Items from week on the blog

-- There's a new hotel in Riverhead (the lobby, above) and there are job openings.

-- The state launched a job-search site to help you find work.

-- ... and here is how not to hurt your chances for a job by texting funny.

-- Two Long Island companies are embarking on a weather balloon project.

-- A Plainview company gets a big contract with China for LED tools.

-- And DNA technology from an LI company helps break a robbery case.