Do we spend too much time talking about the Outer Cape’s shortage of reasonably priced housing? Some people we know think so, including friends in Truro who tell us that […]
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, February 8, 2024
From John C. Marksbury, Farrukh Najmi, Tom Mueller, and Ronald A. Gabel, M.D.
Receivership: An Important Tool To the editor: The Independent’s Jan. 25 edition spoke volumes about the ironies of our Outer Cape housing crisis. A once grand, historic house rots in […]
VIGNETTE
Underwater Playground
STEAMERS
Co-Hog Day
ELECTION 2024
The Choice Facing Peake’s Successor
Is it better to be represented by an insider in a flawed system?
The retirement of our state representative, Sarah Peake, after nine terms on Beacon Hill marks a generational change that may affect the Outer Cape in unexpected ways. It raises an […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Google Chooses Evil
I use Google probably a hundred times a day, searching the internet as I check facts. I’ve been feeling a looming wariness as I watch the company’s downshift into AI, […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, February 1, 2024
From Bob Jones, Lisbeth Wiley Chapman, Myra Slotnick, Mitchell Baker, Mary Moniz, and Eric Winslow
Peace Valley Memories To the editor: The report by Christine Legere on the old house at 177 Peace Valley Road in Wellfleet [“A Once Grand Property, Now Condemned, May Finally […]
VIGNETTE
Underdressed
STEAMERS
Contracting Time
IOWA DISPATCH
Face to Face With a Nonvoter
A reporter considers what makes a caucus bystander tick
I’m not sure exactly what I expected from my first time covering the Iowa caucuses. As a nerdy middle-schooler growing up in the D.C. suburbs, I had read some American […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
In Pursuit of the Hearty Garlic
The market and the community, with and without pickles
The shelves and coolers at Stop & Shop have a plethora of pickles. There are dill pickles aplenty: hot dill, kosher dill, hamburger dill, and baby dill. There are half […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Dearth of Letters
Except for one deliciously pithy communication from Richard Spada, we had a dearth of letters to the editor this week. I don’t understand this, because last week’s issue of the […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, January 25, 2024
From Richard Spada
A Smell in Truro To the editor: As a founding member of a community church in Berkeley, Calif. in the year 2000 and a leader on the board of directors […]
