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.
Open government requires quality leaders
Oak Bluffs secrecy is the subject of MVTimes scrutiny this morning, but the issue is common to all of the public agencies that do the people's business, in the six towns and at the regional and county levels.
My plea – let go of the Roundabout
Consulting psychologists recommend that obsessions can be tricky.
Wedding season is upon us. But, what about marriage?
For those of us who think of spring as the sailing season, the golfing season, the gardening season, or the house-painting season — we're wrong.
A stern talking to and a judicious analysis of the criminal damage
And now a moment's pause to admire Edgartown District Court Judge H.
Comcast gets the news, the sequel
It wasn't just Pam Dolby who was astonished by the gulf between what Comcast says publicly about its Martha's Vineyard contract negotiations and what it really says at the negotiating table.
Hogwash and the straight dope – Comcast and Edgartown
Our neighbor Brian Roberts of West Tisbury, the chief of Comcast, may have a hazy sense of the troubled negotiations continuing between the Island's cable advisory board and his $43 billion company, for a new 10-year contract to provide cable TV services to the residents of Martha's Vineyard.
A library moment for an Island that loves its libraries
In the season of annual town meetings that opens this Tuesday, public libraries are making headlines in four of the six Island towns.
It’s time to have your say
West Tisbury may style itself the Athens of the Island, but the truth is that Island voters in all six towns may shed their workaday selves and behave like Athenians (pre-European debt debacle Athenians, that is) at annual town meetings beginning next week.
A legislative mish-mash will hike electricity costs
Taxpayers state- and nationwide must pay the bill for the electricity they use.
Telltale signs of good old spring
I'm not worried about the mild winter and the early and heartening plunge into spring.
A shift in Tisbury, in response to the times
Tisbury selectmen have abandoned their longstanding property tax policy, which shifted a significant share of the tax burden from residential property owners to business property owners.
That decisive time of year
Islanders who gather in annual town meetings beginning next month will join a select democratic fraternity.
Gracelessness and generosity at war
You may have concluded, as I have, that modern American social behavior and conversation — particularly political conversation — have become coarser as the years have passed, the world has gotten smaller, and its peoples closer.