Progressive Charlestown

Leading dark sky protection organization endorses model for sport field lighting. Are you paying attention, Ruth? I want to tell you about a...

Planning Commissar Platner and Commission blasted for outrageous demands By Will Collette Platner gets the bird Rarely to you eve...

From Fake Science

Does Charlestown do it right? By Will Collette Since the CCA took control of the Charlestown Town Council and Planning Commission in ...

A rare piece of effective conflict resolution By Will Collette At least the school wasn't selling advertising on the sign At le...

…With a Sun “guest editorial” filled with distortions By Will Collette The Westerly Sun reprinted one of the CCA’s final 2012 campaign...

Some predictions for 2013 Our new Town Administrator By Ann Nonimus After the crazy ride our town leaders put us through in 2012, ...

Sixteen years are more than enough By Will Collette To read all  of Progressive Charlestown’s coverage of Ruth Platner’s tenure as ...

Town Council postmortem New CPD Chief Jeffrey Allen By Will Collette Maybe we’re all just exhausted – or more likely sick and tir...

Control of Ninigret Park is back on the agenda and storm clouds over Blue Shutters Beach By Will Collette As part of the continuing servi...

Bring a pillow By Will Collette The Charlestown Planning Commission meets tonight for yet another of its marathon sessions. The...

Muni court jurisdiction, light poles, Y-Gate lessons learned, another anti-affordable housing push? By Will Collette It’s alway...

For your convenience, the actual order of business These agendas are SOOOOO confusing By Will Collette This is part of a new serv...

Road bond refund, light poles, open space and affordable housing By Will Collette After a short hiatus , Charlestown’s version of p...

After short hiatus, Platner and her Planning Police come back on July 25 to long agenda She's back! By Will Collette NOTE: gi...

An interview with Charlie Vandemoer on Charlestown politics and the National Wildlife Refuge By Will Collette Charlie Vandemoer, US ...

The highs and lows of Charlestown ’s town government Elyse LaForest, National Parks Service Federal Lands to Parks Program speaks at June...

Maybe we’ll find out Monday night By Will Collette One of the several blockbuster issues on the Town Council agenda for Monday, June...

Battle for Ninigret Park, the Y-Gate Zombie, Platner’s Power Grab, CRAC Questions and much, much more Why is it that almost ALL of the To...

RGGI nets Rhode Island $16 million in revenues By Will Collette I’m not a big fan of “cap and trade” anti-pollution programs. These...