The development of offshore wind farms as a solution to our desperate need for renewable energy has become a hot topic, and endangered whales have gotten caught up in it. […]
Opinion
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Facing Our History
Our friend and mentor Robert Kuttner wrote this week in the American Prospect about the death on March 28 of Margot Stern Strom, the Brookline teacher who in 1975 created […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 6, 2023
From Georg Deyab, Eileen Hickey, Liam McElhone, and Tom Burns
‘We Are All in Trouble’ To the editor: Re “Provincetown Fights Back Against Anti-Drag Laws” [March 30, front page]: Whether it is bingo, karaoke, a fundraiser, or a regular show, […]
VIGNETTE
Quick Change Artist
STEAMERS
A Better Lobster Trap
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Tide Line Mystery
On being confronted with a simple, inexplicable occurrence.
We all live our lives where the sea meets the land, and it does so every day, twice a day. This meeting is foreordained — it is an encroachment really […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Luddite Party
Writing on the editorial page of the New York Times on Monday this week, three humanist technology researchers delivered this prediction: artificial intelligence (A.I.) is probably going to destroy humanity […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, March 30, 2023
From Stephen Greenberg, Buddy Perkel, Bruce Monteith, and Michael Fee
Wellfleet’s Troubles To the editor: Having read in the Independent about Wellfleet’s 2021 audit, Buddy Perkel’s March 9 op-ed column, and Selectman John Wolf’s response, I have three comments about […]
VIGNETTE
Spring
STEAMERS
Weed Whacked
KEEPING WATCH
Either Way: Taking a Broader View of Human Variation
Reflections of a retired English teacher
In 1969, when I was 19 and rode a motorcycle, there was a highway sign on Route 6 in North Truro alerting drivers that they could get to Provincetown by […]
OP-ED
Giving Before We Take
A prescription: notice what the trees and terns seem to know
I found myself skipping out to the mailbox on a recent bright day. Skipping is not as easy as it used to be, but the drive is long, and I […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Rude Awakening
Town meetings are coming, and we are wondering how local citizens and governments will navigate hot-button issues this year. At last spring’s town meeting in Truro, a proposed change in […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, March 23, 2023
From John A. Wolf, Austin Miller, Heather Korostoff Murray, and Alice Brock
Suing the Auditors To the editor: Buddy Perkel’s March 9 op-ed, “What Wellfleet Deserved,” contains several inaccurate assertions. The select board has not filed a malpractice claim against the town’s […]
