Article: COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOMBARDI RELEASES CONTENTS OF HIS EXCHANGE OF CORRESPONDENCE WITH PHILANTHROPIST BUFFETT

The city council of Providence issued the following press release: Providence City Council President John J. Lombardi today released the contents of his recent exchange of correspondence with philanthropist Warren Buffett."On June 26, I wrote to Mr. Buffett to make him aware of what I termed the 'all but irreversible decay of [Providence's public school buildings],' and to solicit, with all due deference to protocol, his financial support of efforts to remedy the situation," said Council President Lombardi. "I did so in full knowledge of his recent gifts to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and to four additional, similar entities, and with no illusions as to the likelihood of an ...

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