Colleges buying land at bargain prices
Colleges and universities are buying up chunks of land at bargain prices, sometimes without a clear idea how they’ll be used. Some are taking advantage of good sales during a sluggish economy, while...
View ArticleBetter Burb winners announced
A transit system connecting public schools, backyard apartments, and urban agriculture could be part of Long Island’s future. At least that’s what the seven winners of the Long Island Index’s Build a...
View ArticleHow Suffolk snagged CA
As Marty Cantor remembers it, the biggest deal in Suffolk County history started at an April 1988 networker at a Holiday Inn. Cantor, commissioner of economic development in the doe-eyed administration...
View ArticleColumbia U plans new Institute for Data Sciences
New York City is helping Columbia University to create an Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering. The plans, announced Monday, are part of the Applied Sciences NYC initiative. Columbia will...
View ArticleNY lets big universities insure students
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has signed legislation into law that will allow some of the state’s largest private universities to directly provide health coverage to their students, potentially lowering health...
View ArticleStony Brook leads LI lean startup movement
After Roye and Turchin began a group dedicated to the lean startup concept, Stony Brook University created a course based on the business-development methodology.
View ArticleSandy’s ‘freaky’ path may be less likely in future
Man-made global warming may further lessen the likelihood of the freak atmospheric steering currents that last year shoved Superstorm Sandy into New Jersey.
View ArticleCutting the corporate fat
John Blasig lives by this universal truth: Any company or municipality can tighten its fiscal belt.
View ArticleLaGrange: The fight for $15
When revenue is diverted from working-class spenders, it undermines social cohesion.
View ArticleThe top universities for producing Nobel-winning economists
Since the Nobel economics prize was first awarded in 1969, the University of Chicago has dominated.
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