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Raimondo Pitching Ethics Reforms AS MUCH AS HE’S A STAND-UP GUY $260 IN COUPON Billy Crystal will be on his feet a lot at PPAC Thursday night. F1 SAVINGS INSIDE Sunday, March 19, 2017 Vol. CXXXII, No. 11providencejournal.com © 2017 Published daily since 1829 $3.50 STATE HOUSE Faster than anywhere in the U.S., salt marshes in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are disintegrating. The scientist who has studied these wellsprings of life for 17 years says the loss ‘is just stunning.’ Raimondo Losing ground pitching ethics reforms Seeks campaign-fi nance audits, line-item veto By Patrick Anderson Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE — Gov- ernor Gina Raimondo is putting past lawmaker misdeeds and the power Raimondo Fox of the legislature in the spotlight again with gov- Inside ernment-reform proposals to be introduced this week. The governor makes her case. The governor proposes A15 routine audits of cam- paign-finance accounts, Scientist Kenny Raposa uses a surface elevation table (SET) device to gauge growth at Nag Marsh on Prudence Island. His goal is to deter- disqualification of candi- Friday. “I think the vast mine whether marshes are gaining altitude, key to survival against rising seas. [THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL/BOB BREIDENBACH] dates who owe campaign majority of public servants fines, and arming the gov- are honest and ethi- By Alex Kuffner R.I. marshes among most vulnerable in U.S. ernor with line-item veto cal.... So I say strengthen Journal Staff Writer power over spending bills. the rules and strengthen Researchers have found salt marshes in New England to be “The reason to do this is enforcement so that we PRUDENCE ISLAND — Kenny the most endangered in the country due to rising sea levels. Rhode Islanders deserve can find these bad actors Raposa never considered himself Salt marshes at 16 Marsh elevation Overall resilience confidence in their gov- sooner and also deter bad a climate-change guy. sites were scored on ernment,” Raimondo told Marsh growth rate High SEE RAIMONDO, A12 It’s not that he didn’t believe their ability to resist The Journal in an interview Sediment supply Medium that the planet was warming. It’s sea level rise. just that as a scientist studying Resilience is judged Tidal range Low salt marshes on Prudence Island, by these categories: Sea level rise Very low HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS it wasn’t part of his research. But that changed five years ago Padilla Great Bay, N.H. when he started going through a Bay, Wash. Waquoit Bay, Mass. Ortiz to headline decade’s worth of his data on two South Narragansett Bay, R.I. of the most common marsh plants Slough, Ore. Hudson River, N.Y. and noticed an unmistakable trend San Francisco Dover, Del. All-State banquet in the numbers: the species that Bay, Calif. Chesapeake Bay, Md. PROVIDENCE — can withstand frequent flooding Elkhorn Masonboro Isl., N.C. Slough, Calif. Three-time World Series was thriving while the one that North Inlet-Winyah champion, 10-time Major adapted only to intermittent inun- Tijuana Bay, S.C. River, Calif. League Baseball All-Star dation was dwindling. ACE Basin, S.C. and 2013 World Series It was the first definitive proof Grand Bay, Miss. MVP David “Big Papi” for Raposa that the increasing pace Ortiz will be the guest of sea-level rise was pushing more Ortiz speaker at the second and more water onto the island’s SOURCE: National Estuarine Research Reserve Association annual All-State Rhode marshes, dramatically changing and coach of the year. The THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL Island High School Sports the composition of their vegeta- event will be held at the Awards banquet on June tion in the near term and auguring Rhode Island Conven- Online 21. their demise in the long term. tion Center on June 21 The event celebrates “I wasn’t even looking for ■ Compare a square-meter plot of Coggeshall Marsh in 2011 and 2016 from 6-9 p.m. First- and the accomplishments of these changes. I just saw them in ■ Explore an interactive graphic: One marsh grass thrives as second-team All-State The Providence Journal’s the data,” says Raposa, research another falters athletes will receive a All-State athletes, as ■ Watch a video of scientist Kenny Raposa at work on Prudence letter with instructions well as names the overall Island. Find these and more providencejournal.com on how to claim their free SEE MARSHES, A11 male and female athletes of the year in each sport, SEE ORTIZ, A2 PASSAGES Hundreds celebrate twins’ joyous lives Service honors sisters Haley’s “live-life-to-the- “womb mates” and made Nathan Haley. fullest” style. international news when The surviving sibling, who found happiness Remembered by hundreds they died together March 4 younger sister Mary Jacobs, everywhere together in a memorial service at Cen- after a Friday night sisters’ 89, who went out with them tral Congregational Church, date to the Lobster Pot in that night, was silent at the By Alisha A. Pina the twins, daughters of the Bristol. One fell, the other service. The three were often Journal Staff Writer late Louise Gibbs Young came to help and fell herself called “the girls.” and L. Douglas Young, didn’t and the frigid cold took them “They were ‘the girls,’ PROVIDENCE — Qualita- consider anyone a stranger both in the night. Haley’s and they were a fixture in tive, not quantitative. and found joy in family, each Barrington neighbor found many local establishments Family members prepare for Saturday’s memorial service at Central Con- The phrase used by the another, dining out, adven- them in the morning. — an institution well known gregational Church in Providence honoring 97-year-old twins Jean Haley, Rev. Rebecca L. Spencer on tures — and even everyday The two were 97 years, and loved by so many,” said pictured at left, and Martha Williams, right, who died two weekends ago Saturday embodied the late tasks and household chores. four months and one day old, when both fell outside Jean’s home in Barrington. [THE PROVIDENCE JOUR- Martha Williams and Jean They called each other calculated Haley’s grandson SEE MEMORIAL, A6 NAL/GLENN OSMUNDSON] TODAY MON TUE Arts Calendar ...F5 Editorial ......... A14 More than a fl y in this ointment Books ................F3 Lotteries .......... C6 Business .......... B1 Movies ..............F6 Mark Patinkin is caught in the middle when Classifi ed . D11, E5 Obituaries ........ B5 41°/28° 50°/33° 51°/30° his high-deductible health plan runs into Crossword........ E3 Television ......... E4 pharmaceutical price-gouging. A4 Complete forecast, B8 Home delivery: 401-277-7600 Sunday A10 Sunday, March 19, 2017 | PROVIDENCE JOURNAL | providencejournal.com Color-coded guide to a habitat under siege By Alex Kuffner The reserve has generated could be an important tool in Journal Staff Writer these maps for the entire determining which marshes coastline of Rhode Island are degrading fastest and PRUDENCE ISLAND — The to better understand how which stand the best chance image on Robin Weber’s the mixture of plants in salt of surviving higher seas. The computer screen is divided marshes is changing as sea maps will also help identify into two panels. levels rise. areas where marshes could On the left side is a high- The mapping program dif- endure by moving inland. resolution aerial photograph ferentiates between plant Weber zooms the map out of Nag Pond and surround- species based on how they and points out an area of low, ing marshland on Prudence reflect light. It then catego- undeveloped ground on the Island. And on the right is rizes them based on these east side of Prudence Island. something that looks like unique spectral signatures. She has been eyeing it as a abstract art — a splotch of The technology isn’t new, but place that could convert to blue here and a dab of red the reserve is the first to use it marshland with some human there. for mapping marshes. intervention. It’s the result after the The effort is being directed If a culvert were installed aerial photo has been run by Kenneth B. Raposa, under a road that separates through a computer program research coordinator at the the land from the Bay, it that color-codes the different reserve, and Weber. would allow saltwater to types of plant communities She has just finished the set move in and out and poten- that grow on the marsh. The of maps using photos taken in tially create a marsh of up to variety form of smooth cord- 2012 that will serve as a base- a dozen acres. grass is shaded purple. The line to track future changes. It sounds promising, but long variety is tan. Freshwa- And she hopes this year to then Weber taps her finger on ter phragmites are green. finish maps using photos the photo of the 30-plus-acre “And these are dieback from 2016 so researchers can marsh around Nag Pond. areas,” says Weber, stew- start making comparisons. “It certainly doesn’t replace ardship coordinator for the New sets would follow every this,” she says. Narragansett Bay National three or four years. Estuarine Research Reserve, By shedding light on how — akuffner@providence- The Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is using a computer program to map the entire pointing to mudflats in different species of plants fare journal.com coastline of Rhode Island to assess how the mixture of plants in salt marshes is changing as sea levels rise. yellow. as conditions shift, the maps (401) 277-7457 [THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL/BOB BREIDENBACH] WASHINGTON, D.C. TRUMP BUDGET PROPOSAL Cherry blossoms ravaged by weather NOAA’s satellites left untouched Budget plan (Lightning is a good indica- tor of a hurricane’s future maintains funding intensity.) because they collect The GOES-16 satellite ‘critical weather data’ floating 22,300 miles above Earth is the first of four new By Brian K.
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