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After three years of exhaustive discussion and analysis on a wide range of issues from nitrogen loading in coastal ponds to traffic backups at key intersections, the Island Plan is ready for public release.
A draft version of the final plan will be released by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission this morning.
With a great deal more hope than expectation, Tisbury selectmen decided on Tuesday evening to make application for a share of $10 million in state grant money to fund energy efficiency and renewable energy initiatives.
The trouble is, the money comes with conditions attached — conditions Tisbury and other Island towns cannot possibly meet.
Check out the Wikipedia list of the biggest-selling music albums of all time, and you’ll notice one thing immediately: all of them are old.
The most recent of the top 10 was released a decade ago. Most of the rest came out more than 30 years ago. The biggest of them all, Michael Jackson’s 110 million-selling Thriller, dates from 1982.
And it’s not just that the mega albums don’t happen anymore. Total sales are down dramatically too.
The myth that America has somehow become post-racial with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency was most succinctly nailed by the Rev. Eugene Rivers, in a fire and brimstone address at the regional high school on Wednesday.
“There is one black man in the White House and a million black men in prison,” he thundered.
Gas
Prices for regular unleaded gas as of Aug. 12:
Edgartown
Airport Mobil $3.439 Depot Corner $3.399
Edgartown Mobil $3.459
Oak Bluffs
deBettencourt’s $3.459
Jim’s $3.479
Vineyard Haven
Citgo $3.459
Tisbury Shell $3.459
West Tisbury
Up-Island Automotive $3.279
Menemsha
Menemsha Texaco $3.239
Massachusetts state average (source: AAA) $2.645
Grocery Basket
People have asked her, in their quest to initiate a program similar to the longstanding summer Camp Jabberwocky, how to go about doing so without any start-up money.
Money? Who needs money?