ShopRite Plainview Long Island Saturday 7am: Aren’t we having fun?

Forecasters on Saturday afternoon upped Long Island snowfall predictions to between 14 and 20 inches in an oncoming blizzard that a National Weather Service meteorologist called “a very significant event.”
“We’re seeing strong bands of snow in New Jersey right now,” meteorologist Matt Scalora of the National Weather Service said at about 2 p.m. The [...]

Looking for the best deals on Black Friday?

My daughter Sarah once told me her favorite day of the whole year is Black Friday. For the past 10 or so years (she turned 18 in October) I have braved the traffic and either accompanied her or dropped her and her friends to the Black Friday mecca, The Roosevelt Field Mall on Long Island. [...]

Congressman Steve Israel: The Health Care Reform Act

Even before Obama was elected I was confused about the health care reform act…what it means to the country and most importantly what it means to me and my family. I have been searching for answers for month and came up with all sorts of campaign rhetoric, partisan opinion and pages and pages of documents [...]

Maureen Isern: Moped Productions Taking Off…

One of the pleasures of being “the master connector” as I have said many times is meeting new people. I had the pleasure of meeting Maureen Isern at a recent LIEG event I produced featuring Fred Seibert. Maureen is the principal of Moped Productions. an award-winning, full-service media consulting and video production company who, among [...]

Woodstock 1969 Tribute

As I mentioned last week, I am planning on posting something new and interesting from now thru the middle of August about the Woodstock Festival in 1969.
Here is the first article I found from Squidoo
The 60’s were a turbulent decade. The assassination of JFK kept us fixated on the TV for days and gave us [...]

Ellis Henican: Coming Out Party on Long Island?

What would Sunday be without my weekly fix of my buddy Ellis Henican’s column in Sunday Newsday?
‘Coming out’ and into their own
Ellis Henican
11:23 PM EDT, April 17, 2009
If I were gay, I might come out today. There is now no shortage of encouragement.
Gov. David A. Paterson is calling on the legislature to legalize gay marriage, [...]

Looking for a deal on software: OpenOffice 3.0 is excellent and FREE!

Being a Long Islander I have been reading Newsday for a long time…and over the past few years Newsday, along with other newspapers, have been writing alot about the internet and related technologies. Lou Doliner of Newsday is one of the pioneers and in my estimation one of the best. His knowledge of the subject [...]

The Long Island Debate

I just think it so cool that the debate took here on Long Island. I reminds me of the day back in 1987 when former CIA Director William Casey passed away. He had lived for many years down the street from my parents and the funeral took place at nearby St. Marys Church.
Not only were [...]