The growth in online video consumption in the United States is currently being driven by increased viewing of long-form programming, such as TV shows...
Andy Plesser | Posted 04.20.2012
John Hix, the noted Canadian architect and developer of the Hix Island House, the high-design, eco-resort on the Caribbean island of Vieques, has ope...
Andy Plesser | Posted 09.02.2011
Reach for Success has helped scores of young people go on to college through preparation and financial assistance.
Andy Plesser | Posted 09.02.2011
We toured historic Malecon in Esperanza, the sleepy tourist town on the south coast of Vieques, the "perfect tropical harbor."
Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011
Horses love mangoes and in Vieques in the summer there are so many that they rot in streets. Sometimes friendly humans bring mangoes to horses as a...
Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011
There is such an abundance of mangoes on the island in July and August, that we simply can't eat them all, so we gather the rotting ones from the gr...
Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011
VIEQUES, Puerto Rico - With just two frying pans and a toaster in his first restaurant some 40 years ago, Hugh Duffy, who will be 90 next year, is p...
Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011
VIEQUES, PR -- John Hix, the Canadian-born architect who developed the "eco-hip," retreat the Hix Island House, sees Vieques as largely undeveloped ...
Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011
After a long delays and a good bit of anticipation, the W Retreat and Spa opened earlier this year on Vieques and we had a look. The architecture, d...
Rep. Steven Rothman | Posted 05.25.2011
The people of Vieques deserve answers for the undisputed high rates of disease that they have encountered over the years after military weapons tests.
Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011
We owe the residents of Vieques full compensation for the illnesses they are suffering courtesy of the U.S. Navy, which used the tiny island as its premiere weapons testing site for over 60 years.
Jesse Lava | Posted 05.25.2011
Vieques is a small island with a big problem. And the Obama administration is fighting to keep it that way.
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Dropping the sovereign immunity defense in the Vieques environmental case would demonstrate the Obama administration's commitment to ending the overzealous use of national defense claims.
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson acknowledged the need to clean up the island of Vieques last week at the national convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
In the government's twisted logic, warning people about the impending bombing that will contaminate their air, water, soil and bodies could harm these citizens more.
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama should instruct all relevant federal agencies to live up to his stated commitment to address the health crisis in Vieques immediately, pursue an "environmentally acceptable" clean-up for Vieques, and work toward a fair and complete resolution to the ongoing litigation.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. Navy has denied Chelsea Clinton permission to campaign for her mother on a former bombing range on a small Puer...
Andy Plesser | Posted 05.30.2012