On Friday night a kind of history was made when Imam Yahya Hendi took the pulpit at the St. Thomas Synagogue during the Sabbat service. He will take a position at two more pulpits over the next few days; we hope as many people as possible will be there to witness these groundbreaking events.

Should there have been any lingering hope that the 26th Legislature would work together in unity, Monday's first Senate session seems to have shot that notion right out of the saddle.

The Virgin Islands government, alas, does not have a reputation for transparency. It, in fact, frequently treats information that is public as though it were personal information – nobody's business but its own. Darlene Carty, Health Commissioner, is following the tradition with her handling of the issuance of a Certificate of Need for a controversial ambulatory surgical center under a shroud of secrecy.

We can't say for sure, but it seems like every intersection mirror, placed at places where visibility is poor to non-existent, is broken – and has been for weeks, if not months. And then there are the bushes.

We are forced to wonder if Gov. Charles W. Turnbull has ever had a pet or loved an animal.

It's a new day in the Virgin Islands. The people have spoken up for financial accountability.

While the PSC kowtows to the phone company, the rate payers, businesses and investors in the territory are being handed the short end of the stick, again.

Once again Gov. Charles W. Turnbull has taken the low road where accountability and ending corruption, waste and abuse in government are concerned. It is now up to our senators to override the governor's veto of a bill that sought to give peace-officer status to the inspector general and his officers.

One year – almost to the day – before he was killed Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech to a meeting of concerned clergy and lay people at the Riverside Church in New York City. The focus of the gathered assemblage was the Vietnam War. The speech, one of King's lesser known, is chillingly pertinent today.

Five years ago -- with the launching of its St. Thomas edition on Jan. 15, 1999 -- the Source embarked on a journey with no road map. "Little did we know that we were on the cutting edge of a whole new world of Internet publishing," publisher Shaun A. Pennington says, reflecting on what the Source hoped to achieve and assessing how well it has done.