LIRR FIRST COMMAND: DON’T CATCH FIRE

“LIRR’s command upgrade will make ‘rail’ difference” , Newsday, August 29, 2010 
How ’bout this for Command No. 1 at the LIRR’s new state-of-the-art Command and Control Center?
Don’t. Catch. Fire.
Unplanned conflagrations like the one that knocked out a 1913 switching room at Jamaica station can be truly catastrophic. Nearly a week after Monday’s cable fire, train service [...]

DON’T REVEAL! CONCEAL, YOUR HONOR!

“Let’s Reinvent the Process,” Ellis Henican Sunday Column, Newsday, July 19, 2009
She spoke in tones as flat as a law book. She was as difficult to ruffle as the court’s wooden bench. In day after day of direct interrogation, the nation learned barely anything.
So Sonya Sotomayor had a very successful week.
Try as they might, the [...]