LETTERS

Beautiful state, if only we`d keep it that way

Posted 4/17/18

To the Editor: I appreciate the Beacon's local coverage, and I am pleased that it reported the launch of my campaign for senator in RI District 30. I simply wish to clarify one sentence of the story: I don't believe the state looks like a garbage dump.

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LETTERS

Beautiful state, if only we`d keep it that way

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To the Editor:

I appreciate the Beacon’s local coverage, and I am pleased that it reported the launch of my campaign for senator in RI District 30.

I simply wish to clarify one sentence of the story: I don’t believe the state looks like a garbage dump. Perhaps I did not state my view clearly enough, but what I was saying was actually just the opposite: I was decrying the fact that our state is beautiful, but too often looks as though trash has been dumped and allowed to remain strewn about.

Let me give a specific example. Drive to the State House. Get off at the exit by the Marriott (where many visitors to the state might arrive), and look at the litter along State Street. My office was there for 10 years. The trash has been there for most of that time. Why?

In fact, here’s another related concern. While my office was there, the area was improved. Great. New “vintage” streetlights and poles were even installed. Wonderful. Except...three months later, a couple of the globes were broken, others were askew, and a number of the lights were out. It begs the question: why, when the state constructs something, is there so little planning for maintenance?

We need to clean up this state, figuratively and literally! I’m running for Senate because I’d like to take a crack at doing that.

Mark McKenney

Warwick

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