Letter: Nassau-Suffolk merger a bad idea
Long Island Association president Kevin Law speaks during a LI Economic Development Council meeting at Hofstra University. (Aug. 23, 2011) Credit: Chris Ware
Those who do not know their history are bound to repeat it ["Study one county -- and other options," Editorial, Sept. 23]. I may be the only one who remembers that a Nassau-Suffolk merger was considered as a strategy decades ago.
What was actually accomplished and put into place legally was the Long Island Consolidated Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area composed of both counties. This stayed in place for a very short time, as it was not possible to set federal goals for the composite area that made sense.
If it failed in the past, why are we, first, treating it as if it is a brilliant new concept thought up by Long Island Association president Kevin Law; and second, considering a failed idea for a second go-round?
Leone Baum, Hempstead
Editor's note: The writer is president of the Hempstead Chamber of Commerce.
