Edward Miller

The opponents of affordable housing in Truro have rallied around the slogan “Keep Truro Rural.” Now we are hearing the same line about the Maurice’s Campground project in Wellfleet. We […]

Saturday was a dreary day. A good example, I think, of what Wyman Richardson was talking about in the chapter of The House on Nauset Marsh titled “The March Doldrums.” […]

What is the purpose of newspaper headlines, and who should write them, people or computers? At the Independent, we work on headlines at both ends of the editorial process. We […]

I learn a lot by reading the Arts & Minds pages. This week my antennae were activated by Dorothea Samaha’s article about Daniel Waite Penny and his podcast, Non-Toxic (see […]

“People think news deserts are only in flyover country,” said veteran reporter Samuel Freedman, who was quoted in a 2023 article in The Nation. “Local news, local journalism, is disappearing […]

This Saturday, March 8, is International Women’s Day, and while we listen to the 19 women DJs on WOMR (see page C9), I’ll be thinking about the women on the […]

The U.S. Postal Service was in the news again this week, thanks to a head-spinning series of flipflops by the administration about its plans for the mail. The president, who […]

“Media mistrust has been growing for decades — does it matter?” asked a recent report from the Pew Charitable Trusts. “Midway through the 20th century, the news media was among […]

As I read news reports about the team of young engineers and computer scientists deployed by Elon Musk to take over the financial systems of the U.S. Dept. of the […]

Following the Jan. 29 collision of a jet and an Army helicopter in Washington, D.C. that killed 67 people, the president blamed hiring practices at the Federal Aviation Administration for […]

Readers like to send me articles they think I should know about, often dealing with the press. One of the more unusual ones came this week from Tom Ryan in […]

Last week we reported that the Eastham Select Board had voted again, three to two, not to adopt the residential tax exemption (RTE), the option that enables a town to […]

There’s a kerfuffle going on in Wellfleet over clamshells. The town shellfish department uses cultch — recycled clam and oyster shells that form a bed for oyster larvae to grow […]