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"Transparency is the new objectivity"

— David Weinberger

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Portsmouth

Portsmouth Caps Big-Box Retail!
Read about the ad-hoc moratorium committee's final meeting
Read about anti-sprawl activist Stacy Mitchell's talk in Portsmouth
Read about the Town Council's moratorium meeting
Visit Preserve Portsmouth.org
Download Portsmouth's Design Review Guidelines (328K PDF)
Learn more about Portsmouth's Zoning Ordinances

John is a science fiction writer and citizen journalist covering Portsmouth, Rhode Island news and politics at his hyperlocal blog hard deadlines. He is currently running as a Democrat for the Portsmouth School Committee.

Last time I redesigned this site — just a year ago — it went from crufty early-90s tables to dhtml menus and CSS. In a frighteningly short time, the Web has moved on, and even this was looking a bit long of tooth. (It also broke Firefox in spectacular fashion. Sigh.) Now, to facilitate on-the-fly updating, I've moved to a content management system leveraging the open source stack (Apache, MySQL, and php) and the awesome Drupal.

Hey, it ain't an IT project if you don't say "leveraging" somewhere. :)

The Town Council voted to decimate our schools. We have two weeks to gather signatures for a financial referendum election to restore funding. Learn more at Save Our Schools.