Opinion
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SCHOOLS
Educating Global Citizens
Striking a balance between intellectual discipline and spiritual development
EASTHAM — I moved from Puerto Rico to New York City as an infant. My parents, like so many others, had made the difficult decision to leave their homeland and […]
MAY DAY, 1971
Storming D.C., 50 Years Ago
Remembering the largest mass arrest in U.S. history
In early May 1971, a year after six unarmed student war protestors were shot and killed by the National Guard (four at Kent State University and two at Jackson State […]
STEAMERS
Abuttered Up
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Righting the Township
At the April 13 meeting of the Wellfleet Select Board, after observing that Town Administrator Maria Broadbent’s summary of a financial audit was “very alarming,” the board’s chair, Michael DeVasto, […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 29, 2021
From Joanna Stevens, Stephan Cohen, Mary Bergman, and Paul Krueger
The Health of Nauset Estuary To the editor: I join Kait Logan and Harrison Swift, who wrote letters [March 25] expressing their significant concerns about the proposed dredging of the […]
HEY DAHLIN’
Olde Townie Crossword Blowback
Find the solution to Mary DeAngelis’s Olde Townie Crossword here.
SKETCHBOOK
April in the Neighborhood
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Hitchhiker, Then and Now
What has changed over these 50-odd years?
On an overcast spring afternoon in 1968, I stood on the shoulder of Route 6, outside Hyannis, with my thumb out. After about 20 minutes, the drizzle began, the sparse […]
EARTH DAY
I Sing the Auto Electric
The fossil-fuel era is ending not with a bang but a whimper
There is an electric car in your future, and you’re going to buy it sooner than you may realize. How do I know this? I just bought one, after saying […]
STEAMERS
Drones
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
History Lessons
One of the Independent’s contributors whose work is especially enlightening is Amy Whorf McGuiggan, who writes the Graveyard Shift column. She never fails to come up with a good story […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 22, 2021
From Jim King, Myra Slotnick, Brent Harold, and Mimi Butts
Lise King’s Experience To the editor: Local newspapers sometimes endorse candidates for elected positions based on their qualifications, experience, and demonstrated desire to work for the good of the community. […]
VIGNETTE
Toms on the Town
OP-ED
Vaccine Passports and Individual Rights
Limited invasions of privacy are part of daily life
Vaccine passports are engendering a wide range of emotions and opinions. Gov. Cuomo has embraced them in New York. Gov. DeSantis has banned them in Florida. Gov. Charlie Baker has […]
