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Three quarters of a percentage point doesn’t sound like much until it is applied to millions of dollars and a 20-year repayment schedule.
In his five-year forecast issued in July, City …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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8/22/24
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The Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corporation (RIHEBC) announced this week that it closed on 12 bond financings and refinancings totaling more than $830 million in fiscal year 2024. …
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7/25/24
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Political voices on all sides seem to agree, Cranston can’t afford not to pass next week’s $40 million school bond referendum.
Voters will decide whether to listen to city officials …
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By RORY SCHULER
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5/29/24
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STORY OF THE WEEK: Back in the day, the approach of the end of February would signal the time for the Providence Newspaper Guild Follies – the bygone annual satiric sendup of the year in Rhode …
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2/21/24
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Building two new high schools isn’t as easy as pressing a button now that the City Council has approved the issuance of $350 million in bonding approved by the voters last November.
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By JOHN HOWELL
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10/12/23
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School Superintendent Lynn Dambruch and Assistant Superintendent William McCaffrey were still on Cloud Nine Tuesday morning following city council approval to issue bonds for new high schools Monday …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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9/21/23
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The Warwick Sewer Authority is between a rock and a hard place. It is ready to move ahead with the repair of 2.5 miles of pipeline providing service to thousands of residents, in fact the temporary …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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3/2/23
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Here are the bullet points:
In November Warwick voters approved $350 million to build two new high schools.
Warwick school officials are anxious to get started.
City council members are …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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2/8/23
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Memories bridge distances.
That was evident last Monday when Gordon Wilmot called with the news that Alejandro Camara, two of his children and a granddaughter would be arriving at his Warwick Neck …
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1/4/23
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With early voting having started Wednesday and Election Day less than three weeks away, a group favoring the $350 million ballot question to build new Toll Gate and Pilgrim High Schools has stepped …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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10/19/22
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Robert Cushman says Warwick needs new high schools. The city would thrive with them. But Cushman is urging voters to reject the $350 million bond referenda on the November for new Toll Gate and …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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9/14/22
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By ALEX MALM
A proposed $5 million bond to acquire open space properties across the city won’t make it to the ballot this year after the Council voted 6-2 against it during Monday’s …
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6/8/22
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By ALEX MALM
Steve Gothberg, school Director of Construction and Capital Projects said Tuesday he is confident RIDE will approve the city’s application to build two new Warwick high …
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4/20/22
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By ALEX MALM
After receiving the blessing from the Warwick City Council last month to move forward with an application with the Rhode Island Department of Education in hopes of building two new …
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3/9/22
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Should the City of Warwick raise $15 million through a bond measure in order to purchase 459 acres of open space?
That's the question that the Warwick Land Trust hopes is on the ballot next …
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By ALEX MALM
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11/11/21
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This hasn't happened to me before . I'm being hit on by women. Annie and Alice, fictitious names so as to absolve them of anything more than not paying greater attention, are lovely people. Both are artists in their own way. One is a dance instructor.
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7/29/21
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Easy voting Warwick voters followed the statewide tend in approving all seven referenda on the Tuesday ballot for a total of $400 million in borrowing. Two polls were open with 839 casting ballots at City Hall and another 1,095 at the Pilgrim Senior
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3/4/21
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Open for voting Early voting in Warwick on the $400 million package of seven bonds on the March 2 ballot tops all other municipalities although the total of 221 votes cast by Tuesday morning is anemic given the city has more than 60,000 registered
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2/25/21
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By ETHAN HARTLEY On Tuesday, March 2, Rhode Island will hold a special election that could potentially green-light $400 million in state bonding - borrowed money that is to be paid back over a period of time, with interest, similar to a mortgage. The
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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2/18/21
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To Rhode Island GeneralTreasurer Seth Magaziner, the question is not whether Rhode Island can afford $400 million in state bonding that will be voted on during a special election on Tuesday, March 2, …
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By ETHAN HARTLEY
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2/17/21
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