I'm writing to explain my endorsement of Seth Yurdin for the Ward 1 City Council seat. I'm not the only one who holds great hope for Seth as a councilman; he's also been endorsed by Brown's Dining Services workers' union, Clean Water Action, Democracy for America, the Providence Phoenix, countless neighborhood ...
There's a frequently constructed binary that distinguishes the "symbolic" from the "substantive" political act. This is usually a false distinction, since any quasi-democracy should, pretty quickly, be able to convert so-called symbolic acts into substance via the electoral process. A single speech, ...
I'm writing to alert the campus community - students, faculty and all employees - to opportunities to become involved in two exciting city initiatives.
This week, the Sierra Club's Green Fleet Tour comes to town to celebrate Providence's passage of an ordinance I introduced a couple of years ago requiring the city to buy fuel-efficient vehicles as its fleet turns over.
We're at an exciting moment in Providence, with the breadth and strength of the progressive movement stronger than they've been in years. As it becomes clearer that a laissez-faire, trickle-down downtown renaissance will not satisfy stark and immediate economic needs, there's a newfound energy behind ...
Providence has a housing affordability crisis. Forty percent of households live in housing that is considered unaffordable for them, and the effects of this situation are felt in all corners of our community. High housing costs exacerbate poverty and all the troubles that follow it, make neighborhoods ...
Rhode Island's taxes are among the most regressive in the nation, and our state's school funding structure - or the effective lack thereof - is to blame. An increased income tax tied to decreases in local property taxes would make our tax code more fair and solve the school funding dilemma that plagues ...
Though many Brown students worked to make it otherwise, Providence and so many other cities are bracing for four more years of George W. Bush's relentless attacks on our livelihoods.
Because of problems during last year's Undergraduate Council of Students elections that were in part the consequence of an unwieldy runoff system, the undergraduate student body will soon vote on whether to use Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) in future UCS elections. Students should seize the opportunity ...
Students' autumn efforts towards the attempted defeat of George Bush were laudable: the semesters in Wisconsin and Ohio, the weekend trips to New Hampshire, the donations and the phone banking - all were valiant. But as we are all too aware, they failed. In light of this, it is in some sense heartening ...
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