Reviving the Seashore Advisory Commission To the editor: Re “Amid Protests, Dune Shacks Eyed by Bidders,” June 22, front page: The maelstrom swirling around the new dune-shack leasing program bespeaks […]
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PORTRAIT
Truth Speaks
VIGNETTE
Midsummer
KEEPING WATCH
Holtec Threatens a Common, Open-Access Resource
Reflections of a retired English teacher
We Americans, whether as individual consumers, small-business owners, or CEOs of large corporations, are locked in a free market system that rewards the exploitation of a wide swath of open-access […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Hero of the Papers
Daniel Ellsberg died last Friday at age 92 after having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February. His extraordinary life had a lasting influence on many people, including me. When […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 22, 2023
From Liam McElhone, Al Gentle, Ken Field, Joan Holt, Robert Panessiti, Kim Kettler, and Barbara Hill
‘Find the Right Target’ To the editor: Thanks to the Provincetown Independent for covering recent efforts to terminate the contract of Truro Town Manager Darrin Tangeman [“A Campaign Is Waged […]
VIGNETTE
Out of Shape
STEAMERS
Par-King
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
To Choose to Tattoo
Discovering the reasons why people decide to decorate their skin
The ungainly spider crab out on our tidal flats decorates its carapace with bits of seaweed, the better to camouflage itself and enhance its role as an ambush predator. Several […]
TAKING BACK CHILDHOOD
Children’s Play in Violent Times
It’s not a stretch to connect the loss of play with the rise in mass shootings
With more than one mass shooting per day since the start of 2023, many of us are asking what causes this extreme violence, most of it perpetrated by young people. […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Resortification
Truro has been preoccupied in the past week by a campaign to persuade the select board to get rid of Town Manager Darrin Tangeman (see story on front page). As […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 15, 2023
From Amy Whorf McGuiggan
Racism and the Roach Family To the editor: Re “Private Family Burial Plot Sold With Developable Lot” [June 1, front page]: There is no evidence whatsoever to support the divisive […]
VIGNETTE
Feeling the Breeze
STEAMERS
Lib-Hard
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
The Menstrual Minstrel Visits Scotland
Jay Critchley and Lady Tampon Liberty ask, ‘Have we lost our desire for eternity?’
Scotland was the first country in the world to mandate the free provision of period products, and so it was a most fitting place for the second annual conference of […]
