We have not one but two of our annual town meetings happening this Saturday, in Wellfleet and Truro, so fans of pure democracy will have to choose which one to […]
Editorials
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Joy Riding Into the Future
I was a little taken aback this week when I read Dennis Minsky’s column about picking a grave site. He’s right, of course, about taking care of these things ourselves […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The CDC’s Garbage Data
An Independent reader who has been closely following news of the Covid-19 pandemic pointed out a strange fact some weeks ago: the federal Centers for Disease Control’s Covid Data Tracker […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
From Crisis to Disaster
“It’s the saddest thing,” said Jennifer Cabral to Paul Sullivan, our reporter working on a story about people looking for reasonably priced places to live. Cabral is the moderator of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
They All Said Yes
A year ago, as we faced the lengthening shutdown and the disappearance of what we had thought would be our first big period of growth as a young newspaper, we […]
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
Tax, Build, or Say Goodbye
In September 2000, I landed in Aspen as the first snow of the year dusted the Rockies and the Cape Cod Times was finishing a series on the Cape’s affordable […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Cost of Misplaced Caution
“What the hell is going on in Wellfleet?” is what we’ve heard in recent weeks from various readers. It’s a good question. We’ve tried to look into the town’s financial […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Remembering Chuck Strum
Our friend Merrill sent us a kind note the other day about the things she enjoys in the Independent, including the obituaries. I’ve already written about why people shouldn’t have […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Righting the Township
At the April 13 meeting of the Wellfleet Select Board, after observing that Town Administrator Maria Broadbent’s summary of a financial audit was “very alarming,” the board’s chair, Michael DeVasto, […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
History Lessons
One of the Independent’s contributors whose work is especially enlightening is Amy Whorf McGuiggan, who writes the Graveyard Shift column. She never fails to come up with a good story […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Lawyer’s Feint
Ben Zehnder is mad at me. He’s well known as the go-to lawyer around here if you need a variance, or if you have gotten into a fight with a […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Art of Being Free
After we sent the paper off to the printer last week, I picked up the April issue of The Atlantic that somebody left on the kitchen counter. It was folded […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Madam, I’m Adam
Our once-a-month crossword, by the talented Sophia Maymudes, is very popular. And so, I have begun looking into the possibility of finding some new types of puzzles or word games […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
People, Not Numbers
My cousin David is a professional gambler. He fervently believes that every human problem can be expressed in mathematical terms, and thus solved with mathematical logic. He has been wildly […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Sunshine Week for the Press
Two months ago, I wrote about a flap we had with the new Wellfleet town administrator, Maria Broadbent. She had given one of our reporters a hard time about releasing […]
