Gossip Superspreader by A. Crock
Opinion
From ed to op-ed and beyond.
Browse all Opinion stories below or dive into a topic:
VIGNETTE
Mother Duckie
Mother Duckie by Daniel Dejean
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Nonopinions for Nincompoops
Several readers sent us an article published this week in CommonWealth magazine titled “As local news withers, we’re losing sense of identity.” The author, Bruce Mohl, reports the stories of […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 30, 2020
From Dan Katz, Edouard Fontenot, and Dan Silverman
Cloverleaf Won’t Help Seasonal Workers To the editor: Re last week’s two op-ed columns [July 23, page A3]: Sen. Julian Cyr, perhaps the best elected official in the state, beats […]
SQUID INK
Summertime and the Jigging Is Easy
When the squid come in, wonder, respect, beer, the grill
WELLFLEET — I parked at Newcomb’s, front row for a surf check, and had not yet left the car when my friend Al walked over, rubbing the head of his […]
SKETCHBOOK
John Lewis, Good Trouble, 1940-2020
John Lewis, Good Trouble, by Mark Adams
OP-ED
Racial Inequity in Our Back Yard
Truro’s Cloverleaf project and the costs of systemic exclusion
TRURO — In early June, many Outer Cape Codders joined in our shared reckoning over the crisis of white supremacy and racial inequity in this country. After the protests, many […]
VIGNETTE
Mockingbird
Vignette by Daniel Dejean
OP-ED
The Bias Against ‘Pit Bulls’
Headlines can hide the truth behind dog bites
PROVINCETOWN — The Independent’s July 9 front-page story on the effects of the coronavirus crisis on dogs, “Pandemic Is No Treat for the Four-Legged,” fell into a common and unfortunate […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
News That’s Fit to Print
Last week, Publisher Teresa Parker wrote about the financial challenge of launching and sustaining a high-quality newspaper without sufficient start-up capital, and then finding ourselves smack in the middle of […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 23, 2020
From Jane Leavy and Fred Sperounis, Alex Brewer, Dave Bedard, Stephan Cohen, Susan Kadar, Betty Gallo, Kevin Grunwald, and Judith Cumbler
Visiting Truro While Black To the editor: We appreciate the Independent’s attention to race-based discrimination and reports of racial profiling on the Outer Cape [July 2 and July 16]. In […]
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
It’s Not a Moonshot
Shipwreck or springboard?
We went to press with our first weekly issue on Oct. 7, 2019, a little over nine months ago. Our business plan said we needed $375,000 in the bank.We had […]
VIGNETTE
One Way
SKETCHBOOK
Watercolor Lesson
Watercolor lesson on the bank of a Great Pond. Massachusetts common law tradition says that any pond over 20 acres is a Great Pond and is a Commons, held by […]
