Cape Cod Archives

Opinion: More Radioactive Waste With Nowhere To Go

The experimental technology promoted by the governor, the nuclear industry, and some academic institutions is still on the drawing board and has no proven cost parameters

CAPE DOWNWINDERS November 5, 2025

Mass Native Brings Beach Towel Art Project To Oldtimers Longboard Classic

“Cape Cod and the surrounding area has such a wonderfully creative community, the decision to attempt the towel show here felt natural.”

DANA FORSYTHE August 21, 2025

Cape Cod visiting nurses union picket sign. Photo by Mary Randolph. Copyright 2024 Mary Randolph.

CAPE COD VISITING NURSES UNION AUTHORIZES STRIKE

The home health organization can’t afford to lose more nurses … but nurses can’t afford to stay

MARY RANDOLPH September 5, 2024

PROVINCETOWN VOTES TO DECRIMINALIZE PSYCHEDELICS

“Our town is now leading the way for affordable access to plant medicine and is setting an example for our state.”

JACK GORSLINE December 18, 2023

TONE AND CONSEQUENCES OF REOPEN DEBATE ESCALATE ON CAPE COD

Reopening looks as likely to be undemocratic in Mass as it has been anywhere in the country, with employers acting as the ultimate arbiters of whether their workers will be forced to choose between accepting the health risks of returning to work or getting kicked off unemployment.

BRIAN Z. ZAYATZ May 14, 2020

NUCLEAR DECISIONS: THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES DON’T ALL AGREE ON

“Right now, we just don’t know what to do with nuclear waste. It lasts 100,000 years … It’s shockingly toxic. We’re going to have to figure out what to do with that waste for sure. I mean, 100,000 years.”

ERIN NOLAN February 11, 2020

REVISITING ‘PILGRIMS’: THE CLEANUP ON CAPE COD

To understand the current controversy over the decommissioning of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, you have to understand its past

BINJ ONLINE August 30, 2019

MORE PHYSICAL COPIES OF ‘PILGRIMS’ DROPPED IN PLYMOUTH & CAPE COD

If you are in the Plymouth or Cape Cod areas, we also just dropped more bundles at the following libraries …

BINJ ONLINE January 31, 2019

THIN BLUE LINEAGE

What’s up with all those flags lining the roads outside of Boston? Once only an occasional sighting, these flags, stickers, and other apparel have become increasingly common not just south of Boston, but all across the Commonwealth.

BRIAN Z. ZAYATZ October 2, 2018

PILGRIMS: 50 YEARS OF ANTI-NUCLEAR MASS

The 525-ton, 65-foot tall reactor vessel for the Boston Edison Company’s Pilgrim Nuclear Station took a month-long, 3,587-mile voyage to go from the fabrication shops at Combustion Engineering on the Tennessee River to the plant site before being nudged into a landing — about a mile south of where the Pilgrims had

MIRIAM WASSER March 3, 2018