Silly, familiar civil wars consume us
The Roundabout debate reminds me of Martha's Vineyard's historic and persistent polarity.
We remember liberty’s tune
The glorious national birthday we celebrate invites us to hoist our flags and drop our guard against the off-Island world and to consider the marvelous connections we have with the vast palette of Americans, quite a few of whom have chosen to celebrate their independence here with us.
The Steamship Authority maintains a careful balance
A Steamship Authority analysis of its cost of service on Vineyard routes over the five years from 2007 through 2011 shows an enterprise experiencing modestly growing revenues and making a successful effort to keep expenses in line.
Let’s talk about it, but let’s do it
Martha's Vineyard Commission member Lenny Jason of Chilmark has good reason to believe that his MVC colleagues abused him and the Island critics of the Roundabout, to be built at the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road's Blinker intersection.
A great gift and a fresh start
Thimble Farm will continue to be a farm, we learn this week, because of a combination of a generous private owner and generous friends of the Island Grown Initiative (IGI).
A Comment course correction
It's been a vigorous couple of weeks in the Comment weeds on mvtimes.
Newspapers take stock. Or do they?
Newspaper people spend a lot of time thinking about their business and their places in it.
Happy trails
Last month, after my column on the Vineyard Transit Authority was published here, I was struck by the vehemence of one online poster who lambasted our regional bus service as a source of traffic congestion and air pollution and an assault on American free enterprise.
Hope and change in West Tisbury
There is every reason to complain that West Tisbury is going about this dogs, no dogs thing on Lambert's Cove Beach all wrong.
One Island to another
Now that the last of the kids has graduated, we're going to spend a few days at another island.
An invitation to the dance
On graduation weekend in the City by the Bay, the big draw was the Bay to Breakers 12K.
A job finance committees ought to do
Town finance committees – and the Dukes County finance advisory board, for that matter – represent an indispensable hedge against calamitous financial decisions made by each community's operating political leadership.
A quarter century of stories
At its annual conference May 4, at Boston University, the New England Scholastic Press Association recognized The Martha's Vineyard Times and me for 25 years of support for the High School View.
Massachusetts’ embrace of casino economy will harm us all
Gaming will abuse the people and sully the government of Massachusetts.
A happy-making read for armchair sailors
In June 2002, in this space, I described a day of clean up aboard the boat.
Spring says, How you doing?
If you've lived here as long as I have, the coincident arrival of spring and cold, rainy, easterly weather is unsurprising.
Transit Into summer
Imagine running a service that sees demand double each year from February to April, double again from April to May, again from May to June and again from June to July.