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LEZ IS MORE
Confession of a Former Southern Gentleman
Calling on women to check their ‘misses-ogyny’
“Remember, son,” he said with an earnestness that boggled my 10-year-old brain, “girls love it when you open the door for them.” It was my friend’s dad, and he was […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
When Ads and News Collide
This week we were confronted with a tough choice at our less- than-nine-month-old newspaper. We were offered a full-page ad that we decided we had to turn down. Full-page ads, […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 18, 2020
From Ngina Lythcott, Tom Lombardo and Tom Ross, and Channing Wilroy
Start the Conversations To the editor: When I was 12 I began to sit in on civil rights protests every Saturday with our local NAACP Youth Council. On Monday evenings […]
BLACK LIVES MATTER
We Should Not Have to Be Afraid
Why sharing a black screen on Instagram isn’t enough
I am outraged and I am terrified. I am outraged by the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, and so many other black American citizens. We […]
VIGNETTE
Pollen
COVID PORTRAIT: EMERGENCE!
Charlene
OP-ED
Pier Dispute Calls for Mediation
The fight over longtime fishermen who face displacement
The Provincetown Public Pier Corp. board, all volunteers, is trying to bring consistent application of rules and regulations to the pier, as well as rate increases that will meet the […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
White People Need ‘the Talk’
In 2014, after the shooting death of Michael Brown, 18, by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer who was not indicted for the killing, Elenita Muñiz, a blue-eyed Puerto Rican and […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 11, 2020
From Nacho Trives, John Portnoy, Bob Rice, and Channing Wilroy
‘El País Esta Vivo’ Al editor: Desde España estámos mirando y no sólo es espantoso, es también contagioso. Aquí la extrema derecho, PP y Vox, sigue subiendo y siguen descaradamente […]
DUNE TOWN
The Claws Have It
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Beech Forest Drama
How birders prepare their minds for beauty
They were feathered jewels moving through the trees, gifts from the Southern Hemisphere and our Southern states, most on their way north, here on the Cape for a few days […]
QUEER ‘I’
The Artist as Whistleblower
Larry Kramer left a towering LGBT legacy
To understand why Larry Kramer was a great artist and a singularly influential activist, you have to examine how much the world has changed from plague to plague, HIV to […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Promise of June
The first weekend in June is traditionally when our local public high schools — Nauset Regional High in Eastham and Cape Cod Regional Technical High in Harwich — hold graduation […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 4, 2020
From Candace Perry, Joan Holt, and Beata Cook
A Hard Look at Ourselves To the editor: What do we do when confronted with the terrible news of the actions and inactions of the Minneapolis police officers that led […]
