“The people we are now calling essential, one in five of them earns less than 200 percent of poverty level.”
“People in the New York metropolitan area began looking outside of the city for a sanctuary in a quieter, more peaceful area.”
Heather Dupee wasn’t sure she could do it. Three years after opening her kids’ cooking school at Warren’s Hope and Main, the former event planner was entirely at ease teaching elementary school children how to make recipes like mac and cheese. But in mid-March, as Governor Gina Raimondo progressively shuttered the public square to contain the novel coronavirus, in-person classes…
“A ban will continue to push all users to markets that are not regulated, not taxed, not transparent and, by virtue of that, more dangerous.”
“I don’t think legislators always realize that the archives are a central function of state and federal government’s accountability.”
“I was surprised, and I’m not easily surprised at this point.”
“Each side has hunkered down into its tribe, and it’s very sad.”
“If we blow the census, it will make those tough budget years look like the salad days.”
“Our goal is to make sure those dollars are benefitting the local economy as much as possible.”
East Greenwich’s Archie Cole Middle School had the state’s heftiest price tag at $1,400 per student.
