Joye Brown
Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006. She joined the newspaper in 1983 and has worked as a reporter, an editor, newsroom administrator and editorial writer.
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For the first time in decades in New York, there could be greater public scrutiny on how police discipline is handled.
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A course for contract tracers emphasizes it takes just two days for someone who's had contact with an infected person to be able to transmit the coronavirus to others.
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Like Mary Mallon, we're all caught up in an iteration of the conflict between public health and individual rights that played out in her case.
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In a ruling, Justice David T. Reilly managed to resolve the long-running discussion about whether red-light cameras were created for safety, or to raise revenues.
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Zeldin (R-Shirley) helped make a call happen last week between Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
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Suffolk town supervisors want residents to get an extension on property tax payments. But could a freeze in payments cripple the county budget?
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They've closed playgrounds, beach parking lots and tennis courts — and residents still find ways to gather.
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After the virus crisis passes, the county will have to address concerns about construction contracts raised by Nassau's inspector general, Jodi Franzese.
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Bellone went into voluntary quarantine after Deputy Suffolk County Executive Peter Scully tested positive for coronavirus.
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The Suffolk DA and the county legislature plan to dig deeper into the system that failed 8-year-old Thomas Valva.