Gonzalo Cuervo is the guest this week on Political Roundtable.

With Nirva LaFortune, Brett Smiley and Michael Solomon, Cuervo is one of the four Democrats running to be the next mayor of Providence.

The election will be decided through a primary on September 13.

Topics covered in the interview include Providence’s under-funded pension plan, the city’s under-performing schools, and whether support for revitalizing the ‘Superman Building’ should be conditioned on additional parts of the proposal.

One of the state’s top political reporters, Ian Donnis joined The Public’s Radio in 2009. Ian has reported on Rhode Island politics since 1999, arriving in the state just two weeks before the FBI...