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- Class warfare in Olneyville
The posters sprouted in mid-April, salvos in the rhetorical battle over the future of Providence’s West Side.
- The more things change, the more they stay the same
In December 2000, the threat to replace Fort Thunder and other old mills in Eagle Square with a bland strip mall attracted a broad and spirited opposition movement.
- Walk the talk
Boston is billed as America’s premier pedestrian city, but is it really true?
- Cicilline leads charge to replace economic development guru
Three years after Donald C. Eversley was ceremoniously introduced as the president of the Providence Economic Development Partnership, the partnership has moved to not renew Eversley’s contract.
- How screwed are we?
At a time when most state budgets are flush with surpluses, Rhode Island’s fiscal house remains in disrepair.
- A turbine grows in Warwick
If all goes well, Shalom Housing in Warwick, a division of Jewish Seniors Agency, will be the home of a 100-kilowatt wind turbine, part of new federal “green” stimulus award of up to $1.5 million from the US Housing and Urban Development to retrofit the 30-year-old, 100-unit low-cost senior housing project.
- System failure
In the “Talking Politics” column “Mass betrayal,” you attribute our state’s long, sad history of corrupt politicians to the culture of the State House. You’re probably right.
- Tensions remain hot on west side development
Critics have suspected for several years that a string of development on Providence’s West Side was nothing less than the cutting edge of gentrification.
- An accidentally tragic timeline
Your “Terror Masala” article, unintentionally of course, is very timely in view of the atrocities in Mumbai.
- Flaherty's fix for the BRA
Your recent article regarding the upcoming preliminary election for mayor of Boston, inaccurately portrays my proposal for the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), the city’s planning and development agency.
- Activists pitch green jobs as a win-win for Rhode Island
With global warming looming and the US economy in a mess, environmentalists have a simple answer for promoting environmental protection and economic development.
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