Providence
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss politics related to the Brown University shooting.
The Providence Eye mentions the concept in an article by Eric Halvarson with a focus on layoffs of the staff managing the process: On Tuesday November 18, Central Providence Unidos (CPU) staff prepared to celebrate the completion of the largest participatory budgeting program in Rhode Island history. Known as the Nine Neighborhood Fund, it distributed…
Back in October, I highlighted the Providence City Council campaign of Republican Brown student Axel Brito, saying it raised “the old, confounding questions for Rhode Island Republicans.” My conclusion was that Providence Republicans should probably support him, while the rest of us should start thinking about ways to make our support for candidates more valuable.…
According to Jonathan Howard on The Providence Eye, the city is considering over $1 billion in new school spending: The Providence Public School Dept. (PPSD) and the city of Providence will spend about $1 billion, give or take a few tens of millions of dollars, to build at least 16 new or like new school buildings and…
The complexity of monitoring income-restricted housing proves its artificial nature and challenges its wisdom.
The GoLocalProv news team was right to use a “guess what happened next” clickbait headline on this story: “The scope of the audit is from January 1, 2022, through February 28, 2025. For this time period, sixteen (16) nonunion employees received $427,575 for various types of overtime. Only five (5) of the sixteen (16) properly received…
Here’s a detail from The Newport Buzz that I didn’t know about speed-enforcement cameras that send drivers automatic tickets: City officials insist the vendor “received all necessary approvals,” but also confirmed they are only now reviewing whether the required warning signs are actually in place. Rhode Island law mandates four signs on each approach, each measuring…
The response of Seinfeld character George Costanza when confronted for having had an affair with the office cleaning woman on his desk still echoes in our culture: Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell ya, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all…
Former Democrat State Representative Joe Almeida attempts to justify the racist loan-forgiveness program the Providence school district and the Rhode Island Foundation have been offering to teachers with darker skin tones: In a system where about 78% of the teachers are white and 82% of the students are either Black or Hispanic, it is vital…
Details are important, of course. A police report that a “librarian at Pleasant View Elementary School [in Providence] was arrested after she allegedly … struck [a student] once with force with an open hand on his back” doesn’t tell us much. Was the student injured? Was he sprawled out on the floor? Did he even…
