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In a devastating piece of investigative reporting in May, the Chicago Tribune laid out the whole sordid tale of how industry conspired to kill legislation a designed to protect children from harmful chemicals. It also told the equally unseemly story of how those chemicals got into furniture in the first place.

There’s a version of that nasty little play going on right now, in Albany. More...

It would be a shame if an important technological advance for air travel were to become a job-loser for Long Island. But it could happen.

Part of the plan for launching the long-awaited, satellite-based NextGen air-traffic control system is merging two control centers now in Ronkonkoma and Westbury. Federal Aviation Administration officials haven’t decided where the new Integrated Control...

Ray Bradbury, the lyrical and evocative author who died Tuesday at age 91, was misunderstood both in his life and his work. But it never seemed to stop him from having fun.

Known as the science fiction writer who brought the geeky genre into the mainstream in publications like The Saturday Evening Post, he would proclaim (and rightly so) that he was, in fact, a fantasy writer. He said only...

Score one for old-fashioned books, perused by human editors and printed by traditional publishers. Unless, that is, readers like having their passion for great literature Nookd, rather than kindled, by a good book

A version of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” went on sale recently for the Nook, the e-reader supported by Barnes & Noble. The version was formatted from a copy of the work from the...

Rep. Nan Hayworth’s campaign adviser was right to step down after he wrote that people should “hurl some acid” at Democrats. The aide, Jay Townsend, was also right in saying he posted “stupid, thoughtless and insensitive” comments on his Facebook page as part of his mea culpa.

While you can easily suspect that he didn’t literally mean what he wrote, there’s no getting around the...

Now that ceremonies marking Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee have drawn to a close, it's hard to resist asking, from this side of the pond, what on Earth that was all about.

In this relatively egalitarian day and age, why would people get so excited about royalty? Britain's ancient system of hereditary wealth and privilege, familiar to us lately in "Downton Abbey," was appalling,...

One month into Veolia Transportation’s attempt to save money on Able-Ride bus service for disabled riders by having people share trips whenever possible, it's not shocking that there have been bumps in the road.

For decades, while the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ran Nassau's buses, every Able-Ride user -- 1,130 per day -- was carried individually for each leg of his or her trip....

An expert on tax law says he’ll tell a State Senate committee in Albany on Monday that  some restaurants cheat the state out of about $1.7 billion a year by using computer devices called “tax zappers.”

At least four states have outlawed the devices and several more are considering doing so, says Richard Ainsworth, a key witness scheduled to speak at the hearing by the Standing Committee...

For half a century, I've been waiting for a New York Mets no-hitter, sighing deeply every time a former Mets pitcher threw one for some other team (Nolan Ryan, seven times!), and dreading the great day. Why would I dread it? Because I KNEW I'd miss it. I'd be in Rome, out of reach. I'd be in the hospital, recovering from some terrifying surgery. I'd be covering some boring late-night meeting about...

It looks like any important social engagements you may be planning 4 billion years hence may not have to be canceled, but you might well consider a new theme: Galaxy Collision Fiesta, perhaps.

According to recent images picked up by the Hubble space telescope, the quite large Andromeda galaxy is likely going to collide with our Milky Way in 4 billion years. Scientists say the Milky Way has...