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OHMM!
An August Meditation
OP-ED
Finding the Old Peace Sign
A time for Howard Zinn’s ‘guerrilla warfare with the establishment’
Somewhere in this old house where I live, full of many generations of treasures and trash, I still have the CNVA pin that I wore in high school (that’s Nauset […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Art’s Discomforting Pleasure
The Ukrainian band DakhaBrakha played at Payomet in Truro last Tuesday, challenging the audience with its insistent message about the war in their native country. At one point, golden-hour sunlight […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 11, 2022
From Mark Gabriele, Jim Vogel, Michael Gaucher, Kevin Grunwald, and Kathy Miller
Whelan’s Immigration Stance To the editor: In your Aug. 4 article about the upcoming sheriff’s election and our county’s 287(g) agreement [“Fate of County’s ICE Pact May Depend on Voters,” […]
VIGNETTE
Global Warming
INCLUSIONARY ZONING
A Disconnect at the Provincetown Planning Board
The board should help advance the town’s housing goals
The Provincetown Planning Board is considering a proposed housing project at 22 Nelson Ave. This project represents an inflection point for the Inclusionary Bylaw and for the ability of the […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
T-Shirts: Express Yourself!
A brief history of the easiest way to make a statement
I am going to tell you exactly how old I am: old enough to remember when T-shirts were white. I remember when they were essentially undergarments, worn with other shirts, […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
The Singularity of Lives
One of the most important tasks of an obituary writer is to discover the qualities that illuminated the life of an individual in relation to society and the relationships that […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 4, 2022
From Anne Miller, Brian O’Malley & Andrea M. Sawyer, Brian Eastman, and David Agger
Hospital Ethics To the editor: Thank you for your excellent articles on the lack of access to abortion care on Cape Cod, in one of the remaining states that supposedly […]
VIGNETTE
Cooling Station
ACCOMMODATION
Shouldn’t We Be More Alarmed?
Overall, Americans do not seem to be shocked by recent shifts in politics and society
I lie awake at night more often than I’d like to admit wondering if this is how it felt in 1933 at the end of Germany’s Weimar Republic. Did people […]
COUNTY LINE
Law Enforcement and Our Mental Health Crisis
Locking people up has never been a good approach to psychiatric illness
I was in a Brewster back yard on a recent sunny Sunday afternoon that was made for the beach but was instead an introduction to some unfamiliar — to me […]
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER AND EDITOR
Be an Owner of the Indie
The question of who owns the news media is important in a democracy. Though it can somehow seem impolite to talk about it. With some exceptions: We grew up understanding […]
