Opinion
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Last week’s Phoenix contained numerous letters to the editor regarding the diversity, equity and racism issues plaguing the Bristol Warren Regional School District, but one letter that at first …
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11/18/21
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Intrigued by an enlightening opinion letter of the Nov. 11 Phoenix (“ School district isn’t racist — but it is failing ”), stating the math and science proficiency of Mt Hope …
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11/18/21
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To the editor:
In 1919 the Volstead Act was passed, which was a nationwide mandate to make the manufacture and sale of alcohol illegal. It failed, and was repealed. We still, nonetheless, have …
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11/17/21
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Based on recent discussions in Bristol Warren school board meetings and subsequent letters to the editor, misconceptions remain in our community regarding the benefits of culturally responsive …
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11/11/21
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Student voice and distrust were communicated forcefully Monday night during the public comment section of the Bristol Warren Region School Committee meeting. It is a brave thing to stand up in front …
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11/11/21
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On Oct.18, former Lt. Gov. Dan McKee ceremonially signed into law the Student Success Act which, promising in-state tuition to every alien, pits illegals and refugees against our native-born …
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11/11/21
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Bristol Warren’s schools aren’t racist … Worse, they are not succeeding at teaching math and science to the majority of children of any color or religion.
The real problem …
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11/11/21
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Today is profound. It is the first Veterans Day post-Afghanistan, the longest sustained conflict in U.S. history. The aftermath bears an eerie similarity to that of our second longest, the war in …
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11/11/21
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Last Saturday night, in a jam-packed banquet room, a couple hundred people squeezed elbow to soup bowl for a three-hour celebration of community. The occasion was the Bristol Sports Club’s …
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11/11/21
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This is in reference to the Afgans being brought into this country by the Biden administration. Once again our government picks and chooses who they will help.
As a Vietnam veteran, I watched …
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11/5/21
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“A veteran is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to ‘The USA for an amount of up to and including my life.’ ”
The above …
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11/4/21
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To the editor:
Remember when - it was only a few years ago - that Boston’s parking lots near Fenway Park were gouging fans with ridiculously astronomical parking fees. Why would …
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11/4/21
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Last week’s Phoenix contained a letter to the editor criticizing my opinion on the low police officer salaries in Bristol, and it appears that letter writer missed my point. What I was …
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11/4/21
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This gripping headline was representative of two letters to the editor and an editorial in the Oct. 28 Phoenix. Both the letters and the editorial took the Bristol Warren Regional School Committee …
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11/4/21
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To the editor: Climate change is here and it is a threat to our state, our nation, and our world. President Biden’s plan to cut American carbon emissions has been shot down, but fortunately …
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10/29/21
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The time has come to call out blatantly racist actions taken by some influential people regarding our Bristol Warren Regional School District, and this directly relates to shaping the future of our …
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10/28/21
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Regarding the letter from Mike Proto about police officers’ pay (“ Incentives are great, but police pay is still too low ,” Oct 14), he has the audacity of saying this when most …
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10/28/21
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It’s easy to miss the good news about the Bristol Warren schools these days. The constant turmoil from our school committee leadership is in the headlines again, giving our district another …
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10/28/21
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Here we are. Again.
It’s a good thing Bristol Warren Regional School Committee meetings are not entertaining enough for the majority of Bristol Warren students, because the kids should not …
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10/28/21
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It’s easy to mock the “way things used to be” guy. He’s always got a story about the old days, about things that no longer exist, about people you’ve never heard of. He …
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By Scott Pickering
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10/22/21
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An act of kindness and generosity by six sophomore Roger Williams University students proves there is hope for our younger generation.
Last Sunday, Arthur Medeiros and I were having breakfast at …
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10/21/21
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The actions of the Bristol Warren School Committee deserve scrutiny regarding the school resource officer situation developing at Kickemuit Middle School.
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10/20/21
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Nestled in our story about the rogue high school Halloween dance is a figure deserving of more attention. According to Mt. Hope High School Principal Deborah DiBiase, the school has confirmed …
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10/14/21
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Last week’s you featured a story about how our town's police department is attempting to incentivize officers in order to combat the problem of recruitment and retention of personnel, which is …
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10/14/21
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If you as an American ever wondered how a people as intelligent, empirical and rational as the Germans of the 1930s and ’40s allowed themselves to be divided, create classes of sub-humans, then …
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10/7/21
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