Walking to our office in Whalers Wharf the other day, I passed by a busker outside Marine Specialties playing the guitar and singing an old Beatles song: “What would you […]
Editorials
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Held Hostage by Slumlords
The Truro Health Dept. threatened in 2019 to close down the Truro Motor Inn where 50 people, including several children, were living in overcrowded motel rooms. Electric service designed for […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
February Scars
A lot of us live on Outer Cape Cod because someone drew us here. My sister, Harriet Miller, was the one who got us to Wellfleet. She served on the […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Black Lives Matter
The indispensable historian Heather Cox Richardson wrote this week in her “Letters From an American” about the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Making Schools Safer
“By the early years of the twenty-first century, police had become a normal presence in sites ranging from mental health agencies to hospital emergency rooms to schools to welfare offices,” […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Small-Town Comrades
Unexpected connections here often take the form of discovering who is related to whom — that the furniture maker who lives down the road is the cousin of the guy […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Public’s Editor
“All authority implies an extreme reluctance to admit past error,” wrote British novelist Patrick O’Brian in The Letter of Marque. O’Brian was writing about the Royal Navy, but the truth […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Dire Demographics
Is the Outer Cape a good place for children to grow up? I’ve always thought so. The natural beauty that has inspired so many artists and writers — the sea, […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Affliction and Comfort
“The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” This crack is attributed to Mr. Dooley, a dyspeptic Irish bartender who was the invention of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Drama in the Back Pages
Are you the kind who reads the paper cover to cover? I’m thinking of the back of Section B of the Independent, where you will find the legal notices in […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Venture Journalism
George Santos was elected to Congress last month from New York’s Third District, helping the Republican Party take control of the House with a slim majority. Six weeks after the […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Artificial Snow Job
“Hi there! I’m writing to let you know about an incredible new AI tool that can help with various tasks related to website copywriting and SEO. It’s been used by […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Making Good on Housing
I got to report some good news this week: eight years of sustained effort, including major support from the state, have brought the Cloverleaf project in Truro to fruition. A […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Staying in the Fight
In last week’s Independent, Paul Benson reported on the new Provincetown drop-in center of the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod and the long-term battle against sexually transmitted infections and […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Shop With Empathy
For many years, Provincetown has been our favorite place for Christmas shopping. The stores are stylishly stocked, it’s never crowded, the summer prices have come down, and talking with the […]