Toll testimony: Anyone listening?
If there really is an ‘impact’ study, if the impact of what happens to families and struggling businesses counts for anything, and if anyone upstate is even listening, two long nights of Sakonnet River Bridge toll hearings spoke volumes. Eight hundred — maybe more — people turned out in Portsmouth and Tiverton last week to [...]
Read More →East Providence Pols project hopeful air to begin their terms
Hope springs eternal is a tried and true phrase most often associated with the start of the baseball season each spring, though as we approach the first day of winter it can appropriately be used in context about the sentiment surrounding the just-seated governing bodies in the city. East Providence’s Inauguration Day 2012 went off [...]
Read More →Woods walk — what better gift
Protecting land is good … Getting out and enjoying that precious open space is better. So says Portsmouth’s Ted Clement as he bids aloha to the Aquidneck Land Trust and moves on to Hawaii (life is good!). It’s wise advice not only for land trusts but for everybody — parents especially. Asked about challenges facing [...]
Read More →Enough with the senseless grandstanding
While running the risk of sounding like a broken record on the subject, we here at The East Providence Post would encourage the incoming City Council and School Committee members, those to be seated Monday evening, Dec. 3, to discard the useless and seemingly endless grandstanding of their predecessors and set an immediate course of [...]
Read More →Speak now on tolls or …
People here can be forgiven if they doubt the sincerity of the Rhode Island’s after-the fact “economic impact study” on Sakonnet River Bridge tolls. After all, the toll plan was hustled through the state budget process without study and there is no indication that planners have seriously contemplated any alternative revenue plan. But when these [...]
Read More →Clean air assault
Aghast by the sulfurous yellow cloud that wafts from Brayton Point Power Station some days? Alarmed by news that this coal-fired power plant that has been described as New England’s worst air polluter, that its mercury emissions are New England’s fourth highest? Learn to live with it. If some in Washington get their way, such [...]
Read More →Elections do have consequences
Turn on any television station, read any newspaper website or media blog in recent days and the one phrase most often stated or written over and over again during post-election coverage was that those very “elections have consequences.” There’s no doubt they do, whether it be nationally, state wide or locally. The consequences of the [...]
Read More →Sandy — The South Coast response
But for steering currents and a couple hundred miles of coastline, the misery dumped by Sandy on points south and west might have been our lot. Which makes the reaction that started in Little Compton, spread to Westport and Portsmouth, and has since gone far and wide, all the more compelling. It began as texting [...]
Read More →Here’s how to help victims of Sandy
We’ve seen the pictures of houses in New Jersey and New York completely destroyed, plowed off their foundations, burned to the ground. We’ve seen the images of entire neighborhoods covered in a sea of sand after Hurricane Sandy barreled across the region, punishing all in her path. We’ve seen the pictures and what have we [...]
Read More →Weekend Halloween — what a treat!
Asked what they thought about the fact that Hurricane Sandy forced postponement of Halloween to the weekend in some places, several folks’ reaction on TV was “Great!” Amidst all the holiday date shuffling that has happened over the years, this one that makes perfect sense has been overlooked. Celebrating Halloween on the last Friday or [...]
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