Opinion
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THE YEAR-ROUNDER
No Place Like Home
Belonging is fundamental to everyone’s welfare
In the 1970s, I worked to protect nesting least terns on the back shore. In those days, we did not close beaches to vehicles, but we did post areas where […]
OPTING IN
A Game-Changer for the Housing Crisis
Towns should adopt the ‘seasonal communities’ designation now
Twenty-five years ago, families who made $60,000 a year could afford to buy a house here. Today, households making less than $300,000 a year struggle to find housing on the […]
OP-ART
Social Insecurity
MAURICE’S MASTER PLAN
Keeping Wellfleet Wellfleet
‘This place is precious,’ the town’s planning consultants were told
Last summer, I facilitated three focus groups about the future of Maurice’s Campground in Wellfleet. Our consultants organized them to allow the Maurice’s Campground Planning Committee to hear directly from […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Assault on Truth
At first it seemed that if this experiment in authoritarianism was going to break our hearts, we’d somehow stand firm. Now it’s pillaging our very minds. The National Science Foundation […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 24, 2025
Robert Panessiti, John Braden, Kathleen Nagle, Greg DeLory, Jim King, & Jackie Barchilon
Two Truro Petitions To the editor: Two petitioned articles on the May 3 Truro town meeting warrant require clarification because of the misleading rhetoric being spread in the community about […]
VIGNETTE
Bunnies
STEAMERS
Wellfleetopolis
CAMPGROUND ARGUMENTS
The Opponents of Maurice’s Are Ill-Informed
New housing will help mitigate destructive market forces
Most of the arguments for delaying, reducing, or halting the affordable housing project at Maurice’s Campground in Wellfleet are ill-informed or based on false information. First, it’s argued that the […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
More Than Just Two
“America is now divided between two opposing forces: woke revolutionaries and those who believe in the ideals of the American revolution.” As the New Yorker’s David Remnick points out, that’s […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 17, 2025
From Brian E. Boyle, Sharon Rule-Agger, John Shuman, Heather Pilchard, Zygmunt Plater, & Marian Roth
Solar Power in Truro To the editor: Truro is approaching a critical energy transition. Currently, about 25 percent of the town’s energy use comes from renewable electricity with 75 percent […]
VIGNETTE
Spring Follies
STEAMERS
The Whale is Right
KEEPING WATCH
We Are at War With Autocracy
The ‘Hands Off!’ movement is the beginning of resistance
A story that has long haunted me is called to mind by recent events. In 1614, Thomas Hunt, an English explorer and trader, was ordered by his captain, John Smith […]
