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2 weeks ago | 
newsday.com | Randi F. Marshall
For nearly 20 months, we've heard the slogans — at rallies on our streets, at encampments on our college campuses, and across social media.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsday.com | Randi F. Marshall
When thousands of Long Island Rail Road riders rumble through the East River Tunnel on their way into Penn Station each morning, they can't see the corroding steel, cracking concrete, dripping water, missing sections of bench wall, or exposed wires. If they could, the resulting cries of alarm would force an end to the debate over how to repair the aging tunnel and a quick start to the fixes.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsday.com | Randi F. Marshall
In the neighboring towns of Huntington and Smithtown, political fights are brewing, ready to come to a head during next month's Republican Party primary. On both sides of the towns' line, the arguments and battle cries are nearly identical. And the outcome of these supervisor races will say a lot about what the future holds not only for the leadership of each town but for Long Island in general.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsday.com | Randi F. Marshall
Amtrak took its heated battles with state officials and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to the public late Wednesday night, taking a group of 16 journalists on a tour of one of the East River Tunnel’s century-old deteriorating rail tubes badly damaged by Superstorm Sandy.
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1 month ago | 
newsday.com | Randi F. Marshall
As Albany finalizes new plan for control of NUMC board, an incendiary effort to block it pops upIn a last-minute flurry, supporters of the status quo at Nassau University Medical Center engaged in an incendiary social media blitz Tuesday to stop action in Albany that would change the governing structure of NUMC. But multiple sources told The Point that the proposed changes — which would give Gov.
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1 month ago | 
newsday.com | Randi F. Marshall
When Suffolk County's latest request for ideas for the long-vacant Ronkonkoma property south of the Long Island Rail Road tracks emerged last week, the county gave the land a new moniker. Long Island Hub. But Long Island already has "the Hub" — the vast asphalt parking lots around Nassau Coliseum. Both pieces of prime real estate could indeed be hubs, thanks to their locations and potential for development.
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1 month ago | 
newsday.com | Randi F. Marshall
President Donald Trump has long promised to champion "forgotten" everyday Americans and protect the working class, and to save consumers billions of dollars through deregulation and other measures. Yet, he spent his first two months in office dismantling the one piece of the federal bureaucracy dedicated to those tasks: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB emerged in 2010, a response to the 2007-08 financial crisis and the recession that followed.
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2 months ago | 
newsday.com | Randi F. Marshall
For a year and a half, Mahmoud Khalil led anti-Israel and antisemitic protests, sit-ins, building takeovers and rallies in support of Palestinian causes. As a student activist with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, he’s been a spokesman and lead negotiator for those who’ve espoused hateful views, accused Israel of genocide, called for Israel’s destruction, and screamed “Resistance is Justified,” in defense of the Oct. 7, 2023 atrocities Hamas inflicted on Israel.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
newsday.com | Randi F. Marshall
Reading Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s words during a measles outbreak that in Texas alone has infected nearly 160 people and killed one child might lead you to think the longtime vaccine critic is now a believer. "Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons," the Health and Human Services secretary wrote in a Fox News opinion piece. Well, you say, that sounds about right.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
newsday.com | Randi F. Marshall
When was the last time you read a book — for fun? When was the last time your child or grandchild did? In a world dominated by screens of all sizes, reading for pleasure — particularly a traditional book — is a dying pastime. With everything going on in the world and our own lives, it might seem like there's not much time left to sit in a favorite chair and open a book, whether a new find or an old friend. That's unfortunately true for children, too. And that's more than the loss of a hobby.
