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SUGGESTION BOX.
Suggestion Box by Mary DeAngelis
EDITORIAL
Making Your Vote Count in Tuesday’s Primary
An aura of futility surrounds the presidential primary in Massachusetts this Tuesday, March 3. On the Democratic side, there’s a feeling that no matter who ultimately wins the primary, this […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, February 27, 2020
From Wesley Slate Jr., Mark Gabriele, and Jeffrey Stefani
Voting Security To the editor: As the recently retired Beverly city clerk, subscriber to the Independent, and part-time resident of Provincetown, I was quite interested in your Feb. 13 letter […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, February 20, 2020
From Laurie Veninger, Dan Stephens, and Irene Daitch
An Antidote for Despair To the editor: Most of us know that America is deeply divided. We’ve seen it in our families and communities. It is not just the chasm […]
reporter's notebook
Cyr Comes Out
Getting insurance coverage for mental health services is difficult. So is talking about mental illness. That is why state Senator Julian Cyr, a Democrat from Truro, and other legislators are […]
STEAMERS
When The Wild Doesn’t Call
NATURA VIVA
Witch Hazel
MILLION-YEAR PICNIC
Watching a Red Supergiant Die
One of Orion’s stars could blow any time now, or in 100,000 years
Betelgeuse — the star with the funny name. Maybe you know it from the 1988 movie Beetlejuice, about the eponymous poltergeist-for-hire. Or maybe you’ve heard the name in the news […]
the year-rounder
‘How Slight a Shelter’
What would Thoreau have made of 2020 Cape Cod?
Henry David Thoreau’s residency, starting in 1845, in a 10-by-15-foot shack next to Walden Pond for two years, two months, and two days is generally considered by scholars as a […]
Summer of '43
Little Joe Gould Arrives in Truro
A child’s life becomes less normal when a bohemian comes to town
little joe gould has lost his teeth and doesn’t know where to find them(and found a secondhand set which click)little gould used to amputate his appetite with bad brittle candy […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
So Much to Love, So Little Time
“Teacake’s Take on Romance” by Ellen LeBow
VIGNETTE
Amphibian Love
Vignette by Daniel Dejean
LOOKING BACKWARD
The Black Tiger: Lessons From the History of the Drug Trade
The laws of economics suggest that the cannabis bubble may burst
Edmund Burke, among others, warned that those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. So a bit of history is in order in these times when many people […]
METAPHYSICS
The Short-Lived Loves of Local Squid
While males get distracted, females sneak in multiple mates
Squid appeared maybe 700 million years ago. They predate everything we think of as ancient — sharks, fish, and even trees. But they don’t predate sex. That invention happened about […]
