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A new Internal Revenue Service group is targeting the extra rich, including some Long Islanders, making sure their tax returns are in line with regulations and that all of their income and assets are being reported to the government.

Housing on Long Island represents a microcosm of all the problems Long Island needs to address a ' from economic and social equity, smart growth, zoning challenges, and how to make fragmented government work better, inspire community action, and ensure that opportunity is more fairly distributed and readily accessible.

Long Islanders accustomed to hearing Richard Kessel talk about electricity heard something different Wednesday as the former Long Island Power Authority chairman urged residents to support a plan to improve power upstate.

Long Islanders, your Restaurant Week has come. On Sunday, November 1, the week-long fourth annual Long Island Restaurant Week kicks off, bringing three-course $24.95 prix fixe dinners right to your driveway.

A wall Newsday will join the slowly growing ranks of newspaper publishers that charge for access .

Sure the Mona Lisa is impressive, but try creating a masterpiece with cans. Can-struction, a charity committed to ending hunger, is using - one can' as a catalyst for change.

Long Islanders were the first in the nation to receive a new report today from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America on a record 969 medicines in the research pipeline for disease that disproportionately affected women.

The news, opinion pages and blogs of LIBN have been filled with the challenges Long Island is facing, and it seems that the very best of what a oeOur Islanda has to offer is at risk.

Even if your salary doesna t get bigger over the next few weeks, you may be surprised to learn it just got more expensive to employ you and every other worker on Long Island.

Property taxes are the single most important issue facing Long Island ers, according to a Newsday / News 12 Long Island / Siena Research Institute Poll.

For most Long Islanders, the idea of saddling up in wooden booths and listening to country music while chowing down on some of the south's finest fried cuisine isn't exactly part of the plan for any day of the week.

Long Island's amorphous rockers, Brand New , have gained an enormous following over the years, escaping from claims of interchangeability with bands like Taking Back Sunday and Straylight Run and selling out shows throughout the tri-state area's most popular venues.

Those three officers, Robert B. Helmke of Hauppauge , Det. William J. Holfester of Mastic Beach , and Sgt.

There is no doubt that Long Islanders have a keen sense of pride in their communities.

Among those questions that will always haunt New Yorkers - When will the Knicks win? Why is Page Six actually on Page 8? Where does Donald Trump get his hair done? - one of the most persistent is: What, in point of fact, do the thousands of commuters who arrive each day for work or recreation truly contribute to the city? Economists will most ...

Nearly 45,000 Long Island jobs depend on electricity from the New York Power Authority's low cost power economic development programs.

Long Islanders are feeling a bit more optimistic about the local economy. They may even be ready to start shopping.

Written by Ron Beigel on Oct 2nd, 2009 and filed under Columns , Eater's Digest .

A lot of Long Islanders love the theater and now is the chance to experience the official Free Night of Theater in Union Square on October 15, 2009 from noon to 6pm.

Mammoth waves engulf entire neighborhoods, washing away roads and homes. Devastating winds and pounding rain wreak havoc, maximizing the destruction.

They all line up, pretty houses in a row. Trimmed lawns, decorative statues and pretty flower beds.