Guest column: The Bond is Dead – Long Live the Farm

Casey Farmby Stu Nunnery, Director, RICAPE

State business leaders like to point to our quality of life as a pillar of economic development. They understand that part of what will attract the high paying jobs and cutting edge industries they covet are those natural and historic assets that make us who we are.

Remember that.

The Rhode Island House Finance Committee has killed an important bond issue and we are about to run out of money to preserve farmland and open space. The budget deficit will be blamed but simply, some members of the assembly no longer believe that agriculture’s contribution to the State is enough to merit the investment.

Not enough?

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