Clock should be ticking on East Providence Budget Commission’s departure
By any realistic and unbiased measure, the East Providence Budget Commission has been a success. The state overseers came into the city some 14 months ago with a mandate to sort out its finances, stabilize its cash flow, formulate a prudent future financial forecast and make meaningful cuts to municipal government our elected politicians failed [...]
Read More →Technology shows its worth through a storm
So we here in East Providence seemed to survive Nor’Easter Nemo, Winter Storm/Blizzard of 2013 pretty well. Many of us lost power for much of Friday night and throughout Saturday, but save for the odd minor car accident and a house fire where there weren’t any injuries to report, we came through basically unscathed. We [...]
Read More →Officials need to dig deeper to solve city’s problems
To the editor, Last week I attended two meetings that brought a bit of joy and a great deal more sadness. The first was the City Council meeting on the 22nd. The joy came from hearing that the city and the developers of Rumford Center received the 2012 Project of the Year Award for outstanding [...]
Read More →City, state may not be worth saving
To the editor, Here we go again. It seems that no one is satisfied with anything here in East Providence! Alleged dust, dirt, noise, silence, light, dark, ice, snow, etc./a.k.a. “aggravation”! I have lived in Riverside since 1979 having moved from inland Cumberland/Pawtucket. Since then, I have been subjected to the Port of Providence’s noise [...]
Read More →Wishing more people would get involved in the discussion
If we had one early holiday wish for the City of East Providence if would be for more of its citizenry to become involved in public and political life. It would certainly vary and broaden the range of opinion available on important issues facing our residents and business owners. All too often in the recent [...]
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