Archive for April, 2008
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Just out of a meeting in which we shared with employees the news about their health insurance coverage, namely that it will cost more but not be any better, I came across a report underwritten by the Pew Center on the States. Entitled "Grading the States", the report gives Masssachusetts ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
A colleague who knows this stuff pointed me to an online news report on WebProNews.com, which tots up the Barack Obama presidential campaign spending on web ads. I am delighted to report that some of that money has come our way. You may have noticed a slew of Obama ads ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
This business encourages skepticism. Newspaper folk are skeptical of politicians, as politicians are skeptical of us. Everyday folk are skeptical of politicians and newspaper types. They should be. No argument here. Then there was the 2000 Florida hullabaloo, which raised the skepticism multiplier for all involved - the politicians, the ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
The problems associated with changing the oil, and the oil and fuel filters, of a diesel engine in a small boat are countless. But, add the one foot roll from the 15 mph southeast wind, and the afternoon may prove catastrophic. After all, the engine is in the middle of the ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
When I began newspapering, in 1972, at the Vineyard Gazette, the news flowed or pottered from the mind of the reporter through a Royal Underwood manual typewriter to yellow paper, from which a Linotype operator in the grungy back shop transformed letters and symbols into lead slugs, which a compositor ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
I noticed that Edward Lorenz died the other day. He was a meteorologist. He was not a summer visitor, he did not enjoy quahoging in Antier's Pond or walking at Squibnocket. He was not a longtime member of the Barnacle Club. He was the guy who originated and helped develop ...
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Doug Cabral is the editor of The Martha's Vineyard Times.
