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Editorials
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 […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Asleep at the Tweet
When Twitter launched in social media’s early days (it was 2006 when Jack Dorsey sent out the first tweet) most journalists scoffed at the idea of living by 140-character soundbites. […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Elections Under Threat
I received my official 2024 vote by mail application today from the Mass. Elections Division, and it reminded me of the systems, checks, and balances that make sure our elections […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Writers’ Block
We started this newspaper with plans focused on the future — one where small-town newspapers thrived again. But some of the things we hoped for were old-fashioned. We wanted people […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Crime Compounded
It’s hard for me to understand those people who believe there is a “deep state” of corrupt government officials determined to take away our rights. The fabrications and fantasies of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Obfuscation Events
There are certain words that pop up frequently in news stories and set off alarms in an editor’s brain. Several of them appeared in our report last week about an […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Lighthouses and Windmills
When my friend Elizabeth came to visit me in Wellfleet for a weekend, one of the things she wanted to see was a “real” Cape Cod lighthouse. We drove over […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Something From Nothing
Sometimes it feels as if being a journalist consists mostly of waiting for return phone calls from people who are never going to call you back. The other day I […]