An open letter to the Woonsocket City Council on the sale of water to Invenergy
I believe that many of you on the City Council and as residents question the value of selling water to a power plant. But you need to be heard and you need to ask questions. Why enter into an arrangement with an outside company when others have already rejected just such an arrangement?
RhodeMapRI and preventing future Fergusons
Undoing the damage of decades of racist housing policy and preventing future Fergusons requires a plan. RhodeMap RI isn’t quite that plan, it’s more a collection of guidelines to help communities develop a plan, but it’s a good step in the right direction.
Todd Giroux should avoid marine mammals, politics
Earlier this month, the good people at the Mystic Aquarium Animal Rescue Team did the unusual, releasing three seals – two harps and one gray seal – at the same time at Blue Shutters Beach in Charlestown. The three seals, Pluto, Pandora and Curie, plopped out of their carriers and waddled down to the water to begin their normal […]
The Smaller The Town, The Hotter The Politics
With less than 8,000 people, beautiful beaches and forests and relative affluence, you’d think Charlestown would be a tranquil place. But don’t believe it. Politics is almost always a blood sport, and it seems that the smaller the setting, the bloodier it gets. The dominant political group in Charlestown is called the Charlestown Citizens Alliance, […]
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