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STEAMERS
Starving for Art
ZONATIONS
More Perfect Unions
Workers’ associations can be a democratic force for good
In Michigan, the United Auto Workers was the quintessential labor union. We breathed cars and trucks, and our economy rose and fell in direct correlation to auto sales. Every family […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Local Newspaper With Benefits
Seven weeks ago, as we passed the two-year mark and began Volume 3 of the Independent, I wrote about our finances and where we stood in relation to our projections. […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, November 25, 2021
From David Holmstrom, Dan Katz, Jo Citron, Jay Vivian, and Brent Harold
There Is No Alternative Bike Route To the editor: The Independent reports that the Dept. of Conservation and Recreation “continues to believe that the safest and best approach for users […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Over the Bridge
Two weekend trips to a foreign country
I believe I have mentioned my fierce love of Provincetown. I believe, too, that I am not unique in this respect. Indeed, one of the defining attributes of people on […]
VIGNETTE
Orange Season
STEAMERS
Silence of the Clams
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Paradise Dangled
As a boy growing up in the 1950s, paradise was a pine-paneled cottage in the Surfside Colony at Lecount Hollow Beach. A few of you cringed as you read that […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, November 18, 2021
From Hilde Oleson, Nancy Kahn and Jeannette de Beauvoir
‘Pain as Well as Joy’ To the editor: Coming into a nursing home is frightening when you are old and fragile. At least, that is what they tell you. Then […]
VIGNETTE
Heading South
THIS WAS ENOUGH
The Summer and Winter Wetus of Our Predecessors
People of the First Light migrated with the seasons
We are moving deeply into November, the month now recognized as containing the National Day of Mourning for the Native Peoples of this land. Looking wistfully for optimism, or something […]
COUNTY LINE
Let’s Change the Power Structure
Short-term profits won’t allow us to strengthen our fragile electric service
The last week of October brought fierce winds, broken trees and poles, and power outages. In Provincetown, no one had electricity for the first day, and in large sections of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Humpty Dumpty Policy
Five weeks ago, we published a story with the headline “Truro and Wellfleet Will Fail to Meet Their Housing Goals.” It summarized the four Outer Cape towns’ affordable housing production […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, November 11, 2021
From Barbara Carboni, Mike Rice, Anthony Garrett, and Elizabeth Brooke
Truro’s Housing Plan To the editor: Thank you for your recent focus on housing production on the Outer Cape, including “Truro and Wellfleet Will Fail to Meet Their Housing Goals” […]
