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CLASS ACTION
Recusal
David Comberg, Pamela Hovland, and Jacqueline Thaw are members of Class Action Collective, creating visual messages to advocate for social change. The group aims to challenge the way public issues are […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, March 24, 2022
From Elaine McIlroy, John A. Wolf, Stephen Greenberg, and Paul C. Mendes
Affordable Housing on Lawrence Road To the editor: I write to correct some of the statements in Edina Kopits’s March 17 letter to the editor [“For a ‘Workers Village’ ”] […]
LETTER FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR
Tell Me How You Really Feel
Talking to public officials is a frustrating job. They have a tendency to talk in circles, or in legalese. They sometimes excuse dishonesty by saying that they’re trying to build […]
VIGNETTE
Spring Cleaning
REFUGE
Children’s Worries About War
In Poland, a mother explains the politics of aggression
Many of my friends in Poland have families from Ukraine in their homes now. One friend, Marta Shaw, a philologist at the Institute of Public Affairs at the Jagiellonian University […]
COUNTY LINE
A Debate on Citizen Petitions
How many signatures should be required?
Basic issues of democratic process sometimes arise in the most apparently mundane proceedings. The Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates recently held a hearing on an ordinance proposed by the Cape […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, March 17, 2022
From Edina Kopits, Catherine Russo, Keith Thurlow, Phineas Baxandall, and Sharon Rule-Agger
For a ‘Workers Village’ To the editor: Re Edward Ebert’s letter of March 10 [“Wellfleet’s ‘Financial Rotary’ ”]: Finally, a voice in the wilderness that makes sense. I wish to […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Stepping Up in Wellfleet
A lot of readers of the Independent have been asking, “What can be done about Wellfleet?” I’m not sure what the answer is, but I have a few ideas. The […]
STEAMERS
Peak Cabin Fever
VIGNETTE
Snowdrops
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Town Hall Love Affair
A letter to Provincetown’s grand and yet modest matriarch
I have never written a love letter to a building before, but the spirit moves me now. Provincetown Town Hall is doubly beautiful, first for her physical attributes but even […]
WAR AND COVID
Thinking Clearly About Brain Fog
Person-to-person contact burns off the mist
A friend told me the other day that she doesn’t know if it’s post-Covid brain fog she’s suffering from, or if it’s undiagnosed Lyme disease or some other sinister condition […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Swan Lake
Last week, a young mayor in the Ukrainian town of Kopychyntsi sought out journalists in America. He knew that telling his town’s story, his country’s story, was as vital as […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, March 10, 2022
From Clyde Watson and Edward Ebert
That House at Ballston To the editor: In the first week of February, the building that was the former Pamet River Life Saving Station was moved back under emergency order […]
