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Posted in Budget Committee, FTM, Letters to the editor, Tiverton on Apr 24th, 2010
Budget Committee Chairman Jeff Caron’s letter in the current Sakonnet Times is not available on the paper’s Web site, so here it is:
To the editor:
I write this letter not as the chairman of the Tiverton Budget Committee but rather as a concerned taxpayer. At the April 12 meeting of the Town Council, Councilor Durfee [...]
Posted in FTM, Letters to the editor, Unions on Apr 7th, 2010
Madeline and Jim O’Dell name names regarding the political group that brought the town to perpetual tax increases:
We also find it very odd that while all this criticizing and bashing is going on, no one is offering up any solutions. Also of interest is the fact that when Mr. Medeiros was asked — [...]
Posted in Budget Committee, Letters to the editor, School Committee on Mar 30th, 2010
There are currently two letters on the Sakonnet Times Web site that merit note. The first, from me, is a version of this tivertoncc.com post describing the basic financial picture at which the Budget Committee has been looking. The numbers are a moving target, but they remain accurate enough to stand as a [...]
Posted in Letters to the editor, Spending, Taxes, Tiverton, Unions on Feb 28th, 2010
I would like to respond to Deb Pallash’s Letter to the Editor to the Newport Daily News titled “Fight with unions cannot interfere with education” by thanking her for her efforts to help improve Tiverton’s schools. Of particular interest was Ms. Pallash’s statement “Long-term changes can never be achieved through force, bullying or disrespect″. We [...]
Posted in Letters to the editor, School Committee, Spending, Unions on Feb 28th, 2010
As one of the Tiverton residents at the January 26 school committee meeting who presented “a ‘bust the union’ political strategy,” according to Deborah Pallasch’s recent letter to you, I feel obliged to provide some context for your readers. I don’t agree that looking to the school district’s — and town’s — largest line item [...]
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