Providence
Combining Randal Edgar‘s story in today’s Projo on the likely next step that follows the inability of the parties(*) in Cranston to agree upon a new police contract via negotiation…After watching a tentative contract go down to defeat, the police officers union is taking its case to a new venue that could ultimately cost taxpayers…
What kind of a school system would let this sort of thing happen? It’s sure to be the end of quality public education as we know it (emphasis added): Starting this fall, teacher vacancies in four Providence schools — Hope High School, Veazie Street Elementary School, Lauro Elementary School and Perry Middle School — will…
The official last word – what, if any, disciplinary action the Providence School District will take against Mr. Robert Perkins – is now a week overdue, hopefully because the district is reconsidering a bad initial decision. In the meantime, David Quiroa had a pretty balanced take in Tuesday’s ProJo. First and foremost I have to…
… in the following press release issued at 3:08 pm today. Dear Friend, You have been an active supporter of the important work we have taken on together, and I want you to be among the first to know about an important decision I have reached. In these particularly difficult economic times, I am more…
Can someone please explain: – the flags of which countries are subjugated to rights of free speech and which are not; – how, when faced with a “situation” in the City of Providence, to determine if it requires a careful, six figure investigation or if it qualifies for an off-the-cuff snap judgment.
Here comes another historic, philosophical battle, this time in Providence: Education Commissioner Peter McWalters has ordered the city schools to begin filling teacher vacancies based on qualifications rather than seniority, an order that could fly in the face of the teachers’ contract. McWalters, in a no-nonsense letter yesterday to Supt. Tom Brady, said the district…
… by the administration of Mayor David Cicilline. Some city officials think Caprio and the three other Municipal Court judges might be a little too forgiving to those who come before them, and it is costing the city money. Mayor David N. Cicilline’s director of administration, Richard I. Kerbel, says the court — which deals…
Former Providence Tax Collector Robert Ceprano talks about his termination and events leading up to it in today’s front page ProJo story by Mike Stanton. And below is the text of a press release issued yesterday by Mayor David Cicilline responding to the story ahead of time. Two items stick out from Stanton’s story. One…
Part 2 of Tim White’s investigation into misuse of public resources and time in the Providence Sewer Department mainly concerned supervisor Algot Abrahamson’s use of a city truck for a spin to a known gambling house. More intriguing, in my opinion, is the similarity in some of the supervisor’s phrasing to that of Mayor David…
Channel 12 reporter Tim White did some surveillance of the Providence Sewer Department and in part 1 revealed some observations that certainly wouldn’t seem to have involved isolated incidents, this one in particular: His name – Anthony Cipriano, Jr. Records show Cipriano is a heavy equipment operator for the sewer department, and a shop steward…