Sen. Chuck Levesque responded immediately to my e-mail about proposed PUC cable access regulation changes, and followed up with the RI Senate Policy office, passing along this response a few minutes ago from Director Marie Ganim:

"There was such a strong adverse reaction to the proposed closure of the Portsmouth site," Ganim said in an e-mail, "That the Portsmouth/Bristol consolidation plan has been abandoned. We have this assurance from both the RIPBS and DPUC."

Thanks to Sen. Levesque for the quick followup, and I continue to urge our delegation to push the PUC in the direction of easier citizen input.