Edward Miller

Two weeks ago, I wrote about police raids at the weekly Marion County Record in Kansas and the home of its editor. Since then, those events have generated a remarkable […]

We’ve made it to the downhill side of August, and the people who keep the tourism economy of Outer Cape Cod afloat are looking wearily at the calendar, dreaming of […]

Many readers have sent us articles about what happened in Marion, Kansas, population 1,922, last Friday morning. The office of the Marion County Record, a weekly newspaper founded in 1869, […]

The Outer Cape has its weeks. Carnival is the big one up next. In the Independent, it is apparently barbecue week: Oliver Egger and Elias Schisgall report from the annual […]

A thoughtful letter to the editor from Heidi Jon Schmidt this week questions the Independent’s coverage of First Lady Jill Biden’s coming to town to raise money for the president’s […]

The letters to the editor are one of my favorite things about running a newspaper even though they sometimes give me a giant headache. We are lucky to hear so […]

In last week’s Independent, staff reporter Sam Pollak wrote the latest sickening chapter in the story of slumlords David and Carolyn Delgizzi of Weston and their tenants at the Truro […]

Many questions remain about what happened on June 18 at the East End basketball court in Provincetown, when three police officers responded to a report of a kid with a […]

In the past week, the wider world has noticed that the Park Service is evicting Sal Del Deo from the dune shack that has been his refuge for 77 years. […]

Daniel Ellsberg died last Friday at age 92 after having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February. His extraordinary life had a lasting influence on many people, including me. When […]

Truro has been preoccupied in the past week by a campaign to persuade the select board to get rid of Town Manager Darrin Tangeman (see story on front page). As […]

As the town gears up for summer, the lineup of entertainment on offer includes a lively array of drag shows — a time-honored Provincetown tradition. But the atmosphere surrounding drag […]

Dennis Minsky is mourning the impending loss of Provincetown’s beech trees in his column this week. In their case, a tiny nematode seems to be the cause. Scientists don’t yet […]

 No one will be surprised to hear that as a kid I was a newspaper junkie. I delivered papers in the New York suburbs: the Times and the Herald Tribune, […]