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Thank You, Commissioner Pare and Mayor Taveras

By Brian Hull on November 15, 2011

While other cities – from Oakland to New York City to St. Louis to Boston to Portland to even, yes, Burlington – have evicted or disbanded Occupy Wall St. encampments, Providence has seen another approach led by Public Safety Commissioner Col. Steven Pare and Mayor Angel Taveras.  Instead of using police action, they have used [...]

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