This Week's Long Island News

Newsday's Scott Eidler talks about how an upstate judge put an end to the effort by the current school board in Massapequa to abandon the plan by its predecessor to relocate district sixth-graders to Berner Middle School.

Newsday Reporter Yancey Roy talks about how State Senate Republicans signed off on public funding for a third track for the Long Island Rail Road, removing the last hurdle for the long-touted project.

Mark Harrington from Newsday discusses how a labor shortage, rising property taxes and costs that keep the price of a bottle of local wine relatively high have made running a Long Island vineyard a challenging passion.

Bill McIntyre talks with Newsday’s Jim Baumbach about how The New York Islanders won't play four regular season games at the renovated Nassau Coliseum next season, despite an agreement to do so.

Newsday reporter Paul LaRocco talks about Nassau Republicans nominating former state Sen. Jack Martins as their county executive candidate.

Newsday reporter Alfonso A. Castillo discusses the recent troubles with the Long Island Rail Road, Amtrak, and Penn Station – and what's being planned to fix it.

Newsday reporter Maura McDermott discusses her recent article that discusses how Nassau County is one of nine large counties across the United States where homeowners pay more than $10,000 a year in property taxes according to a new report.

Newsday reporter Robert Brodsky discusses how the operators of Brooklyn’s Barclays Center are preparing a pitch to bring the Islanders back to the recently renovated Nassau Coliseum.

Newsday writer Joie Tyrrell speaks with us about how Long Island maintained its position as a stronghold of Common Core test boycotts this week, as more than half of public school students in grades three through eight eligible to take the exams refused to do so, according to a Newsday survey to which 113 districts responded.

Newsday reporter Stefanie Dazio talks about her recent article, Hempstead village installs 12 license plate-reader cameras.

Long Island's Rabbi Perl responds to the recent arrest and the bomb threats that have been affecting JCC's all over the country, including here on the island.

Newsday reporter David Reich-Hale talks about Long Island’s independent pharmacies shrinking in number as chain drugstores, and mail-order and online prescription services, cut into their business.