It seems strange to be writing about ticks in the middle of the Covid-19 surge, but I have a couple of things I would like to pass on as well as a request for help.
Robert Huss, the Oak Bluff port council member and George Balco, the Tisbury port council member have served their port towns and the Island of MV since 2005 and 2009 respectively.
The gate to racism that was swung wide open more than four years ago by the now-outgoing president unleashed a latent torrent of hate born in Virginia four centuries ago.
Ever since the death of Tony Meyer in 2009, a group of his friends have gathered from across the country in South Carolina for an October golf tournament.
In your editorial “Keeping it Small” in the Nov. 6 Gazette, you wrongly assert that Tip O’Neill’s maxim “All politics is local” is ungrammatical. In fact, it is perfectly correct. As Bryan Garner notes in his authoritative Garner’s Modern English Usage, “As with similar ics words denoting disciplines of academics and human endeavor, politics is treated as singular when it refers to the field itself (all politics is local) and as plural when it refers to a collective set of political stands (her politics were too mainstream for the party’s activists).”
