Several people were injured and others suffered property losses when a high-speed ferry returning weekend tourists from Martha’s Vineyard to New York was disabled by a freak wave.
Passengers on the Seastreak evening service were sprayed with shards of glass when the wave detached a heavy metal box containing life jackets from the bow of the vessel and drove it into a front window.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School profes sor, loves her Vineyard home not so much as a place to get away from it all as a place to think about it all.
“It’s a place to stand back and think big thoughts,” she said, seated on the patio of her home overlooking the Edgartown Great Pond. “We get so short-term in this country, so focused on the crisis of the moment.”
There is, she said, something clarifying about reconnecting with the timeless, something about nature that arouses a deeper contemplation of real values.
The Steamship Authority this week decided to charge more for ambulances taking patients off-Island for treatment.
And the fare increases, which will take effect from Nov. 1, will be steep — nearly 100 per cent on some trips from the Vineyard and more than 100 per cent for some Nantucket trips.
Currently, the SSA charges $102.50 per round-trip for ambulances on the Vineyard route, and $215 on the Nantucket route. The price includes the fares of the driver and passengers, and there is no extra fee if the ambulance is over 20 feet long.
When President Obama came to Martha’s Vineyard for a break this time last year, after just eight months in office, there were those who questioned why he was taking time off so soon. Surely, though, a year later few would doubt the man really, really needs a vacation.
By August 2009, the President’s political honeymoon was certainly over, but this time around, the polls point to an electorate contemplating divorce.
Alienated and impoverished young African Americans are being recruited to radical Islam, and could yet produce black America’s version of 9/11, a Christian Community leader has warned.
“I’m telling you, it’s a ticking bomb,” the Rev. Eugene Rivers, pastor of the Azusa Christian Community, told a conference on Race, Religion and Reason at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School on Wednesday.
The same proportion of white people as black smoke marijuana. So why are the incarceration rates for black dope smokers many times higher?
Why have incarceration rates overall in America quintupled in the past 30 years, while the nation’s crime rate has not changed substantially? And why does this country have the highest imprisonment rates in the world?
