Town meetings are coming, and we are wondering how local citizens and governments will navigate hot-button issues this year. At last spring’s town meeting in Truro, a proposed change in […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Test for the Schools
Words matter. They can be used to hide the truth or to reveal it. The Provincetown Select Board gave us a fine example of the latter this week. One month […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Public Editor Again
Walking to our office in Whalers Wharf the other day, I passed by a busker outside Marine Specialties playing the guitar and singing an old Beatles song: “What would you […]
WELLFLEET WOES
State Financial Management Review Cites Failures of Leadership
The town still does not have an accurate set of books, says DOR report
WELLFLEET — A long-awaited financial management review by the state Dept. of Revenue (DOR) blames a “lack of definitive leadership” for the town’s “years of distress, inconsistent financial planning, and […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
February Scars
A lot of us live on Outer Cape Cod because someone drew us here. My sister, Harriet Miller, was the one who got us to Wellfleet. She served on the […]
SCHOOLING
‘All Lives Matter’ Sign Raises Questions at Nauset High
Message is defended by school leaders as ‘celebrating inclusion’
EASTHAM — A banner posted in the main administration building at Nauset Regional High School to celebrate Black History Month has upset some students because it includes the message “All […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Black Lives Matter
The indispensable historian Heather Cox Richardson wrote this week in her “Letters From an American” about the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Making Schools Safer
“By the early years of the twenty-first century, police had become a normal presence in sites ranging from mental health agencies to hospital emergency rooms to schools to welfare offices,” […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Small-Town Comrades
Unexpected connections here often take the form of discovering who is related to whom — that the furniture maker who lives down the road is the cousin of the guy […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Public’s Editor
“All authority implies an extreme reluctance to admit past error,” wrote British novelist Patrick O’Brian in The Letter of Marque. O’Brian was writing about the Royal Navy, but the truth […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Dire Demographics
Is the Outer Cape a good place for children to grow up? I’ve always thought so. The natural beauty that has inspired so many artists and writers — the sea, […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Affliction and Comfort
“The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” This crack is attributed to Mr. Dooley, a dyspeptic Irish bartender who was the invention of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Drama in the Back Pages
Are you the kind who reads the paper cover to cover? I’m thinking of the back of Section B of the Independent, where you will find the legal notices in […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Venture Journalism
George Santos was elected to Congress last month from New York’s Third District, helping the Republican Party take control of the House with a slim majority. Six weeks after the […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Artificial Snow Job
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