Thursday, March 28, 2024

Soundings

Micromanaging the MVC

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The Edgartown selectmen have been known to protest against the popular Island perception of Edgartown as the Island town that plays least well with others.

Full disclosure, and a tax satisfaction index

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A patron stopped at the Edgartown Library desk last Wednesday and asked when The Martha's Vineyard Times planned to publish its annual property tax listings.

You could look it up

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Back in December of last year, a lively online discussion was sparked when this newspaper reported that Edgartown voters would be asked, at our 2010 annual town meeting, to borrow $4 million to build a new public library.

Forward into the past

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For those of us who live and work here year-round, Labor Day is one of the most eagerly awaited holidays of the year.

The view from Room 214

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War, said the wag, is how Americans learn geography.

Grading our teachers

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I visited with Jim Weiss, our superintendent of schools, not long after the flap that played out on the front pages of both Island newspapers over a few students who wanted to wear their Brazilian national colors on graduation day.

Divide and conquer

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I heard this story 25 or 30 years ago, when the Island chiefs of police would gather once a month or so over coffee or sandwiches to talk shop and share information.

Shoulder padding

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The director of an Island nonprofit with whom I meet every week looked out from his office window a month ago and surveyed a raw, drizzly, early-spring morning.

The best ideas

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After six weeks of hour-long conversations about the Island Plan, presented this February and March at the Edgartown Library, I come away with two central thoughts.

Not the last word

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Since early November, I've been working freelance for the Martha's Vineyard Commission to copy-edit and wrestle onto pages the final, printed version of the Island Plan. I note this at the outset so that...

Thinking outside the bubble

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There's been a surreal quality to all this past year's news of economic disasters. The most difficult idea for us to accept on the Island, I think, is that perhaps the value of real...