From The Rhode Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union: Attorneys for the R.I. Center for Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union of RI today announced an interim settlement in a lawsuit filed last month challenging the threatened evictions of tenants for associating with Reclaim RI, a non-profit agency that organizes tenants to vindicate their rights to[Read More…]
Part 1! Next Up? Wildenhain & Grebien? And This. Weeks. City. Council. Meeting! Apparently, the honeymoon is over. We’ve received a dozen or so calls re: interpersonal issues between Chief Financial Officer Anthony Voccio, the recent hire from the Providence School Department and folks throughout the school district. More alarming? What appears to be the inability of School Committee[Read More…]
In a move that echoed last week’s demands by Senate Republican Leadership, Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss, took a dim view on both the timing, and the “slap on the wrist” nature of this today’s attacks on Iranian backed targets. From The Office of Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss: U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., the highest-ranking Republican on the[Read More…]
From The Office of United States Senator Jack Reed: Today, United States military forces conducted dozens of airstrikes against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia groups in Syria and Iraq. The U.S. strikes were carried out in response to an unmanned aerial drone attack in northeast Jordan that killed three U.S. servicemembers[Read More…]
The Plaintiffs in McKee V. Southwell have taken their battle back to the Courts … Filing to Hold the State of Rhode Island Department of Health, under the legal direction of $108K/Year Interim Legal Honcho Julia Wyman, ss the State of Rhode Island Department of Health failed to respond to their Attorney Gregory Piccirilli’s request to explain rogue[Read More…]
On January 25, the Biden Administration tripled down on promoting “Safe Storage of Firearms” with First Lady Jill Biden, US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, & White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention Director Stef Feldman hosting a town hall, alongside of school principals at the White House, in order to “elevate the importance of safe firearms storage and emphasize[Read More…]
Repudiation is the watchword in Pawtucket City Hall as the Office of the Rhode Island Attorney General found the Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien-led Charter Review Commission … Most say founded as an act of political retribution against an independent Pawtucket School Committee … guilty of two outright violations of the Rhode Island Open Meetings Act, and, in the absence[Read More…]
The verdict, as it was, was in. After a protracted, multi-year court battle, in a landmark settlement, the State of Rhode Island agreed to the terms of Parents United, in the case of Southwell v. McKee. To simplify? The State of Rhode Island agreed to hold public hearings in the event of a declared medical emergency, prior to issuing[Read More…]
From Human Rights Watch: Iran: 2 Detainees Executed, 11 Await Imminent Execution Authorities Targeting Ethnic Minorities in Death Penalty Spree Iranian authorities have recently escalated executions at an alarming rate, including those of Farhad Salimi and Mohammed Ghobadlou on January 23, with at least 11 people at imminent risk, many of them from minority communities, Human Rights Watch said today.At least 11 prisoners[Read More…]
From The Rhode Island Chapter of The American Civil Liberties Union: (ACLU Report at Bottom of Page) The ACLU of Rhode Island released a report today detailing the written public comment policies of every city and town council and school committee across the state, finding that, while most council and committee meetings include at least some time for public comment,[Read More…]
Cranston Mayor Schedules Presser to Challenge City Council Chair … Retribution? or Good Governance? He’s baaaack! Although, truth be told, did he ever really go away? Now Former Woonsocket City Council Chair John Ward made good on his promise to stay involved in Woonsocket affairs … albeit as a private citizen, today, with the release of his formal objection to the “reclassification” of Woonsocket’s RISE Academy from Mayoral Academy to Charter School status. Citing,[Read More…]
In a scheduling move that has even the most cynical Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) observer shaking their head, the Agenda for the influential Council on Elementary & Secondary Education was posted on 5:20 this evening (Friday) to include a review of the controversial application to transition Woonsocket based RISE Mayoral Academy to Charter School status. The Hearing will[Read More…]
Sudan: One Year of Atrocities Requires New Global Approach Investigations into Deliberate Aid Obstruction, War Crimes Needed As global and regional leaders meet in Paris to spotlight Sudan and mark the one-year anniversary of the country’s brutal conflict between Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF), they should make clear that those responsible for ongoing atrocities and other[Read More…]
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