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Justin Poulsen, the executive director of the New Bedford Port Authority, met with a Steamship Authority task force Tuesday to discuss the possibility of freight service from the city to Martha’s Vineyard. After a discussion that lasted more than an hour, Steve Sayers, who acts as a consultant for the SSA with the task force, […]

The Martha's Vineyard Times A proposed amendment to the Steamship Authority’s Enabling Act by State Sen. Susan Moran, D-Falmouth, that would change the weighted votes for Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket on the SSA board was met with immediate and vocal opposition — and we need to keep those voices strong and united. Moran’s bill aims to provide “parity” on the SSA board — giving the five member ports an equal vote at the table. Right now, both the Vineyard representative and the Nantucket representative have a supermajority with weighted vo...

The Martha's Vineyard Times Moran tries to blunt Islands’ SSA vote ‘Legislation like that only serves to tear us apart,’ Jones says. Updated April 21 The structural majority afforded the Vineyard and Nantucket through the Steamship Authority’s enabling act could come to an end if a bill sponsored by State Senator Susan Moran, D-Falmouth, is voted into law. Moran told The Times Wednesday the bill aims to provide “parity” between the port communities. “My bill really looks at some parity between the island communities and the mainland communities s...

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