Woonsocket Police Harass Homeless Food/Narcan Distribution/Community Thanksgiving Celebration!
Civil Liberties
Rhode Island Based “Legal Insurrection Foundation” Files Complaint With US Department Of Education RE: Educator of Color Loan Forgiveness Program
Legal Insurrection Foundation, a Rhode Island based Non-Profit organized “to educate and inform the public on legal, historical, economic, academic, and cultural issues related to the Constitution, liberty, and world events has filed a Federal Civil Rights Complaint with the United States Department of Education’s Office For Civil Rights related to the Providence Public School Department’s “Educator of Color Loan[Read More…]
Providence Public Schools Hosts Annual School Choice Fair November 17 (Spanish Translation Inside)
Opportunity for families of current Pre-K, 5th Grade, and 8th grade students From The Providence Public School District (PPSD): This week, the Providence Public School District (PPSD) will host its annual School Choice Fair for rising kindergartners, rising sixth graders, and rising ninth graders, to provide all families a chance to learn about the different schools in PPSD.[Read More…]
Sign Gate! The Halloween Edition! The Sign Is Re Lit Flouting Municipal Ordinances!
Glocester Municipal Sign Ordinance Ordinance 350-27 A. & C. Cited By Glocester Municipal Zoning Official/Building Inspector Ken Johnson Sign Gate! The Glocester RI Edition! Originally set up as a political sign, the sign ignores multiple town ordinances, at a particularly unsafe stretch of roadway. Irony? Town Council Members installed the sign, (in spite of rules They. Enforce. Then, after[Read More…]
“SignGate” – Controversy Erupts in Glocester, Rhode Island!
Controversy abounds in Glocester, RI over questions about the legality of an electronic campaign sign placed on Rt. 44, which has seen multiple serious car accidents over the last few weeks, including one tragic fatality. The concern was first raised by Laurie Gaddis Barrett on the town Facebook group, questioning whether the sign placement was properly permitted: The group[Read More…]
Field O’ Spin: Pawtucket Mayor Issues Statement On City & Council Approve Compromise that Saves Morley Field & Allows 450 Job Distribution Center to Move Forward
Editorial Note: When the principal City Council opponent, Councilman Clovis Gregor, announces publicly that he was not party to, or consulted in any “compromise”, one should question the veracity of the Mayor’s Statement. From The Office Of Mayor Don Grebien: On October 19, 2022, the Pawtucket City Council approved a compromise that saves a large original portion of Morley Field[Read More…]
Senate Minority Caucus Sends Letter To Rhode Island Department Of Education (RIDE) Calling For Immediate Oversight Hearing
Senator Jessica De La Cruz, amplifying the new, assertive tone of the Senate Republican Caucus that has emerged since her election as Senator Minority Leader earlier this year, is again, in conjunction with the Senate Republican Caucus, demanding accountability, in this case, regarding the “Missing” RICAS Scores from The Rhode Island Department of Education. Embracing the oversight role that is[Read More…]
The Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence Issues Statewide Endorsements!
Focusing on “State Wide Elections” the RICAGV met with reporters on October 11, at the Non Violence Institute in Providence, Rhode Island, to announce, and hear from, their endorsees … including Governor Dan McKee, Lt Governor Sabina Matos, Former Central Falls Mayor, and General Treasurer Endorsee James Diossa, Secretary of State Endorsee Representative Greg Amore, & Mayor Elect Brett Smiley.[Read More…]
OP ED: OUR SILENT ATTORNEY GENERAL – BY AUTHOR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR RHODE ISLAND ATTORNEY GENERAL CHAS CALENDA
Every race for a general officer position in Rhode Island will have some kind of debate this year—except one: the race for Attorney General. Some debates will be more robust than others, but at least the nominees will have the chance to challenge and respond to their opponents in real time; thus providing Rhode Island voters a meaningful[Read More…]
The Woonsocket City Council vs. Woonsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt
Embattled Woonsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt survives another day. An appeal to The Rhode Island Supreme Court (We await the RI Supreme Court written decision) postponed a formal City Council meeting to hear charges, and hold a subsequent vote for her removal. The charges levied by the Woonsocket City Council are astonishing: Listed below: The formal complaint .. supporting documentation[Read More…]
Comments