Monthly Archives: December 2011

WikiLeaks: can we handle the truth? [December 2010 / CCT]

WikiLeaker Julian Assange probably deserves the Prometheus of the Year award, as you can tell by how determined the world’s powerbrokers have been to hustle him offstage, unplug him. As has been widely noted, he is in hot water not for telling lies, but for making available the truth. (You remember the truth: that which […]

December 1, 2011 – 12:44 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged | Comments (0)

Regionalizing neither inevitable nor necessarily better [April 2010 / CCT]

Currently regionalization is being considered on the Lower Cape on two fronts. The towns of Wellfleet, Eastham and Orleans have been meeting to discuss the possibility of merging their police departments. Meanwhile a committee in Provincetown considers bussing the town’s children an hour or two each way to the Nauset district in Eastham and Orleans. […]

December 1, 2011 – 12:39 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Affordable architecture is not an oxymoron [May 2010 / CCT]

One of the warrant articles at Wellfleet’s recent town meeting asked citizens to spend to restore a mid-20th century cottage with architectural creds, one of a number with which the town is blessed. The money would come from the Community Preservation Fund and it seems an appropriate use to preserve our architectural past. Those present […]

December 1, 2011 – 12:34 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Afghanistan: No we can’t [June 2010 / CCT]

Ok, the proximate occasion of this column is the firing of the general in charge of our Afghanistan adventure. But that fraught mountain region has been in the media for all kinds of good news, bad news. June 14 headline: “Afghanistan at a turning point …Nation sits on $1 trillion in mineral wealth.” Good news, […]

December 1, 2011 – 12:31 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Warm spots in Wellfleet’s winter [January 2010 / CCT]

Most Wellfleetians have an affinity for the picturesque desolateness of our off-season. Which is not to say that in a chilly, snowy January we don’t appreciate the occasional warm spot. On Main Street, the logical place to look for signs of life, we have, let’s see… The Wellfleet Marketplace continues to provide a steady pulse […]

December 1, 2011 – 12:25 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)