I think it's pretty weird too. I would rather have a single season of something that ended on a cliffhanger than nothing (of a show I really enjoyed). I think the position of requiring a 3-season commitment plus 100% resolution of all plot points up front is a bit much. I also think this crowd seems a bit hung up on story alone rather than the whole experience.

To me, this sounds like 4.5 years will be spent studying how to use this money to dismantle existing bike infrastructure and put the rest toward parking or something.

I agree about broken windows and litter (just litter, not policing). Before you know it, there's a patch of mattresses and a tire garden.

I dunno but I think you're way too late and all the xmas stuff is gone already. I wouldn't be surprised if Valentine's is already displayed.

WD40 isn't a lubricant either.

Not a providence resident, but I like so much of what he's done and attempted to do. Mostly parks and urban planning, but some other things as well. If you dive into the great streets initiative master plan type thing (can't remember what it's called) it's really sonething. I don't know if he's as hated as the loudest voices make it out to be, but that made it seem he was doomed. I would totally vote for him.

I will have some details wrong here, but I remember there was that impasse where he submitted the budget or something but the committee refused to vote it at all... until he was out of town (on vacation or maybe even just a mayors convention or something) and then they voted real quick then made a big stink about him being asleep at the wheel and an absentee politician. There were even more layers of absurdity to it but that was the gist. And I'm pretty sure Raimondo made his life difficult.

There's lots of hiking aound Coventry. Like already mentioned, there are several Audubon properties and others that have hiking trails (I like george parker woodland), plus the bikepath with lots of offshoots there too (beaudoin conservation area, merril whipple conservation area, +).