School cybersecurity, Buffalo stadium, Gunnar Esiason and EVs
Now 30, Gunnar Esiason, executive vice president of the Boomer Esiason Foundtion, holds his son, Kaspar. Credit: Esiason Family
Schools must budget to keep hackers away
As a longtime information technology and cybersecurity professional, I know these hacking issues will continue to arise until cybersecurity programs are properly funded and staffed ["LI schools seeing big rise in computer attacks," News, March 28]. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done. Not only do cybersecurity professionals cost money, but training and tools are needed.Adding $200,000 to $400,000 to a budget for experienced professionals, along with tools and training for faculty and staff, is low on every school's to-do list.
Schools need to recognize this will continue to be a problem and begin budgeting for cybersecurity funding. Schools will continue being targets for hackers until they make it too difficult for them. Both private and public schools need to have conversations about technology as it plays a larger part in our children's education.
Michael Radzicki, Lindenhurst
Buffalo stadium costs us, not wealthy owners
Gov. Kathy Hochul is fooling no one when she denies that $880 million of taxpayer revenue will not come from state taxpayers ["Block Hochul stadium plan," Editorial, March 30]. She says that the revenue for the construction of a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills in her hometown will come from tax payments from the Seneca Nation. That money, like all other taxes, was supposed to go into the regular general tax fund to defray revenue being used for public institutions and entities, not to enrich, encourage and enable certain wealthy team owners to not pay for their own private entity. Her lack of honesty and candor is awful.
Howard Mandell, East Northport
The Long Island Expressway is in such deplorable condition, putting people's lives in imminent danger. The money planned for a new Buffalo Bills stadium should instead be used to repair major roads like the LIE. The entire road, in each direction, causes drivers to swerve to avoid the holes in the pavement, from the HOV lane to the far-right lanes. The Department of Transportation dumps asphalt that fails quickly. The DOT breaks up concrete and leaves it just off the pavement's edge. I guess the workers must not have shovels or brooms.
As I was stopped in traffic, I looked down at the seams. Some, three to four inches wide, could cause a car to be shoved into another lane. The Bills' money is already in the budget, yet the process moves at a slug's pace, and the Bills' owners are billionaires anyway. Do we need a chain-reaction disaster to get the LIE fixed correctly?
Arthur J. French, Wainscott
Old roads to LaGuardia no modern solution
Certainly a rail link to LaGuardia Airport would minimize the aggravation of getting a rush hour flight in the morning from Long Island ["Groups urge scrapping rail plans to LaGuardia," News, March 29]. At 7 a.m., thousands of cars are going west bumper to bumper on the Grand Central Parkway. The airport has been modernized, but the roads are ancient. An equal benefit would be getting people to no longer need to drive cars and improving air quality. Every year, dire warnings about air pollution come out, but nothing gets done. Just more happy talk from politicians.
Jack McDonough, Huntington
Don’t tell me I need to drive electric
A reader on a quest to ban internal combustion engines wrote what I should and shouldn’t drive [“Gas stations should be thinking electric,” Letters, March 31]. She may be “so done paying for gas,” but now she’ll be paying for electricity. We don’t need greener-than-thou woke activists shoving these expensive, range-challenged cars down our throats and wasting taxpayer money on infrastructure for their pet cause.
Joe Cesare, Copiague
How electric vehicles can pay for charging
We not only subsidize the cost of electric vehicles, we also pay to have them charged ["Charging for chargers," Our Towns, March 23]. What municipalities should do is cordon off a section of Long Island Rail Road parking lots with meters while cars are charged. There should be a minimum fee to enter that area, say $10, from which the charge rate would be deducted. This fee may prevent an unauthorized user from parking there.
Thomas Tierney, Greenlawn
Gunnar Esiason story a joy to behold
It was such a pleasure to read Neil Best’s story "To Gunnar, life now a dream come true" [Sports, March 30]. It made me so happy for the Esiason family. Hard work, determination, a miracle medication, and best of all, the love of family. Gunnar sounds like the true definition of a happy man
Robin Deissler, Merrick
