Opinion
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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 […]
VIGNETTE
Walking With Dogs
CHOOSE YOUR OWN EPITAPH
Low Point on a Winter Mood Swing
TEACHABLE MOMENTS
What’s Wrong With Saying ‘All Lives Matter’
It’s a truth more often observed in the breach
One of the greatest joys for a teacher is when students encounter the magic of the tangent: the moment when an event, a question, or an opinion takes a carefully […]
AUTHORITY
Our National Intimidation Problem
A bromide is brandished to divert us from the real issue
Anne Needel’s great piece on this page last week [“The Kids Are Watching Us”] was a sight for sore eyes. Yes, adults need to model moral courage, for children and […]
