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iandonnis.bsky.social
.@PVDMayor tells reporters a person of interest in yesterday’s shooting at @BrownUniversity has been detained
December 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
kennyuong.bsky.social
Omg lol @pvdmayor just removed this story repost!! Thank goodness I took a screenshot tho!!
kennyuong.bsky.social Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · Aug 1
Ummm… correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t campaign supporter posts be shared from the actual campaign account and not the official City of Providence mayor’s account? 🤔

On Instagram, there’s @pvdmayor (city account) & @smileyformayor (campaign account)
August 1, 2026 at 3:28 AM
pvdstreets.org
COMP PLAN SIGNED ✍️

Today @pvdmayor signed the City’s Comprehensive Plan, a document that will guide the city’s land use decision making for the next decade!
November 23, 2024 at 12:24 AM
kennyuong.bsky.social
Ummm… correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t campaign supporter posts be shared from the actual campaign account and not the official City of Providence mayor’s account? 🤔

On Instagram, there’s @pvdmayor (city account) & @smileyformayor (campaign account)
August 1, 2026 at 2:48 AM
iandonnis.bsky.social
PVDMayor says invisible police presence will be boosted tomorrow and the city is NOT encouraging people to skip church or other Sunday activities
December 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
thelinotypedaily.bsky.social
Thanks to all the citizens of Providence and visitors and organizers of @pvdfest for printing today’s edition of The Linotype Occasionally! @providenceact @firstworksri @pvdmayor please no more ice police collaboration!
September 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
steveahlquist.bsky.social
.@pvdmayor Smiley cares more about unborn gas stations and unborn polluting industries than he does about the health of your living, breathing children.
October 21, 2024 at 9:11 PM
iandonnis.bsky.social
PVDMayor Brett Smiley says an injured student he spoke with in the hospital told him doing an active shooter drill in HS helped them in the moment yesterday
December 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
elayne.bsky.social
Hey PVD frens, I'm hosting a meet & greet for @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social next week. If you would like to attend, DM me here & I'll put you on the list. #VOTE #PVDMAYOR
DAVID MORALES FOR PROVIDENCE MAYOR MEET DAVID MORALES, CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR OF PROVIDENCE HOSTED BY YOUR NEIGHBOR, ELAYNE BURKE Wednesday, Sept. 2 6:00pm at Meet David, hear his vision, and ask him questions!
August 25, 2026 at 5:11 PM
melthemartian.bsky.social
Smiley gave the people what they asked for: a mayor on TikTok.
pvdmayor post on Instagram: Communication is one of the most essential tools in ensuring that our city is ran well. Our responsibility to the people of Providence is to meet residents where they are, not expect them to come to us. The City of Providence is now live on TikTok.
July 25, 2026 at 11:59 AM
kennyuong.bsky.social
Why does Woonsocket keep voting for Jon Brien for State Representative?! The things coming out of his mouth are absolutely disgusting.

Woonsocket: you have an opportunity to vote this genocide denier out in November!!
It's NOT a genocide. YOU are an anti-Semite. You are a socialist lunatic who has never had a real job, a payroll, employed anyone, or had any real responsibility. I'd vote for @PVDMayor in an instant if | could & I'm NO leftie. PVD is UNSAFE with this snake oil salesman. In response to post by David Morales: If Brett Smiley can't be honest about a genocide, how can you trust him to be honest about our housing crisis, our schools, or protecting our immigrant neighbors?
August 5, 2026 at 3:23 AM
phileil.bsky.social
The city has certainly been out there doing a lot of work.

But I just don't see how it's possible that the Smiley administration has removed "tens of thousands of truck loads of snow" from Providence streets, as he's claiming on Instagram.

Words mean things?

www.instagram.com/p/DVUUxPwEXV...
A screenshot of Brett Smily talking and saying "We've removed tens of thousands of truckloads of snow." A post from @pvdmayor in Instagram that reads: After removing tens of thousands of truck loads of snow from our streets, the parking ban has been lifted. We still have more work to do, and the industrial snow removers we hired are hard at work alongside our DPW crews finishing the job, but I encourage you to come out tonight to support our small businesses. This has been a difficult winter for our entire community, but Providence came together and stepped up to help those who needed it most. If you or someone you know is unable to clear snow from your private property and needs help, or if you want to volunteer to help, visit https://www.providenceri.gov/snowstorm/
March 1, 2026 at 1:24 PM
kennyuong.bsky.social
Of course Moderates & Smiley supporters are stoking fear after I uploaded the video. 😪

Not gonna waste my time arguing with them.

What I’ll do is get involved in David’s campaign and share with voters why Providence deserves leadership that truly cares about them.

volunteer.davidmoralespvd.com
Colby @psychfugues X.com What we're all witnessing is a candidate who spreads disgusting messaging and who feels terrifyingly comfortable with others extremist views and behaviors. Public safety is a 2-way street and David's decidedly antagonistic, anti-law enforcement posture is not what anyone needs. Colby@psychfugues.3m David and his diminishing base of supporters are just reaching at this point. The choice is clear, @PVDMayor and continued progress w/public safety or@DavidMoralesPVD who'll undermine our LEOs and the safety of our vulnerable. @MillennialOther @TheStonesEG @ProvidenceRIPD
July 24, 2026 at 12:06 PM
stljoe02.bsky.social
Saturday December 13, 2025: To avoid misinformation, @cityofprov #Providence mayor Brett P. Smiley @PVDMayor asks the public to follow @CityofProv @ProvidenceRIPD @ProvidenceEMA for information about @BrownUniversity shooter still at large. #BrownUniversity #RhodeIsland #RI #Providence #FBI
December 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
lisc-ri.bsky.social
In Providence, we know home based child care is critical, that's why we partnered with @CityofProv and @PVDMayor to invest $1.5M in facilities expansion and improvement: www.lisc.org/rhode-island...
LISC and City of Providence Invests $1.5M in Child Care Facilities | LISC Rhode Island
The Early Learning Infrastructure Support Program, an initiative of the City of Providence in partnership with the LISC Rhode Island Child Care and Early Learning Facilities team, has invested more th...
www.lisc.org
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
steveahlquist.bsky.social
After days of denial, @PVDMayor Smiley admitted it was police officers at the unhoused encampment

"As we continued working to understand what occurred, we were made aware detectives had visited the location on an unrelated assignment..."

open.substack.com/pub/steveahl...
After days of denial, Mayor Smiley admits it was police officers at the unhoused encampment
"As we continued working to understand what occurred, we were made aware detectives had visited the location on an unrelated assignment..."
open.substack.com
December 7, 2023 at 12:47 AM
kennyuong.bsky.social
This is all going to cost $5M! Imagine what the city could do with that funding.

Not sure if Providence can allocate funding for RIPTA like how Philly did with SEPTA, but RIPTA just needs $4M to address their deficit & prevent service cuts from happening.

Letter from @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social:
"RI State Rep. David Morales @DavidMoralesPVD X.com The South Water Street bike lane was built for our families, cyclists, and neighbors who deserve safe and connected streets! Instead, @PVDMayor is trying to spend $5 million in federal and city funding to undo one of Providence's most widely supported infrastructure projects. Image shows letterhead from the State of Rhode Island House of Representatives with text, partially visible. Image also shows a person biking in the South Water Street protected bike lane with bollards, parked cars, and traffic in the background. 5:02 PM · 7/21/25 · 5K Views RE: South Water Street Plan Dear Green and Complete Streets Advisory Council, Our city is poised yet again to prioritize convenience over quality; expediency over public health and safety. Every time Providence makes progress in reclaiming streets and infrastructure for public good, we risk treating that progress not as a foundation to build upon, but as political capital to be bartered with. We moved a highway and created the I-95 District Park. We redesigned South Water Street and installed the city’s only protected southbound radial bikeway east of the river. These were intentional public goods, ends in themselves, and meaningful improvements to the safety and livability of our city. Families use the park. Cyclists rely on that lane. I know because many of them are my constituents! These are not just “amenities.” They are vital pieces of infrastructure and they save lives. Yet, the Smiley Administration continues to treat hard-won progress as expendable. The proposal to remove the South Water Street bike lane is not about safety. It’s not even about traffic. Afternoon backups rarely extend past Power Street. And alternative routes like Dyer and Point exist and remain underutilized. This isn’t policy grounded in evidence. Rather it is the politics of expediency. This project caters to a small group of drivers and commercial interests who view bike infrastructure through a narrow, self-serving lens. Whether talk show hosts or business owners, their loudest argument is inconvenience and this is also how our Mayor frames it. But why should “convenience” be more important than safety, access, and equity? True leadership means standing with our neighbors, including children, cyclists, and mobility device users, who are navigating dangerous streets in a city that still fails to prioritize their safety. It is a fact that a distracted driver in a half-ton truck poses a far greater danger to public safety than a protected bike lane poses to traffic flow. We all…" “…know this. That’s why hundreds of neighbors turned out to oppose the removal. The administration listened, but not with any intention of being moved. And the proposed solution? Moving the bike path into the park marks no improvement at all. It narrows green space, removes the barrier between families and fast-moving traffic, and encourages higher car speeds through a corridor that should only be made safer. We need to ensure our investments in road infrastructure prioritize safety and expand active transportation. Whether wasting $750k to remove the old lane or $4.4 million to rebuild the lane 12 feet closer to the river, spending public dollars to undo one of the most widely supported active transportation projects in the city is an indefensible use of limited funds. At the heart of this is the city’s ongoing failure to invest in a complete and connected bike network. South Water Street lacks connections on either end. That is not an argument for removal: it is a call to complete the work! I strongly support the Broadway protected bike lane, because it connects to key neighborhoods like Downtown, Olneyville, and even Valley, creating a true network. The same must be done here. With connections to the East Bay Bike Path, College Hill, and Kennedy Plaza, South Water Street could continue to thrive as a model corridor. I urge this body to stand to its purpose set forth in the Green and Complete Streets Ordinance. To allow this removal to proceed is to endorse a future where expediency trumps equity, and public input is treated as a formality rather than a mandate. Providence deserves better. Let’s build on our progress, not bulldoze it. Sincerely, State Representative David Morales House District 7 – Providence"
September 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
kennyuong.bsky.social
That’s why many of us thought this could be an ethics violation, since we assumed his @pvdmayor account was only meant to share updates from his administration, not to campaign for re-election.
August 1, 2026 at 2:54 PM
kennyuong.bsky.social
When Smiley became mayor, he should’ve renamed his account to @brettsmileypvd, like how his predecessor used @jorgeoelorza to post updates during his term. Instead, Smiley renamed his account @pvdmayor, making it seem like the account belongs to the mayor’s office rather than to the Smiley admin.😪
kennyuong.bsky.social Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · Aug 1
Ummm… correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t campaign supporter posts be shared from the actual campaign account and not the official City of Providence mayor’s account? 🤔

On Instagram, there’s @pvdmayor (city account) & @smileyformayor (campaign account)
August 1, 2026 at 2:48 PM
9librariespvd.bsky.social
Meet the candidates for #PVDmayor, learn about the issues at three #PVD debates, presented by
@9librariespvd.bsky.social and League of Women Voters PVD. Mt. Pleasant Library on July 20, Rochambeau on July 23 and S. Providence on August, 4 all 6pm-7:30pm. All live-streamed. clpvd.org/pvdmayor26/
Providence skyline and names and images of four candidates, plus details of three events.
July 13, 2026 at 6:29 PM
pvdnoiseproject.bsky.social
Quiet Clean RI has finally echoed our criticism of the @PVDCityCouncil.bsky.social 2025 #leafblower ordinance as *far* too slow to take effect. They blame #PVDMayor Smiley for “forcing a last-minute revision” that delayed action, but offer no evidence. Tell us more, QCRI / @SueAnderbois.bsky.social.
June 25, 2026 at 5:49 PM
steveahlquist.bsky.social
Hi Patricia,

@PVDMayor Smiley and Josh Estrella both told me that my questions are being worked on.

Not sure why this is taking so long, they are fairly simple questions.

Steve
December 11, 2023 at 3:30 PM
steveahlquist.bsky.social
Aug 7th, at 9am, at the Charles St Tent Encampment at 450 Charles St in Providence, there will be a protest against the forced removal of the unhoused population there.

Contact @PVDMayor and demand a policy of not clearing encampments before there is adequate shelter provided.
August 6, 2023 at 3:24 PM
The view from City Hall w/mayors @gtbynum (Tulsa), @stevenlouisreed (Montgomery, AL), @PVDMayor Brett Smiley (Providence) July 18. 12:15 pm @BrookingsInst Hutchins Center Municipal Finance Conference. In-person and live-streamed. www.brookings.edu/events/13th-... #econsky
13th annual Municipal Finance Conference | Brookings
www.brookings.edu
July 10, 2024 at 1:05 PM
rhodeislandcurrent.com
Providence has maintained the above-average credit rating it received last year, @PVDMayor Brett Smiley announced Thursday. The city’s upcoming $125 million bond issue to improve three elementary schools is rated even higher. By @OhNoCastro

rhodeislandcurrent.com/briefs/provide…
Providence A3 bond rating holds steady ahead of school bond issue • Rhode Island Current
The city of Providence has maintained the above-average credit rating it received last year, Mayor Brett Smiley announced Thursday. The city’s upcoming $125 million bond issue to improve three elementary schools is rated even higher.
rhodeislandcurrent.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:43 AM