Do any of you remember Tom Lehrer’s song “New Math” from back in 1965? It was his send-up of trendy math teaching of the time, in which he deftly pattered […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Fitness Training
In June 2019, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of the District of Columbia considered a challenge to the renewal of a liquor license for the Trump International Hotel on the […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Hope Over Experience
Not long ago, a disgruntled reader of the Independent complained that I was “a typical washashore.” There’s some truth in that. I don’t have a long family history here. I […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
What Makes Us Weep?
I feel sorry for the editors of big-city newspapers, and not just because so many of them now work for corporations that are constantly looking for ways to eliminate their […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Drama on the School Field
We have not one but two of our annual town meetings happening this Saturday, in Wellfleet and Truro, so fans of pure democracy will have to choose which one to […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Joy Riding Into the Future
I was a little taken aback this week when I read Dennis Minsky’s column about picking a grave site. He’s right, of course, about taking care of these things ourselves […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The CDC’s Garbage Data
An Independent reader who has been closely following news of the Covid-19 pandemic pointed out a strange fact some weeks ago: the federal Centers for Disease Control’s Covid Data Tracker […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
From Crisis to Disaster
“It’s the saddest thing,” said Jennifer Cabral to Paul Sullivan, our reporter working on a story about people looking for reasonably priced places to live. Cabral is the moderator of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
They All Said Yes
A year ago, as we faced the lengthening shutdown and the disappearance of what we had thought would be our first big period of growth as a young newspaper, we […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Cost of Misplaced Caution
“What the hell is going on in Wellfleet?” is what we’ve heard in recent weeks from various readers. It’s a good question. We’ve tried to look into the town’s financial […]
TRANSITIONS
Maxwell Keller Is New Indie Arts Editor
Saskia Maxwell Keller will succeed Howard Karren as arts editor of the Provincetown Independent, beginning with the issue of May 13, Publisher Teresa Parker announced this week. Karren is retiring […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Remembering Chuck Strum
Our friend Merrill sent us a kind note the other day about the things she enjoys in the Independent, including the obituaries. I’ve already written about why people shouldn’t have […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Righting the Township
At the April 13 meeting of the Wellfleet Select Board, after observing that Town Administrator Maria Broadbent’s summary of a financial audit was “very alarming,” the board’s chair, Michael DeVasto, […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
History Lessons
One of the Independent’s contributors whose work is especially enlightening is Amy Whorf McGuiggan, who writes the Graveyard Shift column. She never fails to come up with a good story […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Lawyer’s Feint
Ben Zehnder is mad at me. He’s well known as the go-to lawyer around here if you need a variance, or if you have gotten into a fight with a […]
