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• Look for us at the LIA

  Published: September 27, 2007, 3:03 pm

  Tags: Long Island Association

  powerful Long Islanders will litter Crest Hollow Country Club tomorrow for the Long Island Association’s Fall Luncheon. So, of course, Henry and I will be there blogging the entire event, from the rubber chicken lunch to the planned speeches by George Stephanopoulos, Jim Lehrer and Bob Schieffer. Come and say hello - we will be

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• A quick note about my table

  Published: September 28, 2007, 12:53 pm

  Tags: Lipa, Long Island Association

  I’m sitting with LIPA … so where’s James Larocca? Where’s Kevin Law, oh he’s on sitting with Suffolk. Richie Kessel, he’s sitting up front with the LIA board. And why is this chicken cold? (I wonder what Richie thinks about this chicken.) Also, George Stephanopoulos is late.

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• Schieffer is ill, so here’s Tucker Carlson

  Published: September 28, 2007, 12:44 pm

  Tags: Charles Schumer, Long Island Association

  in Washington concerning Long Island. They’ve secured heavy funding for Brookhaven National Lab. The Feds supplied money to build the new Lightsource and the relativistic heavy ion collider. (Does he know it has already been built?) He says it will bring thousand of jobs here, perhaps spin off lots of high-tech industries and become a

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• Live at the LIA luncheon

  Published: September 28, 2007, 11:57 am

  Tags: Long Island Association

  Club in Woodbury for the Long Island Association’s Fall Luncheon. It took longer to park than it did to drive here from our Ronkonkoma offices. It’s packed, which usually is the case for major LIA events. So here’s what is going to happen: Veteran news personalities Bob Scheiffer, George Stephanopoulos and Jim Lehrer are

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• LIA event: Big talk with big personalities

  Published: September 28, 2007, 2:11 pm

  Tags: Long Island Association, Media

  under their breaths, meaning Long Island MidSuffolk Business Action founder Ernie Fazio, who likes to talk about the issues himself.) I’ll try to capture this in Q&A form. Crosson: Jim, you have a special interest in buses. Why? Lehrer: My father worked in the bus business and I went to junior college in Victoria, Texas and was a ticket

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• DiNapoli shares his plan with the LIA

  Published: December 5, 2007, 2:48 pm

  Tags: Long Island Association, Thomas Dinapoli, Economy

  for housing in both of Long Island's counties, many borrowers increased their reliance on subprime mortgages. Subprime mortgages increased from 14.5 percent of all mortgages originated in 2004 to 30.3 percent in 2006. Other highlights of the 2007 Long Island Economic Trends Report include: According to the Long Island Association, the

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• Hannity and Carville and Russert, oh my

  Published: December 15, 2007, 5:11 pm

  Tags: Long Island Association

  Long Island Association’s annual meeting is all set and Tim Russert of NBC, Sean Hannity of Fox News and political operative James Carville will be on hand for a debate, er, discussion, about where the 2008 presidential election is headed. The 9 a.m. event is scheduled for Feb. 14 at Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. Feb. 14 seems

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• Irv Hansen will be missed

  Published: February 6, 2008, 3:40 pm

  Tags: Limba, Long Island Association, Deaths

  Here ’s the Long Island Association’s tribute to Hansen, complete with funeral arrangements. Yesterday the Long Island Association lost a member of our family, and Long Island lost one of its most faithful advocates. A passionate Long Islander, Irwin Irv Hansen's uncompromising faith in the American Way brought

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• Hannity: The great imitator

  Published: February 14, 2008, 3:57 pm

  Tags: Long Island Association

  what we learned from Long Island Association's roundtable political discussion with Sean Hannity, Tim Russert and James Carville: Hannity can do a great Bill Clinton imitation. Beyond that, the trio spent the better part of two hours debating traditional Democratic and Republican differences and discussing the remaining presidential

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• Back benchers delight

  Published: February 14, 2008, 1:27 pm

  Tags: Long Island Association

  Long Island Association announced today that the former prime minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair, will speak at the organization’s fall luncheon on Sept. 18. Want to go? It’ll cost you - a table for 12 will set you back $4,000. Blair was prime minister from 1997 to 2007. The LIA made the announcement at today’s luncheon

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• The world is back in order

  Published: February 14, 2008, 12:57 pm

  Tags: Long Island Association

  Carville are debating at the Long Island Association’s annual luncheon. Hannity will vote for John McCain if he gets the nomination. He won’t vote for Hillary Clinton. There - rest easy. Carville, who supports Clinton, said he would vote for Obama “yesterday” if he gets the nomination. Obama has moved ahead of Clinton in

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• Wind gusts expected

  Published: February 14, 2008, 9:39 am

  Tags: Long Island Association

  Samuels and I will be at the Long Island Association’s Annual Meeting and Luncheon today at Crest Hollow Country Club, where James Carville and Sean Hannity will blow enough political wind to keep the room warm. Perhaps Hannity could explain to us why he and his right-wing talk show cohorts are in hysterics over John McCain’s

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• A regional problem

  Published: February 16, 2008, 8:18 pm

  Tags: Long Island Association, Long Island Index, Brain Drain

  made of the fact that young Long Islanders are deciding to leave in droves. From 2000 to 2005, the number of Nassau and Suffolk residents ages 25 to 34 fell by more than 30,000. The region also lost 22,000 residents between 35-and-44 years of age. It’s a staggering problem and many experts cite the lack of workforce housing or the high

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• You decide: What is affordable?

  Published: February 22, 2008, 11:01 am

  Tags: Long Island Association, Steve Levy, Affordable Housing

  Island Business News has been following news of two affordable housing bills currently being hashed out in Albany. The first, sponsored by the Long Island Association, mandates any developer that builds five or more units include 10 percent of the project as affordable housing. However, the bill defines affordable as a property a family that

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• The 51st state returns

  Published: June 3, 2008, 2:12 pm

  Tags: Li Biz, Long Island Government, Nassau, Suffolk, Politicians, State Government, 51st State, Howard Weitzman, Joseph Sawicki, Long Island Association

  giving up on the state of Long Island. Talking to the Long Island Association this morning, Sawicki couldn’t help but bring up how much of a better financial situation both Nassau and Suffolk counties would be in if they didn’t send $3 billion to $4 billion to Albany each year, which they never get back. Sawicki first brought up

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