Events

This morning Huntington Town, Supervisor, Frank Petrone discussed his administrations efforts to create a better Huntington. He credited the work of the then, town councilman, Steve Israel, and himself for forging an alliance across party lines. Israel was and is a Democrat and he was a Republican. They both saw the benefit of working together…

With the state budget resraints and the accumulated needs of the state, how are going to move forward? This and other questions will come up at our meeting. We need to know what sacrifices can and will be made. Please join us to hear from Mr. DiNapoli. Tom is a hard working and thoughtful elected official.…

  This morning we had a slightly different format. The speakers gave us their take on the state of the schools and what a perverse effect taxes have had on our region. 5th Assembly representative Ginny Fields and 7th Assembly representative Mike Fitzpatrick gave us opening statements on school taxes and the reason for out…

Ms Williams will bring us up to date on initiatives that will have been announced at that time. Please join us.

This morning our speaker, County Executive Steve Levy began by taking back to where he believes the problems of under funding began.    The county depends on having sales taxes. A 1-cent reduction in sales taxes causes a revenue loss of  $12million.  “Governments provide everything to everybody when times are good. The real problem comes…

Mr. Foley began by reviewing the origins of the revenue shortfalls. The reduction in income tax receipts derived from mega-bucks bonuses on Wall Street, and reduced sales taxes being among the causes. We did not discuss any remedies, because frankly, there are none on the horizon.   The Senator went on to review some of…

Alan Doctor was our speaker at LIMBA this morning. Alan is the Director for Business Development at CUNY Center for Advanced Technology. The unit assists businesses that are developing new techniques.   Mr. Doctor outlined the requirements that allow a business to get assistance. The economic impact is what is important. If it can be…

Our speaker this morning was Dr Steven Dierker Associate Director of Brookhaven National Laboratories. The topic of discussion was the new National Synchrotron Light Source II. This project has been in the planning stage for a long time. The NLSL II will be working with light in the X-ray range. The promise of the research…