Tiverton
On the Matt Allen Show, last night, I gave a quick explanation of circumstances in Tiverton. Stream by clicking here, or download it. I’ll be on the John DePetro Show, this morning at 6:20 a.m. for the same purpose.
I’ve got an op-ed in today’s Providence Journal placing Tiverton’s budget battles in the context of community and different notions thereof. In one version of “community,” it’s a good thing to be a slob, thereby creating a need for other residents to pay somebody to clean up, and it’s a bad thing to take an…
I’ve spent the past six months or so learning the details of current debates in Tiverton government, so I’ve got quite a bit of information to get out into the public during this week between assemblies of the financial town meeting. Here are three posts I’ve put up, this evening: Responding to the tax assessor’s…
My summary report from the first 2010 Tiverton Financial Town meeting is now up. I’ll get around to posting video, at some point, but since I was so active at the meeting, I didn’t turn the camera at all, so it might be more useful to think of it as audio with a related picture.
I just got home from Tiverton’s financial town meeting and a lunch decompression session. I’ll attempt a more thorough report for the TCC Web site once my disorientation dissipates. I’ll say this, for now: I really did not imagine how far — how dirty — the Democratic Town Committee/union coalition was going to be willing…
According to the Newport Daily News, some elected officials in Middletown are willing to acknowledge the economy in which constituents are having to struggle: Councilman Edward J. Silveira said he submitted a docket item to discuss the issue [of a zero percent increase] after hearing from residents and businesses about the increased hardships they’re facing.…
One periodically hears the complaint that Republican candidates, in Rhode Island, too often shoot for the bigger state and federal elected offices, rather than starting local. Each person has to determine his or her interests and preferences for participation, but I’ve been finding local politics, here in Tiverton, to be extremely instructive in helping to…
Two other members of Tiverton Citizens for Change and I had the opportunity to talk Tiverton budgetary politics on the Richard Urban Show, yesterday. The video is up on the TCC Web site.
Somebody in town really wants a waiver of the state-imposed property tax cap, which currently limits the total property tax levy to a 4.5% increase. As I reported in a liveblog from last Monday’s Town Council meeting, the council voted to send an extra-statutory “letter of inquiry” (meaning that there’s no such thing in the…
With Tiverton’s financial town meeting (FTM) fast approaching, I’ve been having to attend multiple town meetings per week to keep an eye on the local powers who be. For anybody who’s interested, the resulting liveblogs and videos are up on the Tiverton Citizens for Change Web site. The experience has been a real education in…
