It has been 2,755 days since the Cape Wind project was first formally proposed. It is a controversy older than the war in Iraq. Hostilities began only a few weeks after the war in Afghanistan.
And, as in those other conflicts, indeed in any protracted battle, it’s crucial to maintain morale of the troops, particularly when your allies are dropping off and it looks as if you’re losing. Surveys show public opinion in the state is strongly in favor of the wind farm, and the Patrick administration in Boston, too.
Tisbury selectmen this week responded sharply to criticism of their style of management, following accusations of secrecy in relation to police chief John Cashin’s departure, and broader criticism about undue interference in the affairs of town departments.
At the beginning of Tuesday’s meeting of the selectmen, board chairman Tristan Israel gave a spirited defense of the board and its actions, saying he believed the town to be the most open on the Island.
In July of 2007, 10 months after Tisbury police chief John Cashin had begun his job, the Tisbury selectmen received a letter from the mayor of Norwalk, Conn., where Mr. Cashin had been police chief for 25 years before moving to the Island.
The letter from the mayor was responding to scathing comments Mr. Cashin had made to The Hour, a Norwalk daily newspaper, about his former job.
The letter was brief but pointed, and followed an irate phone call to Thomas Pachico, then chairman of the town selectmen.
Elio Silva has no more regard for credit card companies than most of us — probably less, in fact. But unlike most people, he has a plan to do something about them, and all those other financial forces which conspire to eat away at our money, percentage point by percentage point.
The answer is to make our own. Literally. He has begun doing it, producing a new currency, he calls the Martha’s Vineyard Greenback.
Some 1,500 Vineyard residents will have to find a new health insurer, following the Island hospital’s decision to stop accepting the Boston Medical Center (BMC) HealthNet program, one of two Commonwealth Care providers here.
From the end of June, BMC will withdraw from the Island and another insurer, Neighborhood Health, will come in. The other insurer, Network Health, will continue to offer coverage, which still leaves people with a choice of two.
Almost two years before he made the scathing comments about the Tisbury police which cost him his job, police chief John Cashin launched a similar broadside, aimed at his former colleagues on the Norwalk, Ct., police force
It was on July 26, 2007 and Mr. Cashin was almost 10 months into his tenure as Tisbury chief when he elected to speak to The Hour, a daily newspaper in his former town, damning the force there for insubordination, lack of discipline and immorality, and calling for a complete shake-up of the department.
