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Friday, June 20th, 2008
I've fallen down on the job. I know this blog thing ought to be a minute by minute, or at least hour by hour, or maybe day by day, account of my every waking thought, but often I'm not thinking of anything. Or, all I've thought of has ended up in ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The not-in-my-backyard attitude is widely disdained. Macro-cosmically, an example might be the Vineyard's opposition to the Oak Bluffs golf course plan of several years ago, and to one of two Edgartown golf course plans that surfaced about the same time. For a variety of reasons - aesthetic, cultural, environmental - ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
The Free Flow of Information Act cleared the House late last year, but its future is hardly assured. Although most of the members of the House supported the measure, and although journalists, news organizations, media of all sorts, and even bloggers – who hope to be included under whatever protections ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
No matter which side you favored, Tisbury's two-vote rejection of beer and wine is less satisfying, and less instructive to the town's leaders, than one might have wished. What's a town official to think? Progressive change or hold the line? Strengthen the business community with tailored incentives and more flexible development rules, ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Words matter, of course. I can't remember which of the two Democrat presidential candidates said that, but nevermind. To them, to most, probably all politicians, words matter as leverage, bargaining tools, links, placeholders, self-revelatory prompts, a kiss.
How else might words matter, really matter. To the novelist, or to the genuine ...
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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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Doug Cabral is the editor of The Martha's Vineyard Times.
