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HIA-LI 23rd Annual Long Island Business Trade Show & Conference Connect, Collaborate, Inform Get Business featuring Ellis Henican The Hauppauge Industrial Association will hold the 23rd annual Long Island Business Trade Show and Conference this Thursday (May 26) at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will feature [...]
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“Learning lessons (hopefully) in Libya”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday,April 2, 2011 Two weeks in, here are three lessons we’ve already learned in Libya: The ragtag rebels do very well with NATO air support — and very poorly without it. Gadhafi may be crazy, but crazy people can fight. And it’s a whole lot easier getting [...]
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What a spring it’s been for Long Island county execs. Now Nassau and Suffolk both have executives without the power or the moral authority to lead. Any other year, Ed Mangano would definitely be the weakest county chief within miles. He doesn’t even run his own budget any more. The poor can’t buy a paperclip [...]
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“Intervention in Libya: Done right – so far”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, March 20, 2011 Can we please do it right this time? We all feel sympathy for the people of Libya, who have been through more than any people should. Decades of brutality in the grip of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, followed by the slaughter of [...]
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“There’s time yet to give thanks for Black Friday eve” , Newsday, November 28, 2010 Was it already Black Friday at 10 o’clock Thursday night? At Toys R Us it was this year – and at a growing number of other definition-stretching, holiday-encroaching major retail chains. In the get-a-jump-on-it spirit of save-the-date cards and Catholic Vigil [...]
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“In guv race, dumber, uglier talk “, Newsday, September 26, 2010 It happened at week’s end. Andrew Cuomo and Carl Paladino actually agreed on something. The two main candidates for governor cut through their mutual animosity long enough to back Gov. David Paterson’s state-worker layoff plan. Please, don’t get used to all this comity. The two [...]
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“Henican:Trees weapons of mass destruction?” , Newsday, September 19, 2010 The thunder and the lightning deliver all the drama. But it’s the trees that change peoples’ lives. We learned that again on Thursday as a freak storm blew across Queens and Long Island, leaving fallen trees everywhere. No, we’re never more than a downed tree away [...]
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“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. [...]
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“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 [...]
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”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 [...]
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