LIA formally opposes Cuomo plan to privatize LIPA
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | LIPA crews work on a pole leaning over the westbound LIRR tracks just west of the Hickville station in Hicksville. (Jan. 31, 2013)
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The Long Island Association, the region's largest business group, has formally recommended against a plan by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to sell the Long Island Power Authority's assets to a private company.
In a carefully worded resolution Wednesday, the LIA's 60-member board unanimously said it could not recommend Cuomo's plan, though it commended him for considering it. Instead, the LIA advised...
