Brown: Bellone rightfully takes LIPA to task
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said Saturday he is bypassing LIPA's top managers and working directly with local substation coordinators to restore power to Suffolk County residents by Sunday night.
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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, despite early reports Saturday, did not stage a palace coup on Long Island Power Authority management.
That would have been impossible because a county can't trump a state authority; that would have been impractical because county government knows nothing about how to deploy crews, provide them a steady stream of materials or monitor the quality of their...
