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STEAMERS
Market Rate
SPEECHES
Keeping the Fascists Away
In Wellfleet, Congressman Raskin decries violations of the Constitution and research cuts
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland’s Eighth Congressional District, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told a standing-room-only crowd at Wellfleet Preservation Hall on July 11 not to give […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Opposite of Fear
At his first inaugural on March 4, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said this: “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 17, 2025
From John Portnoy, Berta Walker, Joan Baker, Shirley Spatz, Jack Sparacino, Frederick B. Goldsmith, & Mike Rice
Phragmites Redux To the editor: Ronald Gabel’s letter titled “Phragmites vs. Spartina” [July 10, page A2] misquotes a sentence in the cited publication, Phragmites: Considerations for Management in the Critical […]
VIGNETTE
Superbird
STEAMERS
Age of the Scooter
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Seawall Revisited
Living on borrowed time
It has been two years since I discovered David Read’s painting on a seawall in the East End of town (“Painting on the Seawall,” June 29, 2023). That amounts to […]
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Fourth of July Contradictions
Fearing for the future but loving a big, beautiful parade
On the evening of July 3, I and 69 million other Americans who get Social Security benefits received an email “celebrating the passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill, a […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Rewriting History
A March 27 pronouncement titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” ordered the secretary of the interior to take action to ensure that public properties “do not contain descriptions, […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 10, 2025
From Erin Splaine, Ronald A. Gabel, & Annette Andruss
Safety in Restrooms To the editor: Our trans siblings have experienced violence and a lack of safety in our public restrooms. They have asked to be seen, heard, included, and […]
PLANNING DEPT.
Provincetown Sets a Long List of Goals
Alongside housing and flooding are new efforts on road safety and health
PROVINCETOWN — Every year in May, after town meeting and the annual town election, the select board scores the town manager’s progress and writes a new set of “goals and […]
