Events

Richard Kessel has had an interesting career. Today he addressed the LIMBA audience as the President and CEO of the New York Power Authority. NYPA, Kessel told us, is the largest public power company in the nation. He sees his role as a reformer of that authority. He revisited briefly his tenure at LIPA. The…

Reflecting its concern with island-wide issues, Chairman Ernie Fazio today announced that LIMBA is updating the words behind the acronym.  LIMBA, henceforth will be known as Long Island Metro Business Action.  Having grown beyond its initial mandate, it is time for the organization to adopt a more suitable moniker for its mission.  In keeping with…

The economic news from our speaker, State Senator Ken LaValle, was not particularly good. On the other hand, we knew that the economy is in stress. We asked the senator to talk about taxes and he did. The tax cap that was introduced under the last Albany administration resulted in property tax increases that ranged…

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This morning’s LIMBA meeting was a little unusual. We had an off-site meeting that was hosted by Brookhaven National Laboratories at their location. BNL is an enormously important research center…

We had the pleasure of welcoming to our June 5th meeting, Robert Yaro, head of the Regional Plan Association. Robert gave a talk and engaged in Q & A about…

Members and friends, Our round table discusion revisited some of the goals to see where we are, and then we discussed the Long Island Economy from the various points of…

Ms Ash has not yet confirmed her appearance at LIMBA