Events

This morning, despite the snow we had our regular Friday morning meeting. We ordered a cake to celebrate Paul Townsend's birthday. Paul and Terry could not get out of their driveway, so we wished him a happy birthday in absentia.. The topic was the Broadwater proposal to create a liquefied natural gas depot in Long…

 Another friday morning, another stimulating LIMBA session, worth rising early for.  Today we had Michael Posillico speak on the utilization of Brownfields sites as starting points for redevelopment.  Michael, a scion of one of the families that built out the island, has his own firm, Blue Water Environmental, specializing in remediation of these sites.  Along…

 Fred Krebs, the president of Long Island's freight rail system spoke to our LIMBA audience this morning. Fred started by telling us those facts that he is, and should be, proud of. That is the fact that the number of freight cars on Long Island has more than doubled since he and his company, NY…

Our speaker this morning was Greenport mayor, David Kapell. In my promotion of this morning's meeting I promised an interesting meeting. I can reassure it was an understatement. The audience was impressed.. Comments like "Mayor Kapell should teach a required course on governing to the rest of Long Island's elected officials" were heard. Mr. Kapell…

I had the feeling that this morning's presentation had the potential for leading to an interesting debate. Our speaker was Cliff Sondock, President of the Land Use Institute. The premise advocated by Sondock is that the market should dictate the use of land, and not restrictive zoning. That theory is antithetical to what we have espoused…

  Each week people at LIMBA learn surprising facts. This morning was as good an example as any. Our guest was Joe Gergela, Executive Director of the Long Island Farm…

Bob McMillan came to LIMBA this morning and soke about the state of health care. He pointed out that medical technology is the best in the world. He also pointed…

This morning we started a little early to get out a message delivered by our new member Irving Like and his partner Vincent Tenety. The issue Irving brought up was the way that…