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 […]
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 29, 2024
From James E. King, John Dillon, Carol Jules, & Rick Treanor
Quick Thinking To the editor: This letter is to thank and commend the three young sailors, JJ Blake, Andrew Shope, and Kevin Woznac, as well as Assistant Harbormaster Jesse Boyd […]
VIGNETTE
Shark Attack
STEAMERS
Darkness Heights
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 […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 22, 2024
From Debbie Canyock, Kenneth Sutton, Michael Gaucher, Mike Shannon, Kathleen E. Bacon, Karen Murphy, and Eliza Miller, M.D.
Supporting Grandparents To the editor: The article on grandparenting on the front page of your Aug. 15 issue [“Grandparents Care for More Than 10% of Cape Children”] was eye-opening. I […]
VIGNETTE
Cutting Edge
STEAMERS
Modern Life Saver
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Too Late for Tea?
Provincetown is more than a gay resort, Hannah
As if Provincetown needed any promotion going into August, the New Yorker magazine published a short profile of the town by Hannah Goldfield, titled “Beach Boys,” in its July 29 […]
NURSING HOME REFORM
A Profit-Driven Health-Care System Is the Problem
Why not find a way to pay frontline workers more?
I had just returned from a visit with my sister, who has lived at the Seashore Point Wellness Center in Provincetown since 2018, when I saw the Independent’s July 25 […]
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 […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 15, 2024
From Jacqueline W. Beebe and Ken Silvia
Eastham’s Master Plan To the editor: Re “In Eastham, Housing Plan Must Wait Until 2035” [Aug. 1, page A7]: This article did not accurately reflect the presentation given to the […]
VIGNETTE
Big Doings
STEAMERS
P’Town Gold
RULES FOR LIVING
Be Kind, Say Thank You, and Hold the Door, Please
An antidote for road rage and rudeness, which seem worse than ever
When I moved here as a kid a million years ago — OK, not a million, but it was a different century — it was a very different Cape Cod. […]