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Progress Report: Why Public TV Matters; Public Cars for Legislators; Woonsocket School Committee; Climate Change

By Bob Plain on November 14, 2012

Remember way back in the days when we feared Mitt Romney might become president and, if he did, he would cut public funding to PBS? Well Rhode Island already beat Romney to this nightmare scenario for liberals … WSBE Ch.36 is being transitioned off the state payroll beginning this month, reports Bill Rappleye of WJAR, [...]

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