Cantor: Foley deserves back-bench status
LIBN columnist Martin Cantor said there is at least one good thing about the Democrats losing control of the state Senate: “Brian Foley can’t hurt Long Island. He can go to the back bench, where he...
View ArticleLI economy slow to recover
The economy is on a slow path to eventual recovery, and, for now, Long Islanders must get used to disappointing job growth and sales tax revenues. That’s the message Long Island Association chief...
View ArticleCantor: Coliseum net positive for taxpayers
If Nassau County residents hope to be fully apprised of all of the details of the Nassau Coliseum redevelopment project prior to the Aug. 1 referendum, they have plenty of reading to do. Another report...
View ArticleHow Suffolk snagged CA
As Marty Cantor remembers it, the biggest deal in Suffolk County history started at an April 1988 networker at a Holiday Inn. Cantor, commissioner of economic development in the doe-eyed administration...
View ArticleQ&A: Bruce Ferguson, Suffolk IDA
After 27 years as executive director of the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency, Bruce Ferguson will step down in August. The rumored reason: The new administration wants its own man at the...
View ArticleMartin Cantor among 5 to apply for Suffolk IDA job
Anthony Manetta has some competition in taking over for Bruce Ferguson as executive director of the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency. After the IDA’s board of trustees failed to confirm...
View ArticleStudy reports on LI economy ‘from the trenches’
Business leaders on Long Island discussed “From the Trenches: A Declassified Report On Current Long Island Small Business Economic Trends.”
View ArticleMcAteer: Challenging LIPA board inaccuracies
LIPA Vice Chairman Thomas McAteer refutes statements made in a previous op-ed.
View ArticleCantor: Cost savings from shared services proposals would be insignificant
Long Island’s beleaguered property taxpayers deserve a lot more from their county governments
View ArticleCantor: It’s time for a Suffolk County financial control board
It just may be time for Suffolk County to have imposed a SIFA, a Suffolk Interim Finance Authority to control its finances.
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