David Cicilline: “It is also damaging, if you think about it, whether you want, like I do, to find things we can do with allies consistent…”

You can’t have a statewide school funding system that is fair to everyone — that’s equitable, that covers all costs of education, so that every student, no matter where they live, is treated the same, and every taxpayer treated the same —…

We must remember that child abduction is child abuse and it has devastating emotional, psychological, and even physical consequences for both abducted children and their families left behind.

The future economic prosperity of our state is directly dependent on our ability to get this right.

Secretly, I was always hoping I would be surprised it would move really quickly, but as a practical matter, I knew that was not the case.