While the CBN/RI Senior Center remains closed by the COVID surge, the Carter Burden Network pitches in, lining up easy access online programs. Here’s what’s on tap for this week…

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You Can FOIL* It

When information is acknowledged, delayed, and withheld until it no longer matters, transparency becomes a process, not a right

Theo Gobblevelt Apr 24, 2026

On April 15, at the Steam Plant Demolition Town Hall, a simple exchange revealed something far more consequential than anything formally presented that evening.

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