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CONTENTS
Volume 199, No. 6 June 2019
Sincerely,
Joanna Austin
Publisher, Long Island Press
9 THIS MONTH
How the new minimum wage hike
is making it harder for Long Island
nonprofits to provide services.
12 COVER
Chuck Scarborough, the most-tenured
TV news anchor in New York
history, opens up about life outside
the newsroom and his LI ties.
16 GUEST COLUMNISTS
Nassau County Executive Laura
Curran touts her efforts to reform
the broken property tax assessment
system. And behavior analysts urge
New York State lawmakers to correct
a legal error restricting their scope
of practice.
19 BUSINESS
Forecasting the summer tourism
season, meet LI Builder’s Institute
CEO Mitch Pally, the Great Neck man
who invented action figures, and Man
Cave Health makes doctors offices
manly.
33 PRESS HEALTH
An LI native advocates for gun safety
after his daughter was slain in Parkland,
experts weigh in on the benefits
of youth sports, coaches are being
trained to spot addition, and LI’s top
sports pros.
45 FAMILY & EDUCATION
A local high school basketball coach
pens a motivational memoir, how fathers
play a role in their kids language
development, honoring upstanding
students, and how photographers
make shelter pets adoptable.
62 PRESS HOME
Adding value to homes in unexpected
places, bold backsplash redesigns,
and a Centre Island home on the
market with wow factor.
65 BUZZ
A comprehensive guide to Jones
Beach Island, Main Dish restaurant
profiles, Do This! listings, Pride
Month preview, a special Celebrations
section, and Rear View recalls
Groucho Marx of Great Neck.
and considerate men.
Adorning the cover of our June edition, The Men’s Issue, is a fitting role model:
NBC News’ Chuck Scarborough, the New York Metro area’s most-tenured TV
news anchor, who pulls back the curtain on his LI ties and family life just in
time for Father’s Day.
Also in this issue you’ll find a special men’s health section featuring stories
about how youth sports for more versatile athletes with more opportunities
later in life, and how sports injuries can lead down a deadly road amid the
opioid crisis. Offering fatherly wisdom in the family and education section is
former Half Hollow Hills High School West Coach Billy Mitaritonna.
In our business section, find stories on the summer tourism season forecast, a
Q&A With Long Island Builders’ Institute CEO Mitch Pally, and meet the Great
Neck man who is the father of the modern superhero action figure.
In the Buzz section, our reporters round up all their is to see, do, eat, and drink on Jones Beach Island
from one end of the barrier island to the other. In Rear View, learn about the LI roots of comedy forefather
Groucho Marx.
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