Progressive
Charlestown – the Final Edition
By
Will Collette
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| The Gray People have finally won.... |
Well,
we made it just past four years. Tom Ferrio and I put up the first Progressive
Charlestown articles in January 2011. Since then, we have published more than 7,800
pieces that attracted two million page-reads.
We
did our best to give you a different point of view than the one pushed by
Charlestown’s landed gentry and rulers in the Charlestown Citizens Alliance.
We
also did our best to entertain and inform with everything from cartoons and Henri
the Cat videos to serious articles on health, the environment and the
economy.
We
covered local events, promoted local non-profits and small businesses and tried
not to miss any of Mystic Aquarium’s rescued seal releases.
But
while we had fun doing it, mostly and some of the time, we’re still stuck with
our town’s elite firmly in control of every town office and now have some
really terrible representation in the General Assembly.
Imagine:
we are represented in the RI House of Representatives by a guy
who doesn’t even live in the District. And that’s OK with most people
apparently.
And
we have a group of right-wing clowns running the Town Council, the Planning
Commission, Zoning Board and Budget Commission.
I
guess you’ll have to get your alternative point of view from the Charlestown
Press from now on. If actual war breaks out between the Narragansett Indian
Tribe and the town of Charlestown, you’ll have to wait to see if Channel Ten
sends Tony
Gugliotta down to cover it.
I
have mixed emotions. I relate to Henri’s sense of ennui but am also intrigued
by my colleague Bob
Yarnall’s attraction to fishing.
Ah,
what does it all mean? Perhaps I should just say….APRIL FOOL!