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Is a part-time General Assembly still right for Rhode Island?

ON THE FENCE: Sen. Kendra Anderson, D-Warwick, is a freshman lawmaker and school teacher who loves all the research she needs to do on legislation. But she also thinks part-time lawmakers could do a better job if they had more time.  / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
ON THE FENCE: Sen. Kendra Anderson, D-Warwick, is a freshman lawmaker and school teacher who loves all the research she needs to do on legislation. But she also thinks part-time lawmakers could do a better job if they had more time. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

As anyone who has witnessed the mad scramble of legislative activity at the end of each year’s General Assembly session can attest, it is hard to come away not thinking, there’s got to be a better way. Months of behind-the-scenes political maneuvering and deal-making often comes to a head in the session’s waning days. And

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