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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 12, 2021
From Carol Jules, Wendy Walsh, Peter Rothstein, Judy Parmelee, Frank Lee Barringer, Marianne Boswell, and Mike Rice
Killing the Pollinators To the editor: Re “Mosquito Population Stays High Despite Treatment,” Aug. 5, page A7: Your informative article confirmed my suspicion that mosquito spray with permethrin is toxic […]
STEAMERS
Fudge It!
COUNTY LINE
The Covid Cluster: What We Must Do Now
We cannot be ‘back to normal,’ no matter how much we want to be
We had been so careful, keeping our distance, and doing all the right containment measures. Then came an explosive Delta-variant Covid outbreak in Provincetown. For a while, case counts doubled […]
VIGNETTE
Social Distancing
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 […]
