JOB WELL DONE

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ACCIDENT AFTERMATH

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UNSPEAKABLE TRAGEDY

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I weep. For 30 years I have held my tongue, not wanting to be an Ibsenian “Enemy of the People.” Two weeks ago I was crossing the Look street intersection and saw a family — with an infant in one of those little carts! — struggling up the hill, unaware of the near-death experiences that await them, not just on that section of State Road, but riding to Gay Head or even just Lambert’s Cove Road. I can still feel the pit in my stomach.

WITHOUT CAUSE

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WIND TOWERS

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I just don’t feel comfortable that any planning agency on this Island has the comprehension or rules in place to handle the potential for the proliferation of hundreds of steel towers that may be constructed on this Island in the coming years.

POSITIVE SIGNS

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As the nation weathers its horrific, self-inflicted, environmental Pearl Harbor in the Gulf of Mexico, we also continue to endure the ongoing, widespread, business as usual devastation caused by coal use and the invisible harm emanating from our fleet of nuclear power plants (tritium leaking into drinking water aquifers, for example).