Affordable housing has been part of the land bank’s planning since 1989, when it first adopted a housing policy.

Plans are nothing. Planning is everything. Dwight Eisenhower said that in a moment of Zen. It must have been Christmastime.

At the height of boating activity last summer in Edgartown harbor, there was a pleasant surprise. Two dolphins spent three days swimming around.

I always believed that America’s greatest export was optimism. No country could rival our ability to dust ourselves off and start anew.

I am writing this letter as a concerned part-time resident of Martha’s Vineyard and an attorney with experience in mass tort litigation.

Two years ago I led the effort to save and preserve the Vineyard’s unique and iconic historic theatres.