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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 8, 2024
From Joe Scanlan, Burt Grossman, Mike Rice, Laura Ludwig, and Chuck Madansky
Leasing to Locals To the editor: I was very pleased to read about Provincetown’s “Lease to Locals” program [“Provincetown Aims to Lure Landlords Into Year-Round Rental Market,” Aug. 1, page […]
VIGNETTE
Love at First Sign
STEAMERS
Impression Speed Boat
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Recyclable Life Force: An Unformed Idea
What is it like to be a slug or a vulture?
Walking on the East End beach at low tide with my 11-year old granddaughter, I pointed out the rivulets of groundwater streaming onto the flats. All the water in the […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Private Equity Doesn’t Care
Last week’s article by Jack Styler on the substandard care at the nursing home at Seashore Point in Provincetown, now formally called AdviniaCare at Provincetown, was one of the more […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 1, 2024
From Suzanne Ryan-Ishkanian, Jan Kubiac, Alan J. Roth, Rob Taylor, and Michael Spielman
The Latest Resignations To the editor: Re “Tensions Are Bared by Rash of Resignations” [July 25, front page]: Thanks for covering the latest episode in Wellfleet’s ongoing problem holding onto […]
VIGNETTE
Shark Sightings
STEAMERS
President’s Town
SOCIAL CAPITALISM
Discontent Comes to the Outer Cape
A pessimist asks why we still hate us
In the summer of 2008, I published a quickly forgotten book titled Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium. It was not optimistic. But it came out […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Asleep at the Tweet
When Twitter launched in social media’s early days (it was 2006 when Jack Dorsey sent out the first tweet) most journalists scoffed at the idea of living by 140-character soundbites. […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 25, 2024
From Frank Korahais, Anthony Garrett, Dennis O’Brien, Harry Irwin, Mary Bergman, and Shawn Fiedler
Part-Timers and Voters To the editor: Your July 18 article “Truro Now Has Two Part-Time Residents Groups” [page A9] was factually in error about me in serious and harmful ways. […]
