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The new Project 2000 report outlines many of the same problems and possible solutions as a Newsday series, "Long Island at the Crossroads," published a decade ago.
The 1978 series documented the stagnating effects of high taxes, soaring energy costs, expensive and scarce housing, fragmented government, costly public services and the lack of a common regional identity and power structure that could tackle the problems.
After a decade, the "Crossroads" scorecard is a split decision. Several of the priorities went nowhere. Others were addressed but never materialized.
After Newsday published its 64-page series, more than 200 Long Island leaders gathered at the State University at Stony Brook in April, 1978, in hope of spurring action on the top 10 priority projects defined by Crossroads. The action targets were the consensus of interviews with about 2,000 persons in academic, government, planning, business and labor fields.
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