Local Friend Could Host TV News With Your Help Voting Ends TODAY – PASS ON LINK TO ANYONE with HEART+SOUL – Anyone can vote http://www.wpri.com/generic/entertainment/ent_other_3/the_rhode_show Fox Providence has put together a show dedicated to local content, choosing the host based on a contest. The host could be: Miss Rhode Island; a DJ from Boston; a …
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Considering that it’s one of the smaller towns in the state, why does it seem lately that so much weird news comes out of Richmond? Voting is usually a multiple-choice experience, but several spots on Richmond ballots were a fill-in-the-blank test, and in Charlestown a former Town Council president who wasn’t running for anything this …
Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage? Charles de Gaulle’s plaintive question — “How does one govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?” — is well considered in this time. History is painted heavy with the woeful tales of shattered nations. Yet while we …
You probably remember these guys from 2000. Where are they now? Whassup 2008
As we’re all now painfully aware, RIPTA’s growing budget crunch will likely lead to massive service cuts next year. But other than cutting costs, nothing going on at the state level right now is addressing the key question of how to pay for stable, reliable transit. Today’s ProJo reports several possible answers posed in Sierra …
Proposed transit cuts go right to the bone, but RIPTA really has no choice. On the one hand, RIPTA is beset by high fuel prices to run the buses. On the other, the money to pay for that fuel comes from a fixed per-gallon sales excise, which accounts for 70-80% of RIPTA’s revenue, yet does …
A documentary backed by Warren Buffett and Pete Peterson warns of the impending collapse of the federal finance system, weighed down by a staggering $53 trillion of debt, exacerbated by enormous and growing trade deficits and shrinking industrial capacity, and undercut by ballooning taxpayer credit failure. I.O.U.S.A. débuts tonight in 358 cinemas nationwide, including Showcase …
As students start dragging their beach-burned, hungover asses back to college in our little seven-school town, here’s an oldie (like, at least a year old!) but goodie, to remind ourselves, while our parking spaces and peace of mind disappear, why we love them — and their money — so much. The Hipster Olympics: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAO4EVMlpwM]