Quick Hits: Remnants of Ida Tear Through New York Region With Record Rains, Killing 43
The following are quick hits of reporting and editorial analysis from The Foggiest Idea on the...
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As Suffolk Wages War On Nitrogen, Other Threats to Region’s Waters Demand Attention
The following was published exclusively on The Foggiest Idea on January 30th, 2019. Want to...
Read MoreQuoted by Karl Grossman: Suffolk is Suffocating
The following is an excerpt from a column written by Karl Grossman, and published on May 26, 2018. The column appeared in publications across Long Island, including the Shelter Island Reporter. You can read the entire piece...
Read MoreLong Island Pulse: The Future of Transit on Long Island
The following op-ed was published through Long Island Pulse Magazine on March 9, 2017. You can read the original piece here. Between the crash of Long Island’s housing market in 2008, and a lack of cheap vacant land, Long...
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The Real Deal: New Infrastructure Investment May Bolster Development
The following was originally published in The Real Deal’s Long Island Market edition in...
Read MoreSuffolk Shouldn’t Have to Chop Down Trees to Let Solar Panels Spring Up
The following was written for the Long Island Press, and published on May 25, 2016. You can read the original here. A troubling new trend in Suffolk County is pitting environmentalists against civic groups: clear cutting...
Read MorePublic Comment on NYMTC Plan 2045, May 12, 2016
The following comments were delivered during a public hearing on NYMTC’s Plan 2045 on May 12, 2016 at the Nassau County Legislature. My name is Richard Murdocco, and I am the founder and publisher of The Foggiest Idea, and...
Read MoreWishing is No Substitute for Planning
The following was written for the Long Island Press in April 2015. You can read the original here. Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone’s Connect Long Island idea has become a project that relies upon assumptions instead of...
Read MoreIs Caithness II The Next Shoreham?
Long Island may be getting a new power plant. The big question is whether or not Caithness II is sound planning or the next Shoreham. The approvals are rolling in – recently Brookhaven’s town board voted 5-2 to approve a special...
Read MoreSuburbia itself isn’t the problem. We are.
From shameful illegal dumping in Islip to land deals that reek of cronyism in Bethpage, it’s just embarrassing at this point. Time and time again we see well-meaning reports that tout we need more development to fix our regional...
Read MoreBetting on Legacy Village Again
As seen on Three Village Patch: Legacy Village is dead, but the battle is not yet over for both environmentalists and the community of Yaphank. As Dick Amper, executive director of the Pine Barrens Society, always asks… “What’s...
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Looks like more storms are coming through too…
This afternoon’s thunderstorm was serious business - In one of the loudest sounds I’ve ever heard, lightning split a 75-year old Tulip tree! @NWSNewYorkNY
I used to love riding the M3s to Manhattan (when the AC was working!)
Some interesting points...
1. Commuters interviewed didn't seem to mind the retro M3s returning
2. The @LIRR kept the M3s in storage, almost as if it was in anticipation of the M9s being further delayed.
Meanwhile on that slender riotous island …
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/transportation/lirr-m3-train-cars-m9-ygpbfp8a
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