Events

Our speaker this morning was Ken Morelly, President of the Long Island Forum for Technology. Ken spoke about the future for technology companies on Long Island. He described the future years of 'backlog' of work already placed with major Long Island companies from defense contracts.In addition, Ken spoke about homeland security, touching on the organization…

Today we had a presentation by, Patrick Foye, the new President of United Way of Long Island.His presentation emphasized the efficiency of the organization with 85% or more of the raised revenues going directly to the agencies that benefit from a relationship with United Way.Pat discussed the size of philanthropy on Long Island in terms…

Long Island "Yesterday Today and Tomorrow" Today Jerry Kremer was our speaker. After the usual announcements Bob Gaffney took on the responsibility of introducing his good friend. Bob expressed a deep respect for Jerry' grasp of the budget when he was in Albany. According to Mr. affney there was little chance that Mr. Kremer would…

Dan Walsh, President of The Business Council of NY was our speaker this morning at LIMBA. Dan is an advocate for the business community and has a multitude of issues to deal with. Our meeting was too short to fully explain the scope of the Council mission, but he did talk about the need for…

This morning's meeting was thought provoking and cautionary. Mr. Balboni cited many concerns he has about the way Homeland Security is being administered. In some cases the threat is not being adequately addressed or not being addressed at all. Containers being shipped into the US are largely unsurveiled. First Responders in New York still do…

This morning’s meeting was as refreshing as an ocean breeze. In fact that was the topic. Off Shore wind generation of electric power is a technology of significant promise. Peter Mandelstam of Blue Water Wind was expected to speak to the LIMBA audience on the topic. However he had another commitment. Instead we heard from…