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Stories by Mike Seccombe

Mike Seccombe

Off the Bench, Justice Marshall Shares Opinions

August 11, 2011
Mike Seccombe

Margaret Marshall is certainly no Pollyanna, but something about speaking with her kindles optimism.The former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has a way of looking at things...

Tisbury Trips Contract Clause Costing Seaver Construction $1,000 a Day

August 11, 2011
Mike Seccombe

Tisbury will begin assessing $1,000 a day against the contractor for the town’s troubled new emergency services building.The town selectmen voted without dissent on Tuesday to begin charging...

No Backup Is Plan: Voice Behind Stars Goes Solo

August 11, 2011
Mike Seccombe

It’s fair to say millions, possibly even billions, more people have heard Arnold McCuller than have heard of Arnold McCuller.If you’ve heard the music of Phil Collins, or Bonnie Raitt,...

Amnesty’s Frontlines Meet Harborfront

August 8, 2011
Mike Seccombe

A few months ago, Donatella Rovera was under rocket fire in Misrata, Libya. A couple of weeks ago Salil Shetty was in the slums of Suez, in Egypt, meeting with the families of the first casualties of...

Learning Every Trick in the Book To Open Festival

August 4, 2011
Mike Seccombe

On the face of it, Suellen Lazarus might seem an odd person to have started a book festival. She was a banker, not a professional bibliophile or bookstore owner or writer.But in a way, it was her...

Discovering What’s Down and Going Out in Pond

August 4, 2011
Mike Seccombe

Out in the middle of Meshacket Cove on the Edgartown Great Pond on Wednesday morning, David Schlezinger was going down for the third time, in nine feet of water.He wasn’t drowning, though. It...

Documentary Looks to Air Both Sides of Cape Wind

August 4, 2011
Mike Seccombe

Let’s face it, there are few pursuits more quixotic than that of journalistic objectivity. The preview screening of the documentary movie Cape Spin: An American Power Struggle in Oak Bluffs on...

Sebastian Junger on Brotherhood , Boys and the High of Not Dying

August 1, 2011
Mike Seccombe

Ultimately, war is merely the continuation of politics by other means. But intimately, it’s all about sociology and biology.And that’s the aspect of war which engaged Sebastian Junger, in...

Front Line Defender of Free Speech

July 28, 2011
Mike Seccombe

The overflow crowd gathered at the Chilmark Public Library to hear renowned Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday evening did not know it going in, but they were about to hear from an...

Tisbury Considers Changing Firms After Costly Grant Writing Error

July 28, 2011
Mike Seccombe

The town of Tisbury is pushing to have the Island stop using the grant-writing company whose mistake cost the Vineyard $2 million in state community development block grants for next year...

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