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 […]

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 […]

When I heard that Provincetown was hosting an “active shooter attack prevention and preparedness” training session, my initial reaction was skepticism. The town’s press release said, “This crucial training event […]

I taught writing to college freshmen back in the 1980s, when the internet was young. As a tool for doing research, the new technology seemed almost magically powerful and seductive. […]

There is so much to fear. Hard-won progress in civil rights, reproductive rights, and gender equality has rapidly eroded; we are beyond the overture of a climate catastrophe; war and […]

We started this newspaper in 2019 because we saw journalism dying here. The Provincetown Banner and the Cape Codder, once robust, were struggling. Word was readers and advertisers didn’t care […]

Jack Styler is a young writer who will be joining our newsroom as a staff reporter next month. He’s a Midwesterner; he graduated from the University of Wisconsin two years […]

In a front-page story in last week’s Independent, Paul Benson took a look at some of the supposed facts that have surfaced in talk about affordable housing on the Outer […]

Is writing a dying art? Sometimes I wonder. Years ago, I taught expository writing to freshmen at a college where many of the students were intensely ambitious. The ones who […]

Last week the Boston Globe reported “a rare bit of good news on the housing front — at least for vacationers” on Cape Cod: “renting at a reasonable rate might […]

Two weeks ago, page 3 of the Independent was our annual April Fool’s fake front page. We’ve done this for five years, and you might think that readers would have […]

What is it like to live on Outer Cape Cod and have a new baby? The feeling of isolation can be overwhelming, Becky Fischer told Independent reporter Olivia Oldham in […]

When I heard last Friday that Buddy Perkel had died, my heart sank. I thought about the day we first met, nearly 30 years ago. Teresa and I had just […]

I received a fine letter this week from Jeff Havlick, a subscriber in Eastham. He enclosed a clipping from the Caledonian Record, the local newspaper in St. Johnsbury, Vt., in […]