To the editor: By your receipt of my letter, the 1st Congressional District special primary will still be underway. Presumably, the glut of Democrat candidates scrambling for a special election …
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9/7/23
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To the editor:
The Bristol Warren Regional School District (BRWSD) is in the process of seeking approval of a $200 million bond issue for the construction of a new high school and for making …
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9/7/23
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We Americans are different. We’re different from all other industrialized countries, and we’re different from one another. The U.S., for example, is the only industrialized …
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9/6/23
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To the editor:
In recent days, many residents of Bristol and Warren received a piece of mail attacking congressional candidate Aaron Regunberg and Representative Susan Donovan by associating …
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9/6/23
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To the editor:
The last acceptable citadel of fashionable public prejudice seems to have been confirmed in the Portsmouth Times’ editorial cartoon drawn by Charlie Hall this past week. The …
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9/4/23
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While we have no quarrel with the choice of the editors, we do have objections to the process they used to come to that choice.
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9/4/23
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To the editor:
September has been designated Hunger Action Month by Feeding America, the largest charity working to end hunger in the United States. That makes it the perfect time to consider …
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8/31/23
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To the editor:
Last Sunday, Aug. 20, we went to see the band Trinity, and all they play is Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and they do it very well. We left our house in Warren at 4 p.m. and …
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8/31/23
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To the editor:
The letter in last week’s Phoenix from a BHS teacher makes eminent good sense and adamantly implores the BWSB not to continue in its poorly planned choice to build the new …
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8/31/23
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To the editor:
With rising tides and worsening floods I do not want to see out taxpayer money wasted on trying to build a new school on its present wet, flood-prone site. I have lived in Bristol …
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8/24/23
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To the editor:
The irony of two back-to-back articles in the Aug. 16, 2023 Warren Times prompted me to write this letter. The first article was “A worthy day for Warren’s first …
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8/23/23
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To the editor:
Judith Byrnes’ Letter to the Editor (A safer bike path should be everyone’s goal, Aug. 10, 2023) sounds reasonable enough. But within its logic are several assumptions …
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8/17/23
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To the editor: This summer, our daughter was fortunate to be part of a wonderful group of kids who worked with Bristol Theater Company. Their hard work culminated this past weekend in four …
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8/17/23
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Automobile speedometers are not marked STOP or GO; nor are they marked SLOW or FAST. They have gradations — in MPH or KPH — from 0 to 150 or so. We use common sense, road …
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8/15/23
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To the editor:
The Rhode Island General Assembly should consider making changes to its process. For example, If Rhode Island legislation has been recommended for passage by a committee and then …
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8/10/23
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To the editor:
Recently my wife and I went to Blue Trail Launch Site, which is at the end of Corys Lane in Portsmouth. My wife was scared of this surrounding area, scared to be in an area she …
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8/8/23
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To the editor:
Victory Day, is celebrated in Rhode Island on the second Wednesday of August. It marks the surrender of Japan, ending World War II. To celebrate termination of humanity’s …
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8/3/23
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To the editor:
Last week's paper questioned the validity of the BWSC site choice. The consultant's response was that the new building was outside the theoretical limits of the flooded area. As …
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8/2/23
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To the editor:
Thank you to the unnamed Warren veterinarian who refused to euthanize an abandoned dog brought to them by the Town of Tiverton Animal Control. I read about this story at EastBayRI …
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8/2/23
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To the editor:
There was a time in the not-too-distant past that Warren was strictly the pass-through town. Our role was to set the traffic lights to flash yellow on the Fourth of July so the …
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7/27/23
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To the editor:
I read the police entry but I didn’t see any comics or games. That’s why I think you should put comics and games in the newspaper. I’m sure there are a lot of …
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7/27/23
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To the editor:
Last week's Bristol Phoenix contained a completely erroneous contribution in their “Speakout” section regarding the wetlands at the current Mount Hope High School …
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7/27/23
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To the editor:
Once again I read some reporting in the Phoenix of some startlingly inept and unimaginative planning proposed for the creation of a new Bristol/Warren High School. There is no …
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7/20/23
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To the editor:
Last week's Phoenix featured an article regarding the need for a new high school to replace the existing Mt. Hope High School and the obstacles that may be encountered if a …
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7/13/23
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To the editor:
Last week's Phoenix contained a letter to the editor criticizing the Rhode Island Legislature for what he perceived were poor budget decisions, and while that letter writer is …
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6/29/23
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