Public Comments: Changing Dynamics of Retail in Town of Smithtown
The following comments were submitted on October 18th, 2019 to the Smithtown Board of Zoning...
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After Half A Century Of Living in the Past, Smithtown Finds the Time Is Right for a Change
The following was published exclusively on The Foggiest Idea on March 29th, 2019. Want to support The Foggiest Idea’s award-winning coverage of the issues that matter? Click here. By Richard Murdocco In 1961, John F. Kennedy was...
Read MoreSuffolk’s New Arena Selection Shouldn’t Have Come As A Surprise
The following was first published on The Foggiest Idea on April 16, 2018. After Suffolk County’s sudden announcement on April 8 that it had accepted a proposal to build a 17,500-seat arena on a 40-acre stretch of vacant land...
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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