Limit access to part of Wickenden Street for a movie shoot , sure, but obstruct my peregrinations to Pizza Marvin at your peril. Welcome back to my Friday column. You can follow me through the week on Bluesky , threads and X . Here we go.

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1. STORY OF THE WEEK: Debate over the future of RIPTA is providing fireworks in an otherwise quiet stretch of summer in the Ocean State. State Rep. Julie Casimiro (D-North Kingstown) took aim at Gov. Dan McKee with an op-ed this week , arguing that McKee “is no friend of RIPTA.” Casimiro cites how it was the General Assembly, not the governor, that added $15 million to help RIPTA this year, and how the legislature last year boosted by $5 million the $10 mil

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