The momentum of this week culminates in a New Moon in Leo. Who doesn’t revel in extended moments of admiration and praise? Yet what becomes of such gaudy lauding when […]
Inner Voices
Origami Independent
Editor’s note: 75 years ago this week,the United States became the only country in the world to deploy nuclear weapons against civilians, dropping atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima(Aug.6, […]
OP-ED
We Must Act Locally on Climate
Building committee has wrongly nixed a net-zero emissions high school
Climate change is a clear and present danger to our community and to humanity as a whole. We are digging a hole for ourselves by continuing to produce greenhouse gas […]
SKETCHBOOK
Piping Plovers Hatched
TEACAKE'S TAKE
Seasonal Divinity
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Finding Your True North in a Tilting Cosmos
The only thing worth being is yourself
Our Sun signs, along with the rest of our charts, are imprinted at birth in that first moment of independent existence. We are free to begin the process of personality […]
COVID PORTRAIT #3
Back to the Future?
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
What Makes a Story Important?
Just one of the hard questions local journalists must ask
Look at what you are holding in your hands (or reading online). It is the creation of a group of people dedicated to bringing you the stories of the Outer […]
OP-ED
A Great Leader Has Left Us
But most Americans do not know who John Lewis was
Every day, some ridiculous or explosive or dangerous or miraculous thing happens with our teenagers. I wish I could sit them all down and tell them about John Lewis. A […]
STEAMERS
Gossip Superspreader
Gossip Superspreader by A. Crock
VIGNETTE
Mother Duckie
Mother Duckie by Daniel Dejean
SKETCHBOOK
John Lewis, Good Trouble, 1940-2020
John Lewis, Good Trouble, by Mark Adams
OP-ED
Racial Inequity in Our Back Yard
Truro’s Cloverleaf project and the costs of systemic exclusion
TRURO — In early June, many Outer Cape Codders joined in our shared reckoning over the crisis of white supremacy and racial inequity in this country. After the protests, many […]
VIGNETTE
Mockingbird
Vignette by Daniel Dejean
OP-ED
The Bias Against ‘Pit Bulls’
Headlines can hide the truth behind dog bites
PROVINCETOWN — The Independent’s July 9 front-page story on the effects of the coronavirus crisis on dogs, “Pandemic Is No Treat for the Four-Legged,” fell into a common and unfortunate […]
