Public bodies can meet behind closed doors if they’re discussing someone’s job performance or negotiating terms of a contract. They can add things to their agenda if a majority agree to …
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5/27/21
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The financial woes of the Bristol Warren Regional School District are structural, systemic and cannot be fixed in the next week.
The school committee will soon make necessary, short-term decisions …
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5/13/21
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One hundred and sixty-six years ago, heavy trains loaded with industrial cargo began rumbling along railroad tracks from Bristol to Providence. They carried the products of enormous factories from an …
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4/29/21
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Perhaps this drama will have a happy ending, but the plot to pry the Bristol Theatre Company from its home in the former Reynolds School building feels unnecessarily dark.
First, the theater …
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4/22/21
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When state governments need money, they often focus on familiar targets: personal sins (drinking, smoking and gambling), fossil fuels and the rich. In the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing …
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4/15/21
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The main notion behind the multi-trillion-dollar federal bailout was to pump aid directly and immediately to citizens who have suffered financial harm during the pandemic. That injection of cash will …
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3/26/21
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A generation ago, many would finish that sentence by saying Bristol is a great place to raise a family. Would they still today?
We ask because of what we discovered while researching population …
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3/12/21
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Bristol residents are in good hands these days — which is noteworthy, since “these days” are some of the worst days in anyone’s lifetime.
The pandemic is approaching its …
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3/4/21
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Covid has interrupted so many of life’s normal routines, but most jarring are those once-in-a-lifetime experiences that can never be recovered.
Weddings can be postponed until better days. …
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2/18/21
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The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority’s move to fully automated toll collection this week is welcome and long overdue. Starting Feb. 14, the bridge authority will launch a …
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2/12/21
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