Now comes hard part as towns, cities clean balance sheets

ON TRIAL: Former Providence Mayor Angel Taveras testifies in Superior Court April 21 about changes to the city's pension program. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO
ON TRIAL: Former Providence Mayor Angel Taveras testifies in Superior Court April 21 about changes to the city's pension program. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Then-General Treasurer Gina M. Raimondo, then-Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee and the General Assembly did a difficult and courageous thing in 2011 when they faced the state’s pension crisis head on. Would that someone would step forward to tackle a similar and potentially more devastating problem facing Rhode Island’s towns and cities. Based on the most

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