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 […]
Opinion
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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 […]
