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Bob, i'm curious to know what bills you introduced when you were a city councilman to address this problem? How about when you were head of the School Cmte and negotiated teacher contracts? What reductions were made under your watch? I'm tired of hearing the "I told you so" class of warwick pols, it's sickening!!! The only time Bob Cushman became such a rabid supporter of pension reform, was after he was booted out of office by the voters of his ward. As I understand it, the whole reason you introduced the bill was because you were on your way out the door, and it was a way to deny your opponent a full pension and/or full health care (forgive me I don't recall which one). For you to once again come forward as a "champion" of warwick taxpayers is insulting.

It is not however, as blatantly dishonest and one sided as John Howell has become. John how can you even pretend to be objective when every story you write covers the city side of things, and never once mentions an opposing point of view. Shame on you!!! Did you get into the newspaper business so you could carry Scotty A's bags all over town??? Every week you continue to vomit rainbows all over the front page of your paper about how well things are going....it's insulting. If things are so great here, why is it Warwick never cracks any list of best places to live? As in not even top 200 places. We have a gigantic airport, train station, many hotels, bars food establishments...yet we never hear other places rave about how great our city is. I'll tell you why...because despite how the Beacon tries to SPIN IT every week our schools are mediocre, our taxes are too high, our roads are terrible. We aren't getting anything for the money we spend in this city, and that's where the Beacon ought to start directing it's attention. Why don't you start looking at some administrative salaries for the school dept? If we are such a "small, declining" school district than why is it we need to have directors of elementary and secondary education? Why do we continue to hire "math coaches" or "curriculum coordinators". Enough is enough around here, and until the Beacon decides to get some integrity back, I will call you guys out on every slanted story, every hit job, every "warwick is so wonderful" piece that John Howell throws up on the page. I've known you had lost your fastball several years ago John, I didn't know your journalistic integrity went with it.