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Now is not the time for policy talk

November 8, 2012 7:19 PM By JOYE BROWN joye.brown@newsday.com

LIPA crews work to restore power in St.

Photo credit: Heather Walsh | LIPA crews work to restore power in St. James. (Nov. 7, 2012)

Joye Brown

Newsday columnist Joye Brown

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Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006.

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo spent much of his news conference yesterday morning talking about the need to address the region's nagging infrastructure issues.

He's right, of course. Superstorm Sandy and Wednesday's snow-blasting nor'easter exposed long-acknowledged vulnerabilities in Long Island's electricity, gasoline supply, transportation, sewers and just about everything else.

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