The proposed housing bank bill replaces the direct democracy of town meeting with a central committee, consisting of seven commissioners, one elected from each town, and a seventh commissioner elected Islandwide.

I first met John Phillips when he stepped off the Steamship Authority ferry in Oak Bluffs almost three decades ago.

So it is April at last. The daffodils are up, but not all in bloom yet.

Our dad Richard Leonard was promoted to president and CEO of the Martha’s Vineyard Cooperative Bank in 1989 — a big job for an Island boy freshly graduated from University of Massachusetts.

“The Ukraine crisis is something we don’t want to see.”

—Xi Jinping

Blood Pudding by Ivan Cox is framed as a long-lost memoir of its narrator, Tadeusz Malinowski.