In the wake of my analysis of the Chafee campaign for Governor, a couple of interesting points on Kathy Gregg's blog post on the Chafee campaign:
1. Chafee released a poll. Pundits know that the only reason a candidate releases a poll is to show legitimacy in a race. [...]
Earlier this week, I canceled my subscription to the Providence Journal. I did this for a number of reasons. One reason, which should be self evident in the modern age: why should I pay for something that I can get for free? Seems silly to me.
But [...]
Channel 12 says that the center of gravity of the New England mob is about to shift back to Boston. The wonderfully sensationalistic video can be viewed here.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - We’ve learned a major shift in power is happening right now inside the Patriarca [...]
Drench - the world's simplest flash game
There are no instructions, but the premise really is simple: Turn the entire board any one color within a set number of moves. Begin at the upper left square and click one of the colors on the right; all [...]
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Intersecting swirling trails left by the earlier passage of dust devils across sand dunes, as they lifted lighter reddish-pink dust and exposed the darker material below. Also visible are darker slope streaks along dune edges, formed by a process which is still [...]
Can’t complain. At least there’s eggs at the Liberty Elm Diner, with a sculpture show to feed the aesthetic sense.
It’s nice to have a place to take a break. [...] In search of low-hanging fruit in operational consolidation, the school committees of Portsmouth, Middletown, and Newport will be meeting for a joint workshop on Monday, Nov. 9 at 7pm in the Oliphant School in Middletown. On the agenda:
AGENDA
I. Discussion of Areas For Potential Collaboration or Regionalization
Island wide payroll system
[...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- District Court Judge Frank J. Cenerini on Friday ordered Michael J. Patino, 27, accused of fatally injuring 6-year-old Marco Nieves of Cranston, held without bail at the Adult Correctional Institutions pending trial, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch said in a news release.
Marco died of an internal [...]
LINCOLN, R.I. -- Police, prosecutors and highway officials offered some sobering statistics Friday at a rest area on Route 295 in a press conference they called to urge motorists to drive safely, wear seatbelts, pay attention and don't drive drunk.
With just less than two months to go in 2009, 57' [...]
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - Two-time Oscar-nominated actor James Woods has sued Kent Hospital in Warwick over the 2006 death of his younger brother.
Woods on Friday declined to discuss the lawsuit in detail, but told The Associated Press he wants "justice" for his brother, Michael, who was 49 when he [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Superior Court jury has convicted Roger Morin, 49, of 300 Front St., Pawtucket, of child molestation in a case dating to 20 years ago, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch said in a news release Friday.
The jury cleared Morin of a second charge of child molestation. The [...]
The Box Office on Harris Avenue is well underway. Check out the photos taken today above. And visit The Box Office’s website for more info.
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[...]There has been near unanimous support, in the media, for a law making its way through Congress that would protect journalists from revealing confidential sources. And this scribe is inclined to cheer on the bill. But there's an interesting contrary view at Slate from Jack Shafer who notes that the proposed law is [...]
In 1660, Mary Dyer was hanged on Boston Common. Her crime? Being a Quaker. Her execution was part of a tragic and shameful chapter in our nation's history. So why is there a statue of her in front of the Massachusetts State Capitol east wing? Proponents of removing "Providence Plantations" [...]
By Maria Armental
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Interfaith leaders gathered at a news conference Friday at the Jewish Community Center to defend Rhode Island's Muslim community in the aftermath of the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas.
The Rev. Donald Anderson, executive minister of the Rhode Island State [...]
CENTRAL FALLS, RI -- George L. Ortiz Jr., who was named interim director of the advocacy organization Progreso Latino in late September, has resigned.
A statement released Friday announcing Ortiz's departure, is dated Nov. 5.
Ortiz wrote in a letter to the board of directors, "My admiration for the" [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. Sen. Jack Reed will be among the panelists Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation when the group discusses the Fort Hood shootings and the elections this week.
Reed will be joined at 10:30 a.m. on WPRI-TV by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, a member of the [...]
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Woonsocket-based Summer Infant Inc. has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit, the consumer goods maker disclosed Friday in a federal regulatory filing.
The complaint filed with the Circuit Court for Cook County, Ill., alleges that Summer Infant failed to properly warn consumers that signals from its [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Drivers heading south on Route 95 in Providence will face a new traffic pattern this weekend.
Starting Friday night, the two-lane ramp for Exit 20 will be closed to make way for a new, temporary ramp about 1,000 feet south of its current location. The temporary ramp [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island College will open a new Veterans Resource Center on its east campus that will serve as a clearinghouse of information for all student veterans and and their families. The opening will take place on Monday at 3 p.m. in Building 5.
Navigating a college campus can [...]
The new unemployment numbers are out, and they’re not very pleasing…
The national unemployment rate jumped higher than expected in October, reaching a 26-year high at 10.2 percent.
Another 190,000 jobs were lost last month. The administration and economists predicted the unemployment rate would eventually rise above [...]
By W. Zachary Malinowski
Journal Staff Writer
LINCOLN, R.I. -- A Massachusetts man with a long, violent criminal record was shot in the face when he tussled with an undercover state police detective during a sting at Lincoln Woods State Park early Friday afternoon, said Col. Brendan P. Doherty.
Arjusz Roszkowski, 26, [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for robbing one bank and attempting to rob another.
Craig Shacklock was sentenced Friday to 92 months in federal prison.
The 52-year-old Providence man pleaded guilty in August to robbing a teller at a [...]
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- The Police identified the 53-year-old man who was apparently struck and killed by a train early today as Alan Bulris.
Bulris was homeless, according to the police.
Maj. Arthur Martins of the Pawtucket Police said that an Amtrak maintenance crew saw Bulris' body around 12:30 a.m. in the' [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- City police have announced that a man was found mortally wounded on Aldrich Street early Friday.
Police withheld the victim's name pending notification of next of kin. They gave his age as 26, and said he lived at 18 Burnside St.
Officers were called to Broad and Aldrich Streets [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Interfaith leaders in Rhode Island have called a press conference Friday afternoon to speak against a possible backlash against area Muslims in the aftermath of the Fort Hood shootings in Texas.
Several news agencies have reported that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a military psychiatrist suspected of [...]
Video: Police seize large quantity of marijuana in Woonsocket
By Tatiana Pina
Journal Staff Writer
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- In the past two days, the Woonsocket Police arrested people from two families who they said were selling marijuana, and confiscated 145 pounds of marijuana with a street value of about $145,000.
Two [...]
