“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 [...]
“Jobs are coming back ” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 23, 2010
It’s the perfect good-news/bad-news story for today’s recessionary times.
The jobs are coming back to Long Island – just not the paychecks.
For the fourth straight month, private-sector employment is up on Long Island from twelve months earlier – 8,600 new jobs this time. But nice as [...]
“Are we still the ‘burbs if our lawns are brown?” – Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 18, 2010
Will the suburbs still be the suburbs if the people can’t water their lawns?
That question is suddenly impossible to ignore as Suffolk County officials announced that water consumption surged to an all-time record on Friday. Robo-calls are urging conservation. A [...]
“Cultural disparity or diversity? It’s up to new, old LIers,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, June 13, 2010
When he drew up the legal documents for America’s first modern suburban community, Levittown, homeowners were prohibited from reselling to anyone who wasn’t white. And even in later years, as more and more Americans abandoned urban neighborhoods, their journey to the [...]
”After Domestic Violence Death, Needed Changes,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 1, 2010
Evil is a word to use sparingly.
But the crimes that Leonardo Valdez-Cruz has now been convicted of — torturing and murdering 24-year-old Jo’Anna Bird after her repeated pleas to police were poorly answered—is as evil as anything our justice system is ever forced to contend [...]
Suozzi’s Farewell,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, December 30, 2009
He was “completely shocked” he lost.
He’s unlikely to run for local or county office again, though maybe for something on the state or federal level.
He’s proud to have turned “the worst-run county in America” into a government that is “much more professional and better run and [...]
