“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 [...]
“Steve Levy gives up the ghost” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 1, 2010
Steve Levy is lucky he has such high self-esteem.
Otherwise, he’d be feeling pretty bummed this weekend. Nothing is turning out like the Suffolk County executive planned.
State Republican leaders were certain to pick him as their inside candidate for governor. Only they didn’t.
Then, he was [...]
”Arizona’s immigration fight seems far away from LI”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 4, 2010
Ready for another hot-blooded round of immigration debate? Ready or not, here it comes.
Barack Obama’s big speech was Thursday. And any moment now, the Justice Department will be filing suit against the state of Arizona, contending that the toughest-in-America immigration law is [...]
”LI’s Bright Spots Shine Despite Bleak Times,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 30, 2010
The jobs are slow in returning. The Long Island economy’s still bleak. The weather people are predicting a treacherous riptide season off the beaches here.
Is there anything to be cheery about as summer unofficially begins?
I mean besides the fact that “Long Island [...]
“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 [...]
