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We finally reached the island at about 7 pm, after more than 24 hours of travel and waiting. The group is a nice collection of journalists and tour operators, a large contingent of about 40 or so, all here for the Italy Symposium, where Sardinian tourism potential will be the […]

I’m about to depart on another transatlantic adventure, this time with Cindy by my side. We fly from JFK to Rome on Sunday night and then over to the island of Sardinia, off Italy’s coast. We will join a group of writers from around the US beginning Monday morning and […]

Larry Kelley isn’t happy. He’s the biggest booster of the Fourth of July Parade in Amherst, and he was dealt a severe blow by his nemesis, Gerald Weiss, whom he likes to refer to as ‘his lordship.’ Actually it was the town Manager Larry Shaffer and Weiss plus the rest […]

I read about John McCain’s new economic plan and wow, does he give the Dems some great ammunition. The WSJ, conservative and Republican as it is, put it straight. The Senator who voted against George Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy twice is now espousing both these cuts and more. […]

Oh, how sad, the rich have been vanquished in Nantucket. A few months ago I wrote about the effort by some of Nantucket’s richest citizens to dredge sand from the ocean in order to prop up the cliffs beneath their seaside mansions on a bluff in Siasconset, and how this […]

I saw a provocative ad in the NY Times a week ago, and tonight read a review on MSNBC…it was for a movie made by pundit Ben Stein called ‘Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed.” At first blush, and even after watching a trailer, I didn’t get what the movie was about […]

Last night’s film stayed with me for a long time. Todd Field’s “Little Children” used a narrator, the sonorous Will Lyman, who set the stage from the opening scene, where a trio of gossiping, sniping suburban housewives in a park sat apart from a fourth young mother, who just didn’t […]

It’s a beautiful warm spring day and as I sat in my favorite seat by the windows in front of the cafe, I read about an ambitious man in India whose stock is plummeting….despite the fact that his company is the fifth largest supplier of wind turbines in the world. […]

Dave Lenson came into the cafe on Monday afternoon with sad news. He said that Buddy Rubbish was near death, having been rushed to the hospital on Friday night with severe chest pains. Yesterday’s Gazette had the story of the death of one of the funniest guys in the Valley. […]