The U.S. Virgin Islands and other islands in the Caribbean are vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Arlington, Virginia, has an election board that does exactly what the V.I. board does, except it does it every year, not every other year, and at a substancial savings.

Source columnist Frank Schneiger looks into his crystal ball and finds a discouraging news item 30 years hence about the way the V.I. Senate does business -- or doesn't.

The hardest time to really understand something is often while it is happening. The big messages are often obscured by “noise,” such as “recall” proposals.

Source publisher and Rwanda Project co-founder Shaun Pennington gets out the word on helping to support the project by buying a raffle ticket or making a tax-exempt contribution.

If you multiply the number of naturalizations in 2011 by the fees one pays (and the V.I. government receives) the total is $420,920.

Mathematics are universal and I think it might be helpful to discuss the question of just how many signatures will be needed to put the proposed recall on the ballot.

Week beginning January 28/29: Purposefulness

The Source is supporting the Virtues Project, an international initiative focused on building peaceful and caring communities. We are publishing the 52 virtues developed by the project every week for the next year. The Source takes no credit for anything other than providing a prominent place for these ideals to be seen and hopefully discussed and, more importantly, lived.

This week's virtue is purposefulness.

The V.I. Energy Office fully supports the utilization of waste-to-energy technology as a component of the Virgin Islands’ energy portfolio. The conversion of municipal solid waste to a usable fuel represents a commercially-proven, renewable source of energy and provides a desirable alternative to oil-burning generating units

In downtown St. Thomas, there is a shop with a T-shirt with a grimacing skull and crossbones and the message: TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS, AND BUSINESS IS GOOD.