Indian-giver [sorry, couldn’t resist] Judge Susan McGuirl gave a suspended sentence to three Narragansett tribe members convicted of assaulting state police.
Projo’s got it:
The three Narragansett Indian tribal members convicted of assaulting and scuffing with state police during the 2003 raid on a tribal smoke shop will not have to spend time in jail. Judge Susan McGuirl issued a suspended sentence for one of the defendants and filed the case of Chief Sachem Matthew Thomas and the other tribe member, ordering them to provide community service by talking to school children about tribe history.
Ari’s dad
has a good meeting with Gordon Fox… And a not-so-good follow-up appearance on
John Depetro’s show. While he wasn’t
called a fat lesbian, Depetro’s listeners saw through his shenanigans and called him out on his racket: Don’t you see, he advocates for RiteCare for immigrant kids because he’s a doctor — he’s just looking to line his own pockets.
Yup, that’s an alien all right! No doubt about it! I mean, it sure looks like what an alien is supposed to look like. Thank god these
nutbags from Colorado were able to capture it on film and then try to make money off it!
The Denver man who is pushing a ballot measure to have the city form an “ET Commission” showed video of what he says is an alien Friday morning at a news conference. Reporters were allowed to view the video, but only a still image of it was released to the media.
Jeff Peckman said aliens visit his friend Stan Romanke all the time.
Romanke, who lives in Colorado Springs, allegedly recorded the alien video while living in Nebraska.
The pair has a deal with a documentary company for the rights to the video.
We at the Providence Daily Dose do not like to boast, self-promote, or influence political opinion (or, wait, isn’t that all we do?), but contributor Ari Savitzky is famous. You heard it here first unless you heard him on NPR this morning.
Speaking for Fair Vote Rhode Island, Savitzky was sound bitten twice. The first one I heard was about Rhode Island moving from the Electoral College system to a popular vote system. The second sound bite was about pre-registering 16 and 17-year-olds to vote. His voice can be described as velvety and smooth.
For one day only, Ari Savitzky’s fame is now slightly above Representative David Segal and one droplet below WRNI correspondent Megan Hall.
Signing off, this is Leslie Friedman, striving to be more famous than the dancing traffic cop.
Does it count as shameless self-promotion to promote my promotion of a friend’s event? Hopefully not. Scope my piece in this week’s Phoenix on the upcoming criminal justice reform festival, Justice or Just Us?, taking place at AS220 real soon.
We have apparently won the Phoenix Best Shit of the Year or whatever, for best blog. Although we’ve recieved no official notice from them and it’s not on the website and I can’t find a copy of it anywhere. But still! We’ll keep you posted…
Anyway, if by “Rhodies” the
Brown Daily Herald means “Rhode Islanders” then good on Brown.
The state is the 43rd most populous in the country, but the fifth most common home-state for the class of 2011. About 4 to 6 percent of Brown students hail from the Ocean State, despite the state accounting for only one-third of 1 percent of the country’s population, according to the Office of Institutional Research and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Do Rhode Island applicants have a home-field advantage?
“All other things being equal,” Dean of Admissions James Miller ‘73 said, “being from Rhode Island will tip the balance towards that applicant.”
Miller, who said there is no policy, formula or quota concerning Ocean State applicants, compared the advantage of being a local resident to that of a top legacy applicant. “We feel an obligation to the state, and students and families from the state,” he said.
“We want to be good citizens of the state, to educate the best students from the state,” he added.
This helps explain why they have coffee milk in the dining halls.
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The Journal says that there’s finally, almost, a plan to govern the sale of property opened up by the highway move. The sooner the better, as one would hope for predictability as Brown and JWU and RISD and the hospitals and the city’s other behemoths battle it out for the land.
PROVIDENCE — The state and the city have struck a deal to give Providence a voice in the sale of the land uncovered when Route 195 is peeled away four years from now — a once-in-a-lifetime property sale that some envision will lead to towering new office buildings that reshape the city’s skyline.
Until this point, the state Department of Transportation has controlled who could buy the property to be made available by the relocation of Route 195, and the city had been angling for a way in. Under an agreement to be officially signed this morning, the city, the DOT, and the state Economic Development Corporation will be partners in determining the future of the land.
Also, follow
this link for an awesome aerial photo of downtown — one of the more striking I’ve ever seen taken of Providence.
As I watch the Wire, as it mourns the decline of the newspaper:
Not a shocker that
PBN again front-loads the Chamber of Commerce line on the Economic Growth and Fairness Act — and the fact that it’d mean a tax cut for 90% of Rhode Islanders is of secondary importance. Nor that it front-loads anti-EGFA comments. Nor that it decides that ad hominems are worth highlighting:
“Sgouros is communist,” wrote Michael from Narragansett. “Only in a state that openly supports [labor activist and United Farm Workers founder Cesar E.] Chavez could this theft be proposed. I have an idea: Cut spending.”
Nor that PBN’s decided that stuff that appears on its own website is newsworthy, simply for appearing on its website…
A
couple of
sites in the Gawker empire have picked up the
article in last weeks Projo about how legal prostitution is in Rhode island, how it has to be indoors, etc. but that in the wake of the whole Elliot Spitzer shitstorm lawmakers are working to close that loophole. But in the process, Wonkette referes to Providence as “grimy”. Aw, c’mon!
A teenager allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail outside a long-vacant Jewish temple in South Providence early yesterday, but the police caught him and two of his apparent accomplices. The teens apparently intended to toss the Molotov cocktail into a vacant lot across the street from the temple in order to enjoy the sight of it shattering and flaming, but it was hastily cast aside onto the grass outside the temple when a police cruiser approached, the police said.
I’ve been trying to come up with a snarky remark for this one for ten minutes now, but I think that CVS and Medicaid fraud might be the two least funny things ever. Oh well. Check the screen grab below–looks like WPRI’s copy editors were busy News Chopping certain words off their headlines. Ha! Ha! Ha! Uh, ha. Okay, sorry, that was lame.
PROVIDENCE — Providence Place is trying a new gambit to unclog the chronic bottlenecks that plague its parking garage, according to the mall’s general manager.
Soon, people who drive to the mall will be able to pay their parking fees at ATM-like machines and cashier stations spread throughout the mall, alleviating the need for vehicles to queue alongside cashier booths at garage exits.
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Indian-giver [sorry, couldn’t resist] Judge Susan McGuirl gave a suspended sentence to three Narragansett tribe members convicted of assaulting state police.
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The Journal says that there’s finally, almost, a plan to govern the sale of property opened up by the highway move. The sooner the better, as one would hope for predictability as Brown and JWU and RISD and the hospitals and the city’s other behemoths battle it out for the land.
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