Rhode Island Culture
According to Edward Fitzpatrick in today’s Projo, Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch continues his pattern of asserting that the rules that apply to everyone else don’t apply to him. We’ve had the Attorney General assert that it’s alright for him to take campaign contributions from a defendant that he is in negotiations with and…
The Coventry Courier tells the story of a woman laid to rest in West Greenwich in 1889, later mistakenly identified as a vampire…The last and perhaps most widely known case of alleged vampirism in Rhode Island history is that of Mercy Lena Brown, buried at the Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Exeter…. On Jan. 17, 1892…
(With the help of some creative editing) here is the true story from the July 3, 2004 edition of the Block Island Times of the most recent sighting of a mythical sea creature that may live in the briny deep off of Block Island sound…URI Oceanographer: “It was a monster” On Thursday, June 24, Callum…
One warning to the trick-or-treaters of South County tonight. Recorded in the Bigfoot Field Researchers’ Organization database has been a Class-A sighting from Charlestown of the creature known as Bigfoot…It had been raining earlier with thunder and lightning mixed in. Now it was just raining. We were rounding a corner on one of the roads…
As I was putting together the previous item on Beacon Mutual, I stumbled across a book titled The Politics of Automobile Insurance Reform: Ideas, Institutions, and Public Policy in North America by Edward Lascher. I’m not sure if its table of contents should make Rhode Islanders laugh or make us cry…Introduction: Why We Should Care…
The unsigned editorial in Sunday’s Projo concerning Judge Francis Darigan’s role in the Derderian/Station fire plea deal shows no cognizance about what the general public finds disquieting about it…Under our system, defendants have a right to plea-bargain before a trial with prosecutors, a judge has the power to approve or reject such deals, and to…
An unsigned editorial in today’s Projo (drawing on a Rhode Island Public Expenditures Council study) repeats the kinds of numbers Rhode Islanders are all too familiar with…“Rhode Island spends significantly more per person on government than the national average ($7,077 vs. $6,493, in 2004, the most recent numbers available)”.“Should Rhode Island be content with poorly…
Timothy C. Barmann of the Projo has been reporting that Verizon is trying to enter the Rhode Island cable TV market. This is from yesterday’s paper…Verizon Communications has cleared a significant hurdle in its plans to offer cable television service in Rhode Island by reaching an agreement with the state that lifts the requirement that…
I haven’t posted much lately, mostly because of real world “busy-ness” with work and family. One result of all of this activity is that ideas and thoughts flitter across the mind only to leave again, half-resolved. However, the benefit of a blog is that these things don’t have to remain that way. So, if you’ll…
Up until Friday, the quasi-official narrative of the disposition of the Derderian trial was that all sides wanted a plea deal, but could not agree on a sentence. Becoming frustrated with an impasse in the negotiations (and perhaps with some confusion within the Attorney General’s office), Judge Francis Darigan directly negotiated a sentence with the…