In this business, you’ve got to have a plan
Newspaper people have plenty to worry about, what with the recession and the World's Wild Web.
A chance to speak up about the cost of electricity
The Cape Wind deal to sell the electric power that the planned Nantucket Sound wind farm may one day produce will certainly cost electricity end-users more than conventionally produced power.
A recipe for working together
Last week in this space, I suggested that expansion of what is today a modest use of cooperative or regionalized services will be, as it has shown itself over decades to be, difficult.
This is no way to commence
It is distressing to think that members of the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School's Class of 2010 will commence their post-graduate lives Sunday in a spirit of controversy and division.
Regionalization is a people to people business
Helping one another, at the family, social, and municipal levels, is understood and practiced, almost flawlessly, on Martha's Vineyard.
A high price for a modest contribution
The May 7 announcement of a 15-year deal between Cape Wind and National Grid prices electricity created by wind turbines at 20.
They’re home
Writing the other day to a daughter, I recalled for her an occasion when my practices — long ago as a new, young parent — came into conflict with the seasoned practices of my own parents.
Divide and conquer
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.
The drug business and the courts
There is not the data one would need to conclude that the drug problem here is more severe today than it has historically been.
Jammin’ together
Some of you won't agree, naturally, but I think we've reached a tremulous equilibrium as regards online comments posted to mvtimes.
The Dunn site belongs in the public domain
Based upon the testimony so far, commercial developer Sam Dunn's plan to add business and residential spaces in what is now open space bordering on the Vineyard Haven arm of the Lagoon Pond will meet current regulatory standards.
Real estate “” is it who we are?
The news this morning is that the real estate market shows unmistakable signs of stabilizing.
A perverse strategy
Lots of Islanders have housing Odysseys to tell, and most are harrowing.
Shoulder padding
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.
Yes on beer and wine sales
The debate rages unabated over whether Tisbury will allow sale of beer and wine with meals in restaurants.