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• About That Status Quo

  —Anchor Rising

  Meeting with East Greenwich town officials, Sen. Leonidas Raptakis (D, Coventry, East Greenwich, Warwick, West Warwick) spoke against state mandates: "We have so many archaic statutes, contracts and mandates, unless we start deleting these mandates or give cities and towns..." [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 5:48am EST
  by Justin Katz

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• Leon Krier lecture (12/03)

  —GC:PVD | Greater City: Providence

  

  LEON KRIER
  Thursday, December 03, 2009
  Lecture & Book Signing
  5:30pm-7:30pm

  De Ciccio Family Auditorium (Salomon 101)
  Brown University Main Green
  Providence, RI 02903

  Leon Krier is one of the most influential architects and urbanists practicing in the world today. In lectures, writings and design projects, he [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 6:32pm EST
  by gcpvd

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• A Proper Progress

  —Anchor Rising

  Father John Kiley steps forward to defend the Western period of exploration as a time when we "began to also hope in progress," not in religion alone. Indeed, Fr. Kiley credits the likes of Christopher Columbus and Leonardo de Vinci... [...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:45pm EST
  by Justin Katz

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• Sen. Raptakis files Inspector General bill (again)

  —Rhode Island's Future

  

   

  State Senator Leo Raptakis is again filing his Inspector General legislation (his previous bill floundered in the Senate Finance Committee).  Raptakis justifies this legislation as follows:

  “The fact that $75 million in taxpayer funds were lost in a sinkhole of corruption and mismanagement at the Central [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:18pm EST
  

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