Words matter. They can be used to hide the truth or to reveal it. The Provincetown Select Board gave us a fine example of the latter this week. One month […]
Opinion
From ed to op-ed and beyond.
Browse all Opinion stories below or dive into a topic:
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, March 16, 2023
From Morton Inger, Carey Morning, and R.J. Bardsley
‘It’s Hatred’ To the editor: Re “School Committee Did Not Know About Bullying Scandal,” March 9, page A8: A student is bullied and harassed because of her religion, and the […]
VIGNETTE
Checking the Weather
WATERCOLOR
Ninth Circle
RESTORATION QUESTIONS
Herring River Project Involves Losses and Risks
Questions remain about liability and unintended consequences
The Herring River Restoration Project, which has been in the planning stage for decades, has finally begun. The clearing of dead vegetation in the Duck Harbor basin is underway as […]
MISMANAGEMENT
What Wellfleet Deserved
How the select board should have reacted to the town’s accounting crisis
A while ago I swore that I would put Wellfleet’s financial troubles out of my mind and not write another letter to the Independent about this mess like the one […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Public Editor Again
Walking to our office in Whalers Wharf the other day, I passed by a busker outside Marine Specialties playing the guitar and singing an old Beatles song: “What would you […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, March 9, 2023
From Kathleen E. Bacon, Mike Rice, and Stan Bratskeir
A Humanitarian Crisis To the editor: I applaud K.C. Myers for her heartfelt editorial column “Held Hostage by Slumlords” [March 2, page A2]. She used a word in the second-to-last […]
VIGNETTE
Snowman
STEAMERS
The Wildlife of Legend
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S WEEK
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Robert, the Down East Philosopher
‘We are born into a narrative,’ says a visiting dissident
Most of the philosophers I have ever met have been from Maine. I am not sure why, but they seem to crank them out up there. Perhaps it is their […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Held Hostage by Slumlords
The Truro Health Dept. threatened in 2019 to close down the Truro Motor Inn where 50 people, including several children, were living in overcrowded motel rooms. Electric service designed for […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, March 2, 2023
From Peggy G.K. Sovek and Frank Barringer
Those Big Cats To the editor: The story “Wellfleet Discovers — and Freezes — Its First Bobcat” by Sam Pollak (Feb. 23, page A4) prompts me to retell my “Pamet […]
