Rick Brand, a Newsday reporter for nearly three decades, writes about politics and government on Long Island.
The veteran reporter has covered a variety of assignments for Newsday in Washington, Albany and around the country and was part of the Long Island staff that won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800.
During his career, Brand has been the paper’s lead reporter covering Suffolk county government, and spent three years as the paper’s beat reporter covering LILCO during the height of the controversy over the Shoreham nuclear power plant. He has also headed the paper’s East End bureau and even spent a summer doing a gossip column on the Hampton’s social whirl.
Brand had also worked several stints in Newsday’s Albany Bureau during the Carey and Cuomo administrations. He covered the upset victory of Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, Long Island’s first woman congresswoman, and the 1997 U.S. Senate battle between Alfonse D'Amato and Chuck Schumer and part of the marathon Senate campaign that led to the election of Hillary Clinton.
Before joining Newsday, Brand, a graduate of St. Bonaventure University, worked as news editor of Suffolk Life Newspapers and as a reporter for the Long Island News and the Buffalo Courier Express.
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Dear Mr Brand,
I met you at the Democratic celebration party by the screen area and I argued you to write about the cross endorsement between parties.You have the power to write about this issue .I think every party should have their own candidates and give people the power to choose.Small parties should stand on their own and run their own candidates and stop sleeping with the highest bidder.Democracy is about giving the people the right to choose.
Mohsen Elsayed
Vice President of Brentwood Chamber of Commerce.
Vice chairman of the Muslim Advisory Board to Suffolk County Executive.
Member of Downtown Revitalization Advisory Board for Suffolk County.
Cooper is correct in that it's time to debate the real issues. So, what are the real issues?? Well, Obama and Clinton both want more taxes, redistribution of wealth, larger government, socialized medicine and more government regulation of our lives. Pro-growth Republicans want to let people keep more of their hard earned money, continue to press for tax cuts to stimulate growth and investment in America, peace through strength, secured boarders and affordable health care for all. The Republicans have it Right. Perhaps we need more pro-growth Republicans in Huntington.
Rick, Sorrry I have never forgiven you for not covering my removal by the Halpin Administration. I later found out that your wife was up for a job with them the same time they got ride of me. I knew you a long time and was one of your trusted sources and after 15 years with the government was abandoned by you. You didn't have to do much just tell the story the way it was. I have an MPA was also teaching graduate school school at LIU and most of all started with a 200,000 dollar budget and when I left it was 12 million. I wrote the legislation creating the new department of Drug and alchol services which cost me my job. I started the race against drug abuse a non for profit corporation and raised more than my sallary every year so I could be free to the tax payers while I was Director of Drug abuse services. All this to have John Cavalaro right after he is swan in as the new commissioner tell me pack my things and have someone drive me home and report to the bay shore methadone clinic for two weeks. That is what I got for working so hard for so many years. None of which you bothered to report. Not a good thing.
Hello there;
Greetings from New York!
What is on mind now is if this is not true democracy, nothing is! I believe true democracy is, she is a senator from the Democratic Party; and she can run for president as an independent candidate! I believe she can win that way because, voters who don’t like the democratic party can vote for her as an independent candidate; and voters who likes the democratic party can vote for her because she is a democratic senator > she is in > Clinton!
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Stephen Szeles
Rick: Stumbled across the NewsDay web page (via Drudge) and couldn't believe my eyes!
36 years since we last turned on the transmitters at WOFM at St. Bona's.
Glad to see you are doing well.
Take Care!
Ted Paul
Bona's 72