’s Planning Board approved Islip Pines, Serota’s longstanding development proposal for a 136 acre tract of land along Sunrise Highway. For decades, the civic community, chambers of...

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