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Mashpee drops Hiersche, picks an unqualified “favorite son” for school superintendent

Walter Brooks
Only in Mashpee can an assistant principal without district administrative experience or even a doctorate leapfrog into the superintendent position
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The surreal becomes the new real

Teresa Martin
Cambridge, April 19, 2013
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White man speaks with forked tongue

Walter Brooks
Governments have been breaking promises made to the Wampanoag nation for the last 400 years.
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No Place to Hyde in Mashpee

Walter Brooks
The best thing for Mashpee to do is hire an interim superintendent and start the search from scratch.
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Let’s let STEM be STEM

Walter Brooks
STEM doesn’t need legislative interference
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Where is Thurston Howell III when the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound needs him?

Walter Brooks
"A renewable energy wind farm signals the end of the dream of Cape Cod living" for Joe Keller and his anti-wind farm friends
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An eminent solution to Falmouth's wind woes

Walter Brooks
Town Manager Julian Suso estimates that removal of the turbines could cost up to $15.2 million
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Falmouth Raises Bar for their schools - hires a "competitor"

Walter Brooks
Picks Nauset's Bonny Gifford as their new Superintendent
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Support Barnstable's school budget increase

Walter Brooks
Barnstableأs budget includes technology upgrades that help students compete better and help the district itself rank better in the ongoing school competition race.
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Guest Editorial: Witness list shows Magnuson talks a sham from start

The only scheduled New England witness scheduled to speak is John Pappalardo of the Cape Cod Hook Fishermen’s Association
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Falmouth four superintendent finalists - a mixed bag

Walter Brooks
Two are good choices, two are non-starters - Nauset's Bonny Gifford and the Vineyard's Laurie Halt are better competitors than the others
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Who should be the new Monomoy School District superintendent?

Walter Brooks
Some Monomoy candidates are competitors, others non-starters
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Another "weatherman's" storm?

Walter Brooks
Whacked we weren't
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Cape Cod's Reefer Madness, 2013

Walter Brooks
Antediluvian town boards find something new to obsess about: A new state law they can not legally amend or even delay.
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Barnstable's cigarette ban is a restriction of trade

Walter Brooks
Barnstable over-reached on this issue. Visit any Rite Aid or CVS and look at the other “unhealthy choices” a shopper can make. Will they ban snacks and candy next?
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Largest poll response ever tells Lyons to resign

Readers say drunk driving County Commissioner Lyons must go

Largest poll response ever  – and they’re still voting

By Walter Brooks

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Our 2012 Gifts to both good and bad Cape Codders

Cape Cod Today's Christmas Wish List for 2012

It is our tradition to suggest the blessings and curses appropriate for our fellow Cape Codders whose fanfares or fiascoes have helped fill our news-hole this year.

By Walter Brooks

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Should Commissioner Sheila Lyons Resign after OUI arrest?

Should Sheila Lyons Resign as a Cape Cod County Commissioner?

Elected Officials Must  Be Held to a High Standard

By Walter Brooks

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The obscenity of segregation in Barnstable

Something obscene in the Town of Barnstable

Whatever the excuse, segregation is obscene

By Walter Brooks

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Keating for Cape Cod

It has been a long time since a Congressman could call Cape Cod home

By the CapeCodTODAY.com Editorial Board

In the last configuration of the our Congressional district ,which included the South Shore and Quincy, Cape Cod was an important part of the district, but not the head, more like the tail of the dog.

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No, no, November

I hate November

As did Cape Cod's first visitors

By Walter Brooks

I disagree with T.S. Eliot who opined that "April is the cruelest month." T.S. probably never spent a November in New England when the warmth and wonder of summer dies in the cold and wind of November.

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Koch’ed up: Petcoke’s political pollution

Koch'up: Petcoke's political pollution
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Brown or Warren; a disappointing choice

Distasteful Options in US Senate Race

Brown vs. Warren is a disappointing choice

By Walter Brooks

As a social liberal and fiscal conservative over the age of eighty, I have voted in more elections than I can remember – and have covered them as a journalist for some sixty years.  Rarely in my experience has there been such a distasteful selection of US Senate candidates as we have this year in Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren.

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Cape Wind will protect Nantucket Sound

The Cape Wind Offshore Wind Farm Will Protect Nantucket Sound

Project can meet 75 percent of electricity demand for Cape Cod and the Islands

By Kit Kennedy, NRDC.

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Educating 12-year olds and 18 year-olds together

12-Year-Olds in a High School Building?

Declining enrollment forces some 7th and 8th graders into high school buildings

By Walter Brooks