Events

This morning we had a panel discussion on real estate led by Marie Zere of Zere Real Estate. The other participants were Ted Sasso president of Renaissance Real Estate Service and Don Gallagher president of Gallagher Associates Sasso began by telling us there is more office & commercial space on Long Island than in all…

This morning our speaker was Nassau County District Attorney, Kathleen Rice. Kathleen has all the youthful enthusiasm we get from newly elected officials. She told us that she never remembers having political ambitions growing up, and her ambition today is to serve two terms and leave. That's a promise often made and rarely kept.  In…

Scott Passeser, Director of Industrial Outreach for Stony Brook University’s Economic Development programs, spoke at LIMBA this morning              Scott was able to provide some interesting stats on the needed workforce. While we are lamenting the existence of high paid manufacturing jobs there is no shortage of high tech jobs. There is, in fact, a…

LIMBA will be holding its second Karaoke Networking evening. We will be holding it again at Dave & Busters in Islandia. We have asked the fabulous Anita Bloom to run the Karaoke and perform. She was great the last time and will be again.

This past Friday our speaker was Gary Bessemer. Mr Bessemer represents a group called Long Islanders for Educational Reform.  Mr Bessemer's message pointed out some problems that are costing the taxpayers a lot more than our educational system should. His contention is that good stewardship has not been practiced. This was borne out by some…

Lawrence gray was a prosecutor that has had notable success prosecuting corrupt public officials in the city of New York and seems to have a keen sense of smell when dealing with official corruption. As our guest this morning, Mr Gray was forthcoming and  disturbing. Disturbing if you think your public officials are always doing…

This morning's program was a panel discussion about health and wellness as well as the aspects of insurance. The panel consisted of three experts with different perspective. Mike Mussler of Edwards Insurance, Dr Mathew Lewis, president of Health maintenance company and John (last name will be inserted later)  a health program administrator from St Joseph's College Mussler…

Ken Morelly, President of LIFT, Long Island Forum for Technology, was  our speaker this morning, and as promised, gave us some insights. LIFT is engaged in research, education and the coordination of efforts among various groups. Morelly stated that the great driver of technology is manufacturing. Using resources to leverage the manufacturing process is among…

This week our speaker  was KC Sahl of Blue Water Wind. When Mr. Sahl gave his presentation this morning he began with a film of the project that has been proposed off the coast of Delaware. In that region the public response was considerably different from the proposal that was advanced by Florida Power &…