The Meeting That Moved On Without Her
What I Saw Between a Burned Doorway and a Governance Committee Table Governance Committee Meeting, 5:30 p.m., November 17, 2025, RIOC Operations Office, 680 Main Street
The smoke had thinned by November seventeenth, but it still clung to my coat and the back of my throat. Two nights earlier, fire trucks had crowded the rear of the Landings, their lights bouncing off brick and glass. The flames were gone. The smell remained.
