The voting is over and the arguing over the votes has begun. Everything, it seems, is open to question these days, at least on the national level.

On the eve of an election marked by the bitterest presidential race in modern history, Martha’s Vineyard voters hardly need the usual exhortation to vote.

When the Martha’s Vineyard Commission was created by an act of the legislature 46 years ago, it was not so much a reaction to development as a concern for what many saw coming, as the Island began to change from a quiet backwater to a more upscale summer resort.

A plague of lone star ticks. Pestilence in our ponds. Hunger. Homelessness. Drought. Even here, eight miles from America, the headlines are dire.

One of the positive ironies of the Covid era is the way it has cast a spotlight on Martha’s Vineyard’s homeless problem.

A sudden outbreak of Covid-19 cases on our sister island of Nantucket last week is a sharp reminder of the insidiousness of this virus.