Ask Nobel prize winning economist Robert Solow why those of us who toil away diligently in the real economy should be required to come up with vast amounts of money to pay the gambling debts of Wall Street, and he begins his answer with what he calls the standard analogy.
“That is this: if your neighbor likes to smoke in bed and as a result sets his house on fire, it’s still in your interest to put out that fire, or else your own house will burn.”
As many as 166 wind turbines, generating enough electricity to power some 200,000 homes, could be built in Vineyard waters under a state draft ocean management plan released on Wednesday.
The plan sets aside two areas, one on the far side of Noman’s Land and the other off the Elizabeth Islands, as the sites which would provide almost all the offshore wind power for the state of Massachusetts.
The financial cost of the most recent round of feuding within the Tisbury police department and the related departure of former chief John Cashin is finally available, and it is more than $30,000.
Some eight weeks after Mr. Cashin went public with the extraordinary criticisms of his “dysfunctional” department which cost him his job, the town this week released details of his severance package.
The task of finding a solution to the gradual disappearance of the view from the Tashmoo overlook was firmly dropped back in the laps of the selectmen by the town’s conservation commission this week.
The commission told a small group of people concerned about the view that it would not attempt to force the owners of a stand of willow trees, which are progessively obscuring the view, to prune or remove them, because it had no power to do so.
Of course, when you are working on the largest cooperative project in the history of marine biology, a 10-year, $600 million census of all the world’s marine life, you need to know something about the tax regime in 14th century Czarist Russia.
Let professor Jesse Ausubel, cofounder of the project, explain.
Anybody listening to music anywhere on Martha’s Vineyard but at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs on Friday night was listening in the wrong place.
Which means all but about 50 people on the Island. For that was the total crowd which turned up to hear the Elio Villafranca trio’s two shows at 7 and 9 p.m.
And that is sad thing, as much as the man who brought the trio, broadcaster, documentary maker and general jazz aficionado Jim Luce, tried to make light of it before the trio’s second show.
