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What's In Store For Social Security?, Chester Smolski
What's In Store For Social Security?, Chester Smolski
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"Health-care costs are commanding considerable attention these days. From Washing, D.C., to Providence and state capitals across the nation, the burning questions are, "How much?" and "Who pays?""
How Goes The American Dream?, Chester Smolski
How Goes The American Dream?, Chester Smolski
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"Americans are a hard-working lot. The ambitious American worker has fewer holidays, less vacation time and other benefits than Western Europeans. They are well-rewarded for their pursuit of the American dream. Home ownership rates in this country are among the highest rates in the world. The typical American worker has more cars and more kitchen gadgets, electronic hardware, recreational gear and more computers in his home than any other worker in the world."
Cooperating For Economic Development, Chester Smolski
Cooperating For Economic Development, Chester Smolski
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"This small state has an advantage over larger states because its size allows it to share ideas more easily. With only 39 cities and towns, and no county governments, it is possible to have a meeting in Providence, attended by representatives of these communities within less than a one-hour drive."
Cape Cod's Drive To Curb Overdevelopment, Chester Smolski
Cape Cod's Drive To Curb Overdevelopment, Chester Smolski
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The mid 1980s in Rhode Island will be long remembered as a time of intensive real estate development, explosive house process and manmade growth sprawling over the countryside. These phenomena also generated a reaction in the form of environmental concerns, the NIMBY syndrome, affordable housing issues and the passage of the 1988 Comprehensive Planning and Land Use Regulation Act.
Urging Private Sector To Work For Public Good, Chester Smolski
Urging Private Sector To Work For Public Good, Chester Smolski
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"There are few people who would be unhappy if they owned a capital asset that appreciated by 31.7 percent in one year's time. That is what happened to housing in the PRovidence area in the July-to-September period this year, as compared with the same period last year.
Looking To Suburban Malls For Lesson On Envisaged Providence Company, Chester Smolski
Looking To Suburban Malls For Lesson On Envisaged Providence Company, Chester Smolski
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"During next month, some major decisions must be made that will have long-term effects on the future health and prosperity of our capital city's central business district. One of these decisions relates to the proposed establishment of a 'Providence Company,' a management and marketing organization for the downtown, recommended in the recently completed Carr, Lynch and Levine report on downtown Development."
Enterprise Zones: Key To Renewal?, Chester Smolski
Enterprise Zones: Key To Renewal?, Chester Smolski
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"'We must free enterprise to save America' via an 'experimental effort to improve and develop our depressed urban areas' President Ronald Reagan said in his State of the Union address."
Providence Needs An Effective 'Land Bank' Policy, Chester Smolski
Providence Needs An Effective 'Land Bank' Policy, Chester Smolski
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"Recent disclosures on the purchase of vacant lots in Providence by certain city officals have raised two serious questions, only one of which has been addressed."
Providence Home Rule, Chester Smolski
Providence Home Rule, Chester Smolski
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"The opposition bumper stickers have already appeared. In bright fluorescent colors to catch the unsuspecting eye, the message is loud and clear--'Reject Home Rule Charter.' Why should there be this opposition, and who are the people against this progressive move toward better local government?"
Valley View Saved For Now, But What Of The Future?, Chester Smolski
Valley View Saved For Now, But What Of The Future?, Chester Smolski
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"It is 'a remarkable demonstration that public housing, under the right circumstances and with the right kind of management, can work.' So stated a prominent urbanologist from Loyola University in describing the Valley View housing development in Providence."
State-Supported Urban Policy Vital For Rhode Island, Chester Smolski
State-Supported Urban Policy Vital For Rhode Island, Chester Smolski
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"For the first time in this country's history there is now a national urban policy, a statement of objectives that need to be implemented if this nation's cities are to survive and subsequently prosper."