Opinion
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STEAMERS
True Love
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Losing Our Connection
Baby turtles as a remedy for ‘species loneliness’
I am walking with my dog, Dory, along Provincetown’s Old Colony Nature Trail on an unusually mild January day. I pause at a certain spot, as I do every day, […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Housing Rears Its Head
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 […]
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 […]