Five weeks ago, we published a story with the headline “Truro and Wellfleet Will Fail to Meet Their Housing Goals.” It summarized the four Outer Cape towns’ affordable housing production […]
Editorials
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Content Creation
I’m glad E.B. White is dead. The New Yorker staff writer and author of Charlotte’s Web famously wrote an impassioned warning against sponsored content in 1976. I wouldn’t want him […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Silver Lining
Just when I find myself in an especially bad mood — because I forgot to renew the car registration and ended up with the car towed, or my computer somehow […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Holding On to Town Centers
“Route 6 is horrible,” says Art Autorino, chair of the Eastham Select Board, in a report in this issue by Cam Blair. We’ve probably all had that same thought, while […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Silence for the Trees
One of the strange things about being an editor in a small community is that, as the years go by, the news seems to repeat itself. Back in 2016, Russell […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
On Turning Two
With this issue of the Independent, we begin Volume 3, having published two full years of weekly editions. It seems only right to pause and give you a report on […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Who’s in the ‘Workforce’?
I’ve noticed that, as the Outer Cape’s quest for housing alternatives intensifies, the term “affordable housing” seems to be muted. Insofar as it indicates that we have people in need […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Radically Rural
As I write this week’s column, two of the Independent’s staff members are on their way to Keene, N.H. to take part in the fourth annual Radically Rural Summit. Paul […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Bad at Math
Ambrose Bierce’s 1911 Devil’s Dictionary defines a lottery as “a tax on people who are bad at math.” That still sounds right. The chances of winning the Mega Millions jackpot, […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
In It Together?
Twenty years ago this week, time stopped as we watched the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. For weeks, we could think of little else but the […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Labor Day Reality
It’s almost Labor Day weekend, that giant exhalation that signals what is usually the most dramatic transformation of the year here. The last week of August is already quieter, calmer […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Harvey County Now
One of the goals we set for ourselves when we launched the Independent was to keep track of and regularly report on the state of local newspapers. We had talked […]
FROM THE FELLOWS
Take This Personally
Tomorrow, after a visit to the press where the Independent is printed, our four college fellows will leave their summer assignments behind. We asked them for short reflections on their […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Apples and Shellfish
Two years ago, at its 2019 annual town meeting, Wellfleet bought 254 acres of tidal flats and salt marsh from the HDYLTA (How Do You Like Them Apples) Realty Trust […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Covid Lies
A headline in Monday’s New York Times Business section jumped off the page at us: “Local News Aids Spread of Virus Misinformation.” Reporters Sheera Frenkel and Tiffany Hsu wrote that […]
