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Thursday, January 29, 2026 ~ Volume 71 ~ Issue Number 9 ~ $1.00
D.A. Tierney Sworn in for Second Term By Matt Meduri Last Thursday, January 22, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney (R) was sworn in to begin a second, four-year term. Tierney made his maiden voyage in politics in 2021, unseating then-D.A. Tim Sini (D-Mt. Sinai) in the red wave that also allowed Republicans to take control of the Suffolk County Legislature for the first time in nearly fifteen years. Tierney unseated the one-term Sini by a whopping eleven points - 55.46%-44.54%. Within the first two years of his term, Tierney accomplished the near-unthinkable: promulgating a suspect in the Gilgo Beach murders, a serial killing spree that rocked Long Island from 1993 to 2011. To date, suspect Rex Heuermann, of Massapequa Park, has been charged with seven murders in the spree, including the original “Gilgo Four.” Continued on page 4 D.A. Tierney (right) sworn into office, joined by wife Erica (Credit - Matt Meduri)
LaLota Secures $375M+
for Brookhaven National Lab By Matt Meduri
Congressman Nick LaLota (R-Amityville) (Credit - Matt Meduri)
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Congressman Nick LaLota (R-Amityville), the Northeast’s only Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, just this week announced a slew of funding to bolster Suffolk’s research capabilities, coastal protection, and public safety. Among those initiatives were several, high-profile rounds of funding for the nationally and internationally renowned Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The $377 million spending package is part of the House’s three FY2026 appropriations bills: Interior and Environment, Energy and Water, and Commerce, Justice, and Science. The Upton facility is one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s ten national laboratories, paving the way in nuclear physics, energy technology, and high-energy sciences. BNL is home to the only relativistic heavy ion collider in the country - also the world’s only polarized proton collider. The 2.4-mile ring smashes heavy ions and protons at practical light speed, reaching temperatures nearly 250,000 times hotter than the sun’s core. The collider is employed to study the fundamental properties of nuclear matter and its results are set to support a future electron-ion collider (EIC). The collider is currently in its twenty-fifth and final run. For this prestigious and one-of-a-kind device, LaLota secured $182 million for its preparation to transition to an EIC. Another $155 million was earmarked for the EIC’s construction, a $45 million increase from last year. Continued on page 10
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