As this most anxiety-provoking presidential election campaign comes to a climax, we are here at our desks with our heads down, working against the weekly deadline on stories about affordable […]
Editorials
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Harris for President
“Why We Don’t Endorse” was the title of a column I wrote in April 2023 explaining why the Independent was not endorsing any candidates in town elections that year. “We […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Misinformation for Voters
I like a good argument. That’s been true ever since I was a member of the debating club at Teaneck High School. We faced off against teams from other schools […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Stormy Weather
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” sang Bob Dylan in 1965. Now, the weathermen are warning us about winds that would have been unimaginable […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Special Delivery
This week’s issue of the Independent includes our annual statement of ownership, management, and circulation (see page A19), which the U.S. Postal Service requires of all periodicals that are delivered […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Unsponsored Content
Scroll down the Boston Globe’s homepage and you’ll come to a lineup of stories under the heading “From Our Partners.” They have headlines like “You can afford that big European […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Prize in Providence
With this issue of the Independent, we complete Volume 5, our fifth full year of weekly publication — 261 issues in all. All those deadlines have kept us tightly bound […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Honor at the End
A couple of weeks ago a reader wrote to say that he was “uplifted” by an obituary we had published. He said he would like to read more about the […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Diagraming for Democracy
The statements coming from the Republican candidate for president are setting many people’s nerves on edge. Our correspondent Mike Rice gives one example this week of an absurd accusation, repeated […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
An Endangered Landscape
I hope that readers have been noticing the collection of 34 essays by columnist Kai Potter that we published last month. His book is called Noticing, something that Kai does […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Picking a Funny Bone
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s suddenly ubiquitous word for the Republican ticket — “weird” — “is solidly Nebraskan and from the school of Carson,” writes Ian Frazier in the New York […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Secrecy and Censorship
In her July rulings that the Wellfleet Select Board had violated the Open Meeting Law, Assistant Attorney General Carrie Benedon wrote that the discussion at the board’s June 27, 2023 […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Trafficking in the Unexpected
After writing about artists here for two years, I was relieved to find myself hustling through the mist that hung over Commercial Street to PAAM a couple of weeks ago […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Young Writers Needed
Last week was Family Week in Provincetown, and Commercial Street was packed with people pushing strollers and hundreds of kids of every age and disposition. It’s an unusual and welcome […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Private Equity Doesn’t Care
Last week’s article by Jack Styler on the substandard care at the nursing home at Seashore Point in Provincetown, now formally called AdviniaCare at Provincetown, was one of the more […]