It would be nice to have another on-ramp. This area needs something to relieve the congestion.

Usually, the whole family's way of thinking needs to change. Kids are overweight for reasons. It's very seldom just one cause.

Some people think that if they change the names of things, the things themselves will have changed, too

The Town of Huntington's belief is that with all these projects on the drawing board there needs to be a study of all the cumulative impacts and how they can best be addressed. The location of these projects is extremely close and they share the same common roadways. There has to be a cumulative impact. We are not trying to hold up the project. We are trying to foster good planning. Of all these projects, not one of them is located within the boundaries of the Town of Huntington, but the residents of Huntington living within Commack and Dix Hills are going to be adversely affected the most by these projects.

The board of trustees needs to be thinking about where Northeastern needs to go, ... The question is: What do we need now? I don't know what the answer is going to be.

Change always ruffles feathers. But to us, nothing is sacred. This is going to be good for us, good for the island.