Opinion
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Sustaining the News
Many readers sent us a link last week to a fine piece by Boston Globe columnist Renée Loth, titled “Saving Democracy’s Front Lines — Local Newspapers.” “Local newspapers hold a […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, December 23, 2021
From Ronald A. Gabel, M.D. and Stephen Greenberg
HIPAA Replacement? To the editor: The senior communications officer of Outer Cape Health Services, Gerry Desautels, cited no state or federal statute or regulation to justify his organization’s lack of […]
VIGNETTE
Solstice
STEAMERS
Provincetown Edition
COUNTY LINE
Public Health and Medicare for All
The full spectrum of preventive care should be available to everyone
One of the clearest lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic is that, for society as a whole to be healthy, everyone needs access to health care. Untested and untreated people in […]
FUTURE SHOCK
Rue Commerciale
A place like nowhere else
A Provincetown scene in the not-too-distant future: Excitement mounts as crowds line up at the gate. The faint strains of “Mystere Rondo,” a Cirque du Soleil theme song, can be […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Relativity
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
At the Scene
It’s 9:40 a.m. Tuesday (deadline day) when an email comes from my editor. “This just came in. Can you get the story?” he asks. Attached is an email from a […]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Letters, December 16, 2021
From Mike Rice
Accounting Down To the editor: Regarding Wellfleet’s seemingly abysmal fiscal situation: if a new town administrator is hired before the town’s accounting mayhem is straightened out and before a competent […]
SKETCHBOOK
Pumpkin Spice
VIGNETTE
Lights
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Strong, Thin Line of Remembrance
On keeping watch in the dark
I am standing outside our beautiful town hall on a chilly, dark evening — late afternoon, actually, in this damnably short-day time of year. There are flickering candles all around […]
THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Native or Washashore — Who Cares?
Regarding Art Nickerson’s recorded statement at the end of Cam Blair’s “When Turnips Were King in Eastham” (Nov. 18, page B7), I seriously doubt that there’s anyone alive who knew […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Dastardly Deed
In our issue dated Aug. 19 of this year, Stephen Kinzer wrote a stirring essay about President Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Provincetown in the summer of 1907 to lay the […]
