Events

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 Bureau. Agriculture in Suffolk County is the largest revenue producer of all of the counties in New York State. I knew that was true in 1988,…

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 out that universal availability continues to elude us. These fact are becoming a familiar theme now. A few months ago Michael Dowling, President of North Shore…

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 commercial property is being exposed to a quickly escalating tax based on a new formula. There is a small window to establish your challenge that…

This morning, Bruce Lambert, lately of the New York Times, came to talk about some of the different ways that peoples’ stories wind up as newspaper stories. It turns out that Bruce is an old-time veteran reporter on the island, having worked for many of the local papers from time to time. He was also…