Law and Order
Regardless of the identity of the alleged harasser, I agree with Will that the timing of Bobby Oliveira’s arrest is suspicious. I’d even go so far as to suggest that it’s reason for concern, given its Rhode Island political context: The police yesterday picked up School Committee candidate Robert. T. Oliveira on a year-old arrest…
Will Ricci of the Ocean State Republican has the scoop on a breaking news story involving a name very familiar in Rhode Island’s blogosphere…
The general public keeps hearing from various quarters that immigration is a federal matter, therefore local police authorities shouldn’t take any initiative in enforcing immigration laws. That refrain brings to mind Amanda Milkovits‘ story from the Projo of two Saturdays ago…At dusk, a dozen Providence police officers and state police troopers in unmarked cruisers drove…
Under Andrew’s post “RI Supreme Court Overturns Lead-Paint Verdict”, commenter Greg brings up the unwritten agreement – don’t call it a “settlement” – by which R.I. Attorney General Patrick Lynch excused DuPont paint from his lawsuit and the potential of a very expensive verdict. While Attorney General Lynch said of the settlement in July, 2005…
From Brandie Jefferson of the Projo’s 7-to-7 blog…The Rhode Island Supreme Court today reversed a lower court’s judgments in favor of the state in its suit against companies that manufactured and sold lead paint in Rhode Island. The court reversed the Superior Court’s decision calling for Millennium Holdings, NL Industries and Sherwin-Williams to participate in…
Looks like Bob Corrente is going to need a lot more than the “word” of John Celona to help him with Operation Dollar Bill…. Former CVS executives John R. “Jack” Kramer and Carlos Ortiz have been cleared of charges that they tried bribing former state Sen. John Celona to win favor in the State House…
The behavior is bad enough, but one detail of this story leaves me with a big “huh?”: Two 17-year-old Tiverton High School students have been charged by police and disciplined by the high school, following two separate incidents in which they allegedly broke into a home, stole cash and other items, urinated on a bed,…
Just after headlines concerning the large American prison population and my slap-dash finding that Americans don’t like criminals and feel very safe comes an interesting editorial report from BBC North America Editor Justin Webb: What surprises the British tourists is that, in areas of the US that look and feel like suburban Britain, there is…
This bit of tsk-tsking is floating among newspapers: … the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment. Americans are locked up for crimes — from writing bad checks to using drugs — that would rarely produce prison sentences…
Rhode Island’s propensity for showing up on the top of negative lists is moving from the sublime to the ridiculous. From the Associated Press… The federal government also released estimates of driving under the influence of illicit drugs. The rates were highest in the District of Columbia, 7 percent; Rhode Island, 6.8 percent; and Massachusetts,…
