Newsday: Lee Koppelman’s Legacy Spans Across Long Island
The following op-ed was published in the Tuesday, March 29, 2022 edition of Newsday on page A21....
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Editor’s Note: Document Dump Shows How Facebook is Toxic to Democratic Ideals. The Foggiest Idea Will No Longer Use the Platform
The following was written in response to the revelations about Facebook’s business practices that were recently published in the Wall Street Journal. You can read the series here. By Richard Murdocco Due to the recent...
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Newsday: A Myopic View of Long Island Development
The following op-ed was first published in the March 17, 2021 edition of Newsday on page A23. You...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Capitol Insurrection Is The Dangerous Culmination of Divisive Politics
The following was written in response to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. By Richard Murdocco The storming of the U.S. Capitol Building was a treasonous and disgraceful act, and those who both...
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Editorial Policy Position: TFI Urges Suffolk to Vote NO on Proposal #2/Resolution 547-2020
The following is an editorial policy position being taken for the 2020 election being held on...
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Editor’s Note: The Foggiest Idea Celebrates A Decade of Sound Planning
The following is a note from Richard Murdocco, founder/publisher of The Foggiest Idea, and was...
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Newsday: A Flawed View of Long Island Zoning Rules
The following op-ed was first published in the December 6th, 2019 edition of Newsday on page A25....
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America’s Communities Must Come Together
The following was written for Inside Sources, and published on October 30, 2019. The piece was...
Read MoreNew York Daily News: Give Robert Moses His Due
The following op-ed was published in the July 29, 2019 edition of the New York Daily News. You can read the original version here. The power broker’s legacy is far more complex than most people now assume By Richard...
Read MoreNewsday’s NextLI: What We Should Do About the Future
The following was written for nextLI, a project launched by Newsday that is funded by the Rauch Foundation. nextLI is managed by Newsday’s Opinion department with input from an advisory board made up of Long Islanders. It was...
Read MoreNewsday: Amazon Delivers Hope to Millennials
The following was published in Newsday on November 27th, 2018. You can read the original here. By Richard Murdocco While Queens braces itself for Amazon’s pending arrival, young professionals on Long Island dream of the...
Read MoreNY Daily News: When Amazon Comes, The Suburbs Must Adapt
The following was first published by the NY Daily News on November 21st, 2018. You can read the original here. By Richard Murdocco The region is unprepared for Amazon’s embrace of Queens. But it doesn’t have to be this way. With...
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Temperature records across the NY region are falling one after another with this latest February warm spell.
Our climate sites at Islip and JFK have already broken record high temperatures for 2/16 with readings of 63°. Islip breaks the record of 59°, set in 2018, and JFK breaks the record of 61°, set in 1976.
Other Records:
NYC: 71 (1954)
BDR: 57 (2018)
LGA: 69 (1954)
EWR: 74 (1954)
#YIMBY Twitter may not have liked what I had to say on #housing in my latest @NewsdayOpinion op-ed, but @Newsday readers agree - #LongIsland needs local input on #housing. You can read a sampling of their published thoughts here: https://www.thefoggiestidea.org/2023/02/14/newsday-readers-respond-to-murdocco-ask-hochul-to-find-open-housing-space/
Many thanks to Raymond Janis of @TBRNewsMedia for taking the time to talk to myself, @EdRomaine @NYAssemblyBrown and others about the prospect of the @MTA electrifying the @LIRR's Port Jefferson Branch. You can read his piece here: https://tbrnewsmedia.com/port-jeff-branch-riders-face-potentially-decades-more-electrification-woes/ #LIRR #GetaFoggyIdea