Law and Order

Governor Donald Carcieri has asked the state police to begin an investigation into the state’s Department of Transportation contract staffing practices. From Mike Stanton and Katherine Gregg in today’s Projo…Governor Carcieri yesterday asked the state police to “begin a preliminary review” of the way business has been conducted by the state Department of Transportation… Bottom…

“Tom Paine” takes the Brits to task for their “smug” and “gleeful” take on the recent Virginia Tech massacre. He also makes this acute observation about comparing British and American homicide rates: Britain’s only statistical advantage in the field of crime is that our homicide rate is lower. That’s largely because we only count convictions,…

Our prayers go out to the victims of yesterday’s Virginia Tech shootings. No political commentary here, obviously. But what purpose is being served by investigators’ seeming coyness about admitting whether there is the possibility of a second shooter or not…Virginia Tech’s president said Tuesday that a student was the gunman in at least the second…

Speaking of proposals with gaping holes, if not blatant contradictions, in their reasoning, “key lawmakers and other major players in the state’s law and order community” offered Governor Carcieri some suggestions as to how he might free up some space in the ACI as part of attempts to decrease the state government’s deficit. Apparently: 31…