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Original Reports
School Department Builds Surplus, May Campaign for More
As I write this on Wednesday evening, the Tiverton School Committee has just announced a special meeting on Saturday morning…
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Tiverton Homeowners Paying 2044 Taxes with 1990 Income
A while back, while discussing the annual decision of voters to pass budgets that increase Tiverton’s tax levy by less…
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Remembering the Library’s Promise of a “Slight” Increase
Tiverton residents should go back and read the headlines of some of the articles that the library put on its…
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How the School Department Turned Temporary Stimulus into a Permanent Surplus
Being busy in spring 2011, I didn’t pay much attention when the Tiverton schools’ business administrator explained that the state…
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School Enrollment Down, Budgets and Surpluses Up
Although some as-yet unturned rock might reveal the exception that proves the rule, it is safe to say that nobody…
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Tiverton 1st Set Out to Teach Taxpayers a Lesson
If the Town Council follows through with the Budget Committee’s threat to end trash pickup in Tiverton (or charge extra…
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Driggs and Cook: Response to Reckless Comments from Activist Budget Committee Member
We are responding to Tiverton Budget Committee Secretary, Deb Scanlon Janick’s dangerously reckless statements, made in her recent letter to…
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Nancy Driggs: Apologies Are Due to Tiverton Budget #2 Voters
Following the FTR vote the Budget Committee re-convened on June 9, 2016 to carry out its remand responsibility to “determine…
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Town Council Should Reject Budget Committee’s Vindictive Scheme to Kill Trash Pickup
The Tiverton Budget Committee has no authority to eliminate residential trash pickup, but in order to make a political statement with…
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News
Strategy for Addressing the 0.9% Budget #2 Remand to the Budget Committee
Now that their petition has won at the 2016 financial town referendum (FTR), the supporters of the 0.9% Budget #2…
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