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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Words Matter
The news gets worse. This week the president announced that he was seizing control of the Washington, D.C. police force “to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 14, 2025
From Ted Thomas, Paula Bruns, Christine Nolder, Nicole Barnum, Julie S. Smith, Barbara Leedom, Debra Raymond, and Jim King
What Great Leaders Do To the editor: Re Carl Goveia’s “Stop the Bashing” letter [July 24, page A2]: Donald Trump will not go down as a great president. He is […]
VIGNETTE
On Special
STEAMERS
RIP CPB*
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Searching for the Me Myself
A struggle to put the world in perspective
I am sitting on my deck in the early hours of a new day, isolated from the world, including — believe it or not — you, dear reader. I am […]
DATE AND TIME
They Talk, Think, and Dream Fish
From the Aug. 10, 1919 issue of the Boston Daily Globe, selected and edited by Kaimi Rose Lum So much for the excitement of war days in Provincetown. Now for […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Controlling the News
One of the executive orders signed by Donald Trump on Jan. 20, 2025 changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America.” That bit of foolishness at […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 7, 2025
From Mia Baumgarten, Michael Dru Kelley, & Michael DeVasto
Public Access Is Alive To the editor: Reports of the demise of public access television, as in your July 24 article “Newscasts Seek New Home After Lower Cape TV Layoffs” […]
VIGNETTE
Tip Jar
STEAMERS
Concessions
ON THE FLATS
Out of the Mud
A Pamet marsh ‘rescue’ leads to memories of fishing and baseball heroics
I was trying to take a nap, but I couldn’t ignore the cursing I heard below our rented cottage on the Pamet River marsh. I got up, looked out the […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Surviving a Siege
Last week we got word that Frank Tangherlini, who lives in San Diego, was visiting family in Wellfleet. He’s 101 — one of the few remaining U.S. Army veterans who […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 31, 2025
From Rachel White, Kiki Herold, Felicity Gage, Harriet Korim, Dick Mains, Cathy Nagorski, & Raffaello LaMantia
The Value of In-Person Learning To the editor: Boston University’s decision to discontinue its in-person master of social work program on Cape Cod will be felt especially on the Outer […]
