Opinion
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SKETCHBOOK
Waiting
STEAMERS
Un-Real Estate
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Across the Digital Divide
A fuddy-duddy’s view of sexting
The saddest story to appear in these pages in many weeks was Jan. 28th’s “A ‘Sextortion’ Case Reveals Silent Crisis for Teens.” If you missed it, here is a brief […]
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
Good Business, Bad Faith
The Independent’s mission is to produce truth-seeking reporting on the Outer Cape. But we have another purpose that extends beyond the Orleans rotary: to help change what is happening to […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, March 4, 2021
From Chuck Leigh, Mark Gabriele, Deborah Mattingly and Ellyn Weiss
Spending the Pot Tax Bounty To the editor: The pot shop owners have been granted a license to coin money from the town, which they have clearly done very handsomely. […]
SKETCHBOOK
Winter Beach, Fresh Snowfall
BLACK AND BROWN HISTORY
Are We Like Other Towns?
Facing structural racism in a cultural oasis
A riot of culture spills forth from that hook at the end of the Cape. Provincetown is like no other place, and it seems incapable of containing itself. It expands, like […]
OP-ED
Why You Should Vote Yes on March 30
What the proposed Nauset High renovation will give us
The opposition to the proposed Nauset Regional High School renovation is relying on a confusing series of calculations based on questionable assumptions. Their main argument is that we can save […]
VIGNETTE
Around the Fire
STEAMERS
Unfunicular
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
These Data Are Ours
Our world is built on streams of data, beaming into headsets and printers and our ever-present phones. Twitter can predict what I will read; TikTok knows how to make me […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, February 25, 2021
From Michael Hager, Laura Logue Rood, and Leo Thibault
The Vaccine Lottery To the editor: Here are some points that Cape Cod residents may wish to convey to Gov. Charlie Baker and his Covid-19 advisers: 1. Cape Cod residents […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Ducks in a Snowstorm
Reflections on Annie Dillard’s ‘great hurrah’
PROVINCETOWN — Within the silence of the snowstorm, I walk the frozen beach, boot-crunch the only sound accompanying me. The muffled white air swirls and eddies. And then I hear […]
