Eight candidates, including six incumbents, are running for seven seats on the Dukes County Commission this year. In advance of the election, the Gazette emailed questions to all the candidates.
Vineyard voters will go to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots in the much-anticipated mid-term election. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. in every Island town.
A friend of mine is the mother of a transgender son who lives on the Island.
I am the chief nurse executive at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and will be voting no on ballot question 1.
One reason I am voting yes on Question 1 is my memory of hours spent with my mother, my wife, my children, and other loved ones in hospitals hearing the incessant din of alarms, and even occasional cries and groans of distress.
The evil acts perpetrated over the last week once again demonstrate that our country still suffers from episodes of real division, hatred and unabashed racism.