A Carnival Thief To the editor: For decades, I visited Provincetown as a tourist. I felt that P’town was a very special place, almost magical. Everybody seemed nice. People from […]
Letters to the Editor
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 25, 2022
From Eric Chivian, M.D., Dorothy M. Smith, Stephen Kinzer, James E. King, and Sarah Hill
Glyphosate and Cancer To the editor: Re “Killing Weeds With Herbicides Is ‘Last Resort’ ” [Aug. 18, front page]: There is no question that the reed grass Phragmites australis is […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 18, 2022
From Elizabeth Gawron, Lee Chase, Ronald A. Gabel, Dan Wolf, and Betsy Smith
A Vote for Peake To the editor: I was devastated but not shocked when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. We saw it coming as soon as the last […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 11, 2022
From Mark Gabriele, Jim Vogel, Michael Gaucher, Kevin Grunwald, and Kathy Miller
Whelan’s Immigration Stance To the editor: In your Aug. 4 article about the upcoming sheriff’s election and our county’s 287(g) agreement [“Fate of County’s ICE Pact May Depend on Voters,” […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 4, 2022
From Anne Miller, Brian O’Malley & Andrea M. Sawyer, Brian Eastman, and David Agger
Hospital Ethics To the editor: Thank you for your excellent articles on the lack of access to abortion care on Cape Cod, in one of the remaining states that supposedly […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 21, 2022
From Laura Lubetsky, Ronald A. Gabel, M.D., Nicola Moore, M.D., Wil Sullivan, and Alice Brainard
For a Women’s Health Center To the editor: The Independent’s excellent coverage of the availability of abortion and other pregnancy-related health care on the Cape has been revelatory, upending reasonable […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 14, 2022
From Steven Kopits, Bob Nee, and James McAuliffe
For a Cycling Paradise To the editor: As noted in last week’s Independent, biking from Wellfleet to Provincetown has become more problematic, as the Old County Road bridge south of Mill Pond Road in […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 7, 2022
From Karen Strauss, Mike Rice, and Tim Morse
The Hypocrisy of the Court To the editor: Like many people, I hold in contempt the gang of six on the Supreme Court who make rulings based on their political […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 30, 2022
From Stephen Greenberg and James Hirshberg
A House Divided To the editor: Historians will look back on the week of June 19, 2022 as the time that this country took a major step towards entering MAGA […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 23, 2022
From Lori Rutter and Gene Toland
Incivility in Wellfleet To the editor: When we bought our home in Wellfleet 11 years ago, we were excited to be part of this community full of nature, art, and […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 16, 2022
From David Holmstrom, Jim Cornell, John Wolf, James Vesper, Raffaello LaMantia, Joan Zukas, Martin Elvis, and Margaret Burdick
‘There’s No Free Lunch’ To the editor: Voters at Wellfleet’s town meeting on Saturday overwhelmingly approved articles calling for an operating override and debt exclusions, but Wellfleet still needs those […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 9, 2022
From Heidi Jon Schmidt and Frank Barringer
In Memory of the Children To the editor: Thank you for the articles on guns [June 2, pages A1 and A10] that put the full ghastly story together and link […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 2, 2022
From Gordon Peabody, Jim Bisceglia, Mike Rice, and Dan Katz
Life at the Edge To the editor: Living at the edge of the Earth, we have already lost more than our fair share of fishermen to the sea. The unexpected […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, May 26, 2022
From Jeff Tash, John A. Wolf, Buddy Perkel, Frank Dunau, and Mike Greer
‘There Was No Fraud’ To the editor: Ed Miller in his May 19 Letter From the Editor says Wellfleet’s books don’t add up. He thinks the town ought to pay […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, May 19, 2022
From Terry Gallagher, Madeleine Entel, Marcia Bromley, Sandra Eisenstein, and L. Michael Hager
Covid Is Not Gone To the editor: The Covid-19 pandemic is still very much with us [“Cape Cod Has Entered Its 6th Covid Wave,” May 12, front page]. Now is […]
