Listen to this article The Long Island Limousine Association (LILA), a professional organization with more than 70 member companies, has launched a new tip line to report unlicensed drivers. The effort comes amid holiday season, when the organization is urging people to hire licensed operators to get to the airport, celebrations and other destinations. According…
Listen to this article Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his father and namesake, a merchant farmer and local politician who went by “Mr. Earl,” prompted the submariner…
Listen to this article Construction employment on Long Island saw a year-over-year increase for the ninth month in a row in November, according to a new report from the Associated General Contractors of America. Nassau and Suffolk counties gained 4,100 construction jobs from Nov. 2023 to Nov. 2024, a 5 percent year-over-year increase, rising from 81,300…
Listen to this article Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The longest-lived American president died on…
Listen to this article Two Long Island behavioral health organizations have received funding from New York State. The awards are part of $3.5 million in conditional start-up funding from the state’s Office of Mental Health (OMH) to establish 13 new certified community behavioral health clinics. The clinics are to be designed to provide integrated mental…
Listen to this article Two Long Island behavioral health organizations have received funding from New York State. The awards are part of $3.5 million in conditional start-up funding from the state’s Office of Mental Health (OMH) to establish 13 new certified community behavioral health clinics. The clinics are to be designed to provide integrated mental…
Listen to this article Five Long Island municipalities were awarded more than $3.72 million from the state’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (LWRP). The money is part of $14.2 million of LWRP funds awarded to 21 communities statewide, according to an announcement Thursday from the New York State Department of State. The program provides grants to communities…
Listen to this article Charles F. Dolan, who founded some of the most prominent U.S. media companies including Home Box Office Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp., has died at age 98, according to a news report. A statement issued Saturday by his family said Dolan died of natural causes, Newsday reported late Saturday. “It is…
Listen to this article A controversial measure that charges oil and gas companies billions of dollars was signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul Thursday. The Climate Change Superfund Act imposes a total of $3 billion a year in fees to the largest oil and gas firms for the negative impacts that fossil fuels have…
Listen to this article The City of Glen Cove was awarded $150,000 from New York State’s Smart Growth Community Planning Program, which is designed to help facilitate walkable downtowns, small businesses, affordable housing and more. The funding is part of $3 million awarded to 15 communities. The program provides grants to communities to develop municipal…