Joye Brown
Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006. She joined the newspaper in 1983 and has worked as a reporter, an editor, newsroom administrator and editorial writer.
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Joye Brown 7/13/13 Brown: Culture of cover up, how deep is it?
Jaws must be dropping at the increasing number of ongoing investigations across Long Island. ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 7/10/13 Brown: Mangano needs to move quickly on Coliseum
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano has named the two logical finalists to overhaul the Coliseum, ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 7/8/13 Brown: Safe boating requires education
The drowning deaths of three children in Oyster Bay last year rightfully put a spotlight ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 7/1/13 Brown: Friedman victims deserve to move on
Jesse Friedman got just what he wanted with a three-year review of his conviction of ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 6/29/13 Brown: Feds should probe alleged police misconduct
The U.S. Justice Department has stepped in to determine whether James Burke, a high-ranking Suffolk ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 6/28/13 Brown: Counties' borrowing plan should be last resort
Surprise! ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 6/24/13 Brown: Tax refund deal good for homeowners
And so the battle ends. ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 6/15/13 Brown: West Shore Road's reopening a good sign
The reopening of West Shore Road in Mill Neck shows that, for all its serious ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 6/10/13 Brown: Nassau finance an easy target
Yesterday, a federal appeals court panel heard arguments on whether Nassau's fiscal control board had ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 6/5/13 Brown: Nassau's absurd tax debate
The debate over borrowing nearly $200 million to pay tax settlements in Nassau has become ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 6/3/13 Brown: Suffolk right on anti-gang task force
Suffolk County did the right thing by saying it will rejoin a federal anti-gang task ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 6/1/13 Brown: Nassau ethics board needs ethics
Nassau County's politically stacked ethics board missed an opportunity to draw a big, bold dividing ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 5/25/13 Long Island's vets are our living history
William Nedwick sat in his wheelchair, blue eyes as clear as they were serious, as ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 5/23/13 Brown: Lopez resigned -- should Silver follow?
One down. ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 5/20/13 Brown: Mangano orders probe into killing
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano has ordered an investigation into last week's police killing of ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 5/18/13 Brown: Cuomo's latest LIPA plan a step forward
What's the difference between Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's latest proposal on the Long Island Power ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 5/13/13 Brown: Cuomo should fill NCC positions
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo should move quickly to fill two vacancies on Nassau Community College's ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 5/11/13 Brown: Suffolk budget needs long-term deficit solution
Suffolk's back-to-back budget deficits -- the first in two decades -- ought to be a ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 5/8/13 Brown: SUNY intervenes in NCC president search
Hours before the public portion of the Nassau Community College trustees meeting Tuesday night, SUNY ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 5/6/13 Brown: Sampson arrest shows corruption's reach
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, predictably, said all the right things Monday after yet another state ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 5/4/13 Brown: Nassau Coliseum proposals hold great promise
For all the openness of last week's presentations on ideas for remaking the Nassau Coliseum, ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 5/1/13 Brown: Silence as former police official pleads guilty
John Hunter, Nassau's retired deputy chief of patrol, became the second former high-ranking member of ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 4/29/13 Brown: Nassau moves toward tax refund deal
Should Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Democratic Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams meet as scheduled ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 4/27/13 Brown: Public works chief should have recused herself
There should have been no debate about whether Shila Shah-Gavnoudias, Nassau's public works commissioner, should ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 4/25/13 Brown: Time to resolve the fight over Foley
It's time to resolve the bitter fight over the Foley nursing home in Suffolk, and ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 4/23/13 Brown: Marathon bombings' effects will linger
The city of Boston will live with the reverberations of the marathon bombing for years ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 4/20/13 Brown: Nassau exec hopefuls on county's top issues
Former Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, who wants the county's top job again, was the ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 4/15/13 Boston Marathon bombing an act of terror? Absolutely
The Boston Marathon lost its innocence Monday to a coward who appeared to aim not ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 4/13/13 Brown: Major fail for Glen Cove school district
It should not have taken almost five months, inquiries from news reporters and pressure from ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 4/10/13 Brown: Suing NIFA is no solution for Nassau
Nassau's new lawsuit against its financial control board is both ill-advised and dangerous to the ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 4/8/13 Brown: 2 Sandy-related investigations
And now there are two. ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 4/6/13 Brown: It's time to clean up the corruption
It takes teamwork to make the schemes work. ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 4/1/13 Brown: Months later, oversight on Sandy overdue
It took five months for Comptroller George Maragos to begin asking questions about how millions ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 3/25/13 Brown: Albany failed Nassau-Suffolk fix
A failed effort in Albany to tie $70 million in new revenues for Suffolk to ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 3/23/13 Many questions surround Freeport principal
It's almost unbelievable that a Freeport middle school principal could have falsified that most basic ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 3/20/13 Brown: Reasons why Suffolk shouldn't own nursing home
There are plenty of reasons why owning a nursing home no longer makes sense for ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 3/18/13 Brown: Keep tax challenge response transparent
The administration of County Executive Edward Mangano worked last week to minimize a report on ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 3/16/13 Brown: Why not 'right-size' county government?
County Executive Edward Mangano may be on to something with his idea of "right-sizing" the ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 3/13/13 Brown: New pope brings hope to Catholic church
Pope Francis didn't wear the traditional ermine mozzetta -- a red cape -- when he ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 3/11/13 Brown: Recognizing immigrants' strengths
Immigrant-rich Elmont pulled off the almost-impossible two years in a row. ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 3/9/13 Brown: Higher property taxes after Sandy unfair
Some residents in communities significantly damaged by superstorm Sandy likely will get a surprise come ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 3/6/13 Brown: LI's economy needs higher-paying jobs
Sen. Charles Schumer's complaints about the loss of hundreds of Northrop Grumman workers won't stop ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 3/4/13 Brown: County vs. Nassau Coliseum
The squabble over who owes whom millions of dollars in rent, utilities and other Nassau ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 3/2/13 Brown: Exec hopefuls fail to talk fiscal solutions
Three candidates for Nassau County's top elected position had an opportunity last week to tell ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 2/27/13 Brown: Cuomo must detail LIPA privatization plan
Legislative gatherings in Albany and Hauppauge Wednesday sharpened the contrast between how Long Island residents ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 2/26/13 Brown: Ford's vote stymies GOP redistricting plan
Sometimes, all it takes is one. ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 2/23/13 Brown: Stripping NIFA's power would hurt Nassau
A financial control board stripped of its most potent weapon isn't going to have much ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 2/20/13 Brown: Brookhaven voters, make them earn highway job
Pity Brookhaven voters at a forum Monday night who were trying to decide on a ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 2/18/13 Brown: Case raises questions about corruption
The conviction of former Nassau police commander William Flanagan on misdemeanor charges of official misconduct ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 2/16/13 Brown: Suffolk voters sidelined in 3 key races
Choice is good. ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 2/14/13 Brown: Brookhaven storm woes caused by politics
Why were so many roads left unplowed in the Town of Brookhaven days after a ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 2/13/13 Brown: Suozzi's entry creates Dems' free-for-all
Thomas Suozzi's not-so-surprise entry into the Nassau County executive's race makes a field of spirited ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 2/11/13 Brown: LI needs weather emergency plan
Why did officials shut down the Long Island Expressway in the midst of last week's ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 2/9/13 Brown: Nat Grid had handle on storm response plan
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo didn't have much of a choice other than to shift management ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 2/6/13 Brown: Cuomo should think beyond arbitration cap
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's proposal to tinker with the state's binding arbitration process in order ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 2/4/13 Brown: Past flood victim offers hope
Linda Hobson didn't live near the shore. But her house on Horton Avenue was in ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 2/2/13 Brown: Cuomo sends mixed signals on LIPA's future
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has said bluntly that the Long Island Power Authority can't ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 1/30/13 Brown: Mangano Nassau 'surplus' is questionable
Enough with the anticipated surplus in Nassau County already. ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 1/23/13 Brown: Higher profile King says he's staying put
Rep. Peter King seems to be everywhere these days. ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 1/21/13 Brown: Let's take time to devise a LIPA plan
Let's put the brakes on a move to privatize the Long Island Power Authority and ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 1/19/13 Brown: Questionable acts deserve our questioning
What a week it was. ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 1/17/13 Brown: Timing is right for gun control
President Barack Obama has carefully reframed the decades-old, us-versus-them debate over gun control by rebranding ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 1/15/13 Brown: 'Do the right thing,' vote for Sandy aid
"Do the right thing," Tommy Asher of Island Park told Congress before he and a ... Read more »
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Joye Brown 1/14/13 Brown: Judge should OK victim's remarks
Judge George Peck wouldn't permit a victim's advocate to read a statement on Edita Bonilla's ... Read more »
