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You would hope the answer is "Yes!" Alternate plans for the future of the library are due to be unveiled at City Hall by a new group at 5:30 this evening. From the Library Reform Group blog : At 5:30 p.m. on Monday, January 5, representatives...
Providence City Solicitor Joseph Fernandez, whose candidacy for AG in 2010 was first reported here , has a fundraiser set for Monday: Host Committee Kim Ahern, Mary Kim Arnold, Chris Blazejewski, Pat Crowley, Kas DeCarvalho, Jorge Elorza, Devin Driscoll...
UPDATE: Cicilline responds . In interviews, the mayor is disputing Bizzacco's account. Here's how Malinowski describes it: This afternoon, Cicilline met with a reporter in his City Hall office and vehemently denied Bizzacco's recollection...
The introduction of traffic light cameras around Providence a few years back has added a new and additionally entertaining dimension to proceedings with Judge Frank "Caught in Providence" Caprio and his colleagues in municipal court in Providence...
Steven M Costantino , chairman of the powerful House Finance Committee -- and someone who will remain in the spotlight amid RI's ongoing budget woes -- has for some time been a potential Providence mayoral candidate for 2010. Costantino joined Tim...
From City Hall: PROVIDENCE – Mayor David N. Cicilline today urged the Providence City Council take action on two proposed pension ordinances that have been pending before the Council for nearly two months. “Every week they remain stalled is an insult...
I agree with Matt and with David Carroll , who takes up the topic today in a ProJo op-ed: as Rhode Island struggles with joblessness, Providence's Working Waterfront should be stregthened, not weakened. Today, the piers and wharves of the Providence...
Yesterday, I reported on how all six city unions plan to picket this evening's young professionals' fundraiser for Providence Mayor David Cicilline. Today, Matt, a member of the host committee for the event, has a post explaining why he won't...
UPDATE: The city responds. Here's a comment from Rich Kerbel, Cicilline's director of administration, responding to the union concerns: "While the administrator of the City’s health plan will change, the coverage itself will remain the same...
While walking around Providence's Capitol Center some months back, I was struck by the sharp bifurcation between the beauty of the city's old buildings clustered downtown and the prosiac qualities of the newer structures increasingly filling the...
This question continues to hang in the air, with Frank Caprio and Patrick Lynch representing the most likely Democratic contenders for governor, IMHO, at this stage in the game. Then again, it never hurts to replenish your war chest and to cultivate supporters...
UPDATE: Comment from Durkee . Steve Durkee e-mailed me a short time ago, saying he hadn't received my e-mail until recently due to an e-mail problem. Here's what he had to say in response to my question. I am aware of this item on the CPC agenda...
Back during the Providence mayoral primary in 2002 , I spent part of Election Day with the two leading contestants, Joseph R. Paolino Jr. and David N. Cicilline. Cicilline, prior to winning, was plainly concerned about the possibility of irregularities...
Dan Barbarisi's got the details: PROVIDENCE — Garry Bliss, the City of Providence’s top lobbyist and special projects guru, spent yesterday cleaning out his desk in preparation for his last day of work today. His walls were bare, save one poster,...
A story in today's New York Times uses Providence as a peg for the question of whether some US homeland security resources would be better deployed against fighting local crime: Like most of the country’s more than 18,000 local law enforcement agencies...
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