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REPRIEVE
Take Me Out
Rooting for the home team at Eldredge Park
Take me out to the ball game Last week, for my wife’s birthday, we went to an Orleans Firebirds baseball game. It was a beauteous evening, the skies clear, with […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 5, 2021
From Laura Fitzgerald, Laura Logue Rood, and Jennifer Benson
Turning Against Ourselves To the editor: Edward Boches’s July 8 op-ed essay, “What We See in the Flag,” was thought-provoking. I am saddened by disparagement of the American flag. People […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Covid Lies
A headline in Monday’s New York Times Business section jumped off the page at us: “Local News Aids Spread of Virus Misinformation.” Reporters Sheera Frenkel and Tiffany Hsu wrote that […]
VIGNETTE
Bumper Crop
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Idle Times, Good Trouble
The trials of an itinerant climate kibbitzer
I have the greatest respect for John Kerry, our former senator, presidential candidate, and now President Biden’s special envoy for climate. But I must disagree with him on one significant […]
STEAMERS
Wellskeeters
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 29, 2021
From Michael Meeropol, Natalie Ross Miller, Alexander Brewer, and Deborah Grabler
Being Nice Isn’t Enough To the editor: I am pleased that the Independent published Ellen G. Smith’s letter [July 22, page A2] proclaiming her support for Trump and insisting she’s […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
New RTE Math
Do any of you remember Tom Lehrer’s song “New Math” from back in 1965? It was his send-up of trendy math teaching of the time, in which he deftly pattered […]
SKETCHBOOK
Screen Door and Vine
STEAMERS
Jet Set
BACK SHORE JOURNAL
Tern on the Beach
An easy remedy for avoidable suffering and tragedy
We had just returned from voting in Wellfleet on the warmest day of the June heat wave. My wife and I voted for selectmen and for expensive new equipment for […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Fitness Training
In June 2019, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of the District of Columbia considered a challenge to the renewal of a liquor license for the Trump International Hotel on the […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 22, 2021
From Ellen G. Smith, Ronald A. Gabel, Channing Wilroy, and Lew Schwartz
Who Is to Blame? To the editor: On Saturday, July 3, I took a drive to Provincetown to get malassadas at the Portuguese Bakery. I parked at the pier for less than […]
VIGNETTE
Too Many Cars
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