Tag Archives: Long Island economy

Ebola and a headline this New Yorker didn’t want to see…

A CDC report titled ‘Surveillance and Preparedness for Ebola Virus Disease — New York City, 2014’! Missing word? Prevention! While it’s true that there has been an extremely limited number of confirmed cases of Ebola that actually were caught in the United States (2), it is also true that we have discovered that our nations […]

Two very different faces of a Long Island Rail Road strike!

The impact of a Long Island Rail Road strike will be far reaching and cause great economic pain for New York City and Long Island residents and businesses alike! For the two individuals highlighted in this article, however, the economic impact of a LIRR strike would apparently fall on opposite sides of the pain spectrum. A LIRR strike inflicting […]

Potential LIRR strike and its economic impact on Long Island!

Update July 14 at 2:10 PM: From Newsday, Negotiations between the LIRR unions and the MTA “have collapsed,” according to the unions, which are “now proceeding with strike plans.” The MTA on Monday rejected a counteroffer from the unions and “presented no counter proposal,” lead union negotiator Anthony Simon said in a statement. “MTA has clearly […]