The Sheriff’s Attitude To the editor: Many thanks to K.C. Myers for her article “Mental Illness and Addiction at Heart of Sheriff Race” [Sept. 29, front page]. She makes clear […]
Letters to the Editor
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Oct. 6, 2022
From Irving Puffer, Carol Nickerson, Luther Bumps, Harriet Korim, David Bastien, and Kathy Greeley
In Defense of A.R.C. To the editor: I want to add something to the history of Wellfleet’s relationship with A.R.C. recounted in your article “A Bad Year for Shellfish Seed […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Sept. 29, 2022
From Tobin Storer, Bob Wallace, Karen Friedman, Dan Katz, Arvin Nundloll, and Jerry Guerra
For the Forfeit of A.R.C.’s License To the editor: I support the town’s decision to ask the Aquacultural Research Corp. (A.R.C.) to forfeit its grant in Wellfleet Harbor (as reported […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Sept. 22, 2022
From Ellyn Weiss, Bonnie Nuendel, Joanna Stevens, and David Agger
Marketing Truro To the editor: The Sept. 8 issue of the Independent included the news that Truro has created a new position for a “communications and marketing coordinator” [“A New […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Sept. 15, 2022
From Stephen Greenberg and Thomas Schwarz
‘A Serious Disconnect’ To the editor: At the last two Wellfleet town meetings, voters overwhelmingly approved measures to resolve the town’s financial problems and alleviate the crisis in affordable housing, […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Sept. 8, 2022
From Joan Zukas, Mike Rice, Carl Sussman, Brendan Noonan, and Walt Winnowski
A Vision of Wellfleet To the editor: I encourage Wellfleet voters to take a few moments before town meeting (this Saturday, Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. at the elementary school […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Sept. 1, 2022
From Brian Morris, M.D, Max Lewis, Myra Slotnick, and Steve Roderick
A Carnival Thief To the editor: For decades, I visited Provincetown as a tourist. I felt that P’town was a very special place, almost magical. Everybody seemed nice. People from […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 25, 2022
From Eric Chivian, M.D., Dorothy M. Smith, Stephen Kinzer, James E. King, and Sarah Hill
Glyphosate and Cancer To the editor: Re “Killing Weeds With Herbicides Is ‘Last Resort’ ” [Aug. 18, front page]: There is no question that the reed grass Phragmites australis is […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 18, 2022
From Elizabeth Gawron, Lee Chase, Ronald A. Gabel, Dan Wolf, and Betsy Smith
A Vote for Peake To the editor: I was devastated but not shocked when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. We saw it coming as soon as the last […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 11, 2022
From Mark Gabriele, Jim Vogel, Michael Gaucher, Kevin Grunwald, and Kathy Miller
Whelan’s Immigration Stance To the editor: In your Aug. 4 article about the upcoming sheriff’s election and our county’s 287(g) agreement [“Fate of County’s ICE Pact May Depend on Voters,” […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 4, 2022
From Anne Miller, Brian O’Malley & Andrea M. Sawyer, Brian Eastman, and David Agger
Hospital Ethics To the editor: Thank you for your excellent articles on the lack of access to abortion care on Cape Cod, in one of the remaining states that supposedly […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 21, 2022
From Laura Lubetsky, Ronald A. Gabel, M.D., Nicola Moore, M.D., Wil Sullivan, and Alice Brainard
For a Women’s Health Center To the editor: The Independent’s excellent coverage of the availability of abortion and other pregnancy-related health care on the Cape has been revelatory, upending reasonable […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 14, 2022
From Steven Kopits, Bob Nee, and James McAuliffe
For a Cycling Paradise To the editor: As noted in last week’s Independent, biking from Wellfleet to Provincetown has become more problematic, as the Old County Road bridge south of Mill Pond Road in […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 7, 2022
From Karen Strauss, Mike Rice, and Tim Morse
The Hypocrisy of the Court To the editor: Like many people, I hold in contempt the gang of six on the Supreme Court who make rulings based on their political […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 30, 2022
From Stephen Greenberg and James Hirshberg
A House Divided To the editor: Historians will look back on the week of June 19, 2022 as the time that this country took a major step towards entering MAGA […]
