Facts don’t get in the way of a good argument for some
The time really has come for those perpetuating innuendo and rumor around the city to stop. And it is also about high time everyone, everyone in East Providence comes to grip with the notion that the past, present and future decisions of the Budget Commission are final, regardless of what many of our politicians and [...]
Read More →On this reservoir, anything goes
Tiverton’s Stafford Pond has long been the party house of reservoirs. Most reservoirs are places of fences, rules and no-trespass signs but not Stafford Pond. This is the fun reservoir — the place where most any activity is not only allowed but encouraged, sometimes by the very people typically tasked with protecting drinking water. As [...]
Read More →We’ll likely look back with wonder over same-sex marriage fuss
The Rhode Island House of Representatives, including all four with city ties, last week overwhelmingly passed a measure making the Ocean State the last in New England to allow same-sex marriage. We here at The Post applaud their courage and conviction and ask of the same from the R.I. Senate. Regardless of how this is [...]
Read More →Missing the boat
For towns with harbors, there’s no understating the value of a good harbormaster office. Westport seems to understand this; Tiverton might take a lesson from its neighbor to the east. Westport is blessed with a first-rate harbormaster (Richie Earle) who has been there for years, knows the waters well and is there to assist boaters [...]
Read More →Wise up, work together
it’s still a work in progress, town officials working on a revision of Warren’s wetlands ordinances should be commended for trying to take care of locals while placating the Department of Environmental Management (DEM). The state agency has taken a “conform at all costs” attitude about runoff and nitrogen pollution, and has put tough demands [...]
Read More →Rhode Island, the land of ‘DINOs’
While the issue of same-sex marriage has garnered the most attention during the first few weeks of the new General Assembly legislative session, another issue of particular import has also picked up steam as the idea of removing the so-called “master lever” from the voting booth gained wide-ranging support. From East Bay resident and Moderate [...]
Read More →Sales tax border wars
If it comes to pass, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s plan to cut the Massachusetts sales tax to 4.5 percent is great for business on that side of the state line but miserable news for competitors next door in Rhode Island. Dealing as it must with New Hampshire’s zero percent sales tax to the north, Massachusetts [...]
Read More →Traffic experts say the darndest things
It isn’t just the degree that separates traffic experts from the rest of us. It’s the talent for saying the most remarkable things while keeping a straight face. One was at it again last week in Tiverton Town Hall. Asked by the developer who employed him to gauge the potential traffic impact of 680 trips [...]
Read More →Break a leg, Warren
Finally, an idea Warren can get behind. The last four or five plans for the Liberty Street School were far from ideal, asking the town and residents in its cramped downtown district to give up too much for too little. But the most recent plan for the old brick edifice is refreshingly different and deserves [...]
Read More →Proposed East Providence school changes spark debate
As has become all too customary in the city the last several years, potential changes in the School Department have sparked a heated debate over the last week with details of proposed building closings and consolidations having been leaked to the news media and the public at large. Parents of the affected students and areas [...]
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