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Long Island Restaurant Week is coming (Newsday) - It hardly pays to eat at home from Nov. 5 to 12, Long Island Restaurant Week. That's when you can enjoy a three-course meal at a different dining spot every night (okay, maybe every other night) for just $21.95 a person. The deal is available througout every evening but Saturday, when it runs until 7 p.m..

Causeway for Long Island still on table: Hickey (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) - A causeway to connect Long Island with other communities on Newfoundland's northeast coast would cost about $26 million, but may still be feasible, provincial Transportation Minister John Hickey says.

Police Say Long Island Husband Hired Hit Man To Kill Wife (WNBC) - CENTRAL ISLIP, Long Island -- A 51-year-old Long Island man is being accused by police of hiring a hit man to kill his wife. The Suffolk district attorney said Gary Katz will be arraigned Tuesday on charges of conspiracy and criminal solicitation.

Long Island University Supports Critical Applications With Cisco Data Center Solutions (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - SAN JOSE, Calif.----Cisco Systems® today announced that Long Island University , one of the largest and most comprehensive institutions of higher education in the country, has deployed a storage area network based on Cisco MDS 9216i Multilayer Fabric Switches, as well as an end-to-end Cisco data center architecture.

Matt Balitsaris Music Business Seminar at Long Island University's Jazz Clinic Series Tuesday, October 24, 4:00 - 6:00 (All About Jazz) - Record producer and founder of Palmetto Records, Matt Balitsaris will lead a music business seminar as part of Long Island University's Jazz Clinic Series.

New Jersey vs. Long Island: Where's the Better Music? (WNYC New York Public Radio) - Last week, organizers announced a Long Island Music Hall of Fame, whose first inductees include Billy Joel, Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, Vanilla Fudge, Mose Allison, and Harry Chapin. At the same time, there's a music hall of fame in the works for New Jersey as well. Today, the organizers of both halls join us as we ask: Tony Bennett or Frank Sinatra? Bruce Springsteen or Billy Joel? Yo La Tango

Why Hillary wants to win Long Island (Newsday) - During the 2000 campaign, the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association subjected Hillary Rodham Clinton to a grilling she might have expected at Bill O'Reilly's family picnic. Seventeen hostile union officials badgered her for hours about her husband's morality and rumors about her ties to '60s radicals. Then they whisked her out the door and backed Republican Rick Lazio.

169 Crane Island homes OK'd (Fernandina Beach News-Leader) - A pair of unanimous votes by the Nassau County Commission moved development plans for Crane Island two steps closer Monday. But commissioners put off a final decision on the project's development plan until next week.

A First for Rhode Island Firefighters - Bladder Cancer Screening is Underway in Five Communities With the NMP22(R) (RedNova) - In a first for Rhode Island, firefighters in Little Compton, Tiverton, Portsmouth, Middletown, and Jamestown are being offered free screening for bladder cancer in a voluntary program paid for and sponsored by their local state representatives.

Long Island residents push for causeway (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) - Residents of an island off Newfoundland's northeast coast want the provincial government to build a causeway rather than retool its ferry service.