I was in the Millennium Diner in Smithtown, speaking to one of my insurance clients over breakfast. “A plane just crashed into the Twin Towers!” someone shouted. I assumed it…

There is a painting by the French artist, Jean-François Millet, titled “Man with a Hoe,” from 1862. This painting inspired American poet Edwin Markham to write a heart wrenching poem…

Celebrating July 4th has had many meanings in the different years of my life. When I was a boy, I lived by the bay and that meant swimming, fishing, motorboat races…

As seen in the NY Real Estate Journal Commack, NY On June 6, Kelly Murphy, executive director and CEO of the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency (IDA), will be the featured…

We have been told that America fielded 10 million men and women in uniform during WWII. But the truth is the people at home were serving their country too. We…

Carrie Meek Gallagher, the Long Island Regional Director of the Public Service Commission, was the guest speaker at the LIMBA (Long Island Metro Business Action) meeting that was held on…