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I remember having a conversation with a portfolio manager at a big mutual fund and when asking him why he owned XYZ Insurance Corp. in his fund he casually responded that it was “filler.” He went on to describe that term as a company whose stock was reasonably priced but whose prospects were ‘Mehh,’ yet he needed something to fill out his portfolio to get to 25-30 different stocks. Filler is also how I would describe a lot of local news, whereby instead of stocks we get stories of little consequence, or about somewhere other than LIC, in order to make print. I try to avoid filler amap, even if it means posting inconsistently and getting dinged for it by Google’s SEO algorithm. My readers and their valuable time are more important than AI generated adulation.

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.

LOST in the hubbub of the election, it’s aftermath, and a raging pandemic, was the second anniversary of Amazon’s announcement of Long Island City as the co-winner for HQ2 on November 5. Were it to have been consummated the headquarters would probably have been in its early stages of development right now. While office workers would have been a few years out (ex those assigned to the Citi Building in Court Square), construction workers would have been plentiful, buttressing the lunch time and happy hour business along Vernon Boulevard. And the thought of what was to come in another year or two would have given LIC a light at the end of the tunnel. Now we have?