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.

Brown: Stop & Shop's robot and me

Encounters of a mechanical kind with Marty, Stop & Shop's spill-detecting robot.

Brown: Expand public access to disclosure forms
Easy public access to disclosure forms remains an issue in both Nassau and Suffolk.
Brown: The fall of John Venditto
In a Mineola courtroom, Venditto, 70, accepted his penalty: $625 for court costs, but no jail time.
Brown: Legislator runs afoul of the ethics law
In 2017, an entomologist who wanted to open his own business sought an opinion from the ethics board on if that would be OK.
SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE Will the work be remembered? One Lunar Module team member reflects
One ex-Grumman worker worries his grandchildren "would be more excited if I had worked on 'Star Wars' ... than what we actually did."
Brown: You haven't heard the last of the marijuana debate
Will reductions to violations for possessing small amounts encourage more Long Islanders to use marijuana?
Brown: The gang next door
During the trial of an MS-13 associate, prosecutors projected a map showing nine addresses. Six were homes occupied by MS-13 members.
Brown: He helped Apollo stay the course
Arnold Fishler helped build an updated version of an ancient mariners' tool, the sextant, for Apollo missions.
Brown: Rob Walker's fall from power
Walker was the key deal maker in the administration of former County Executive Edward Mangano. Everything changed with a guilty plea in federal court last week.
Brown: For parties, it's appoint now, elect later
Republicans do it. Democrats do it.
Brown: Bush can't forgive those who put him in jail
He does not forgive Suffolk prosecutors, who ignored those leads -- and withheld them, along with other information, from Bush's defense lawyer -- during trial.