$45.5m in public funds should pay for housing and education in Pawtucket, not recreation, RI lawmaker says

 $45.5m in public funds should pay for housing and education in Pawtucket, not recreation, RI lawmaker says

On the Rhode Island Report podcast, the Pawtucket Democrat questioned whether the city and the state should be promising to help pay for the Tidewater Landing soccer stadium

In Pawtucket, especially with homelessness, we have people under the bridge I was going to visit who were evicted from housing, she said. When were talking about our resources and our public money, I…