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FOX'S UNBELIEVABLE INTERVIEW: House Speaker Gordon Fox finally spoke to a reporter about his involvement in the botched 38 Studios loan guarantee – the day following the deadline for potential …
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Lonnie Barham
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7/5/12
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I glanced at my watch: 1:45 p.m. Did this make sense? I had a window of about two hours before a meeting at 4.
I would be leaving that evening for upstate New York, and this would be my only …
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John Howell
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7/3/12
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Some things you can’t throw away.
It’s been at least a year since Ted called with an offer and a plea.
“Dad, I have a couple of printers. They work fine and one is wireless, maybe you …
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John Howell
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6/26/12
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Our General Assembly has recessed in order for legislators to begin their re-election campaigns. Did they accomplish anything good for Rhode Island? Let's grade their major actions, with each grade …
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Lonnie Barham
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6/21/12
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Meg Fraser, Editor of the Cranston Herald and Johnston Sun Rise, takes time to reflect on Don D'Amato, historian, writer and consummate educator …
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The way in which the General Assembly passes the new fiscal year’s budget and legislative package for the state is always a perplexing affair, and this year’s experience is no different. Last …
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John Hazen White Jr.
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6/21/12
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As best I can figure, I met Bill Foster when I was in my early 30s.
I found myself pondering that while navigating traffic on Route 95, headed for Route 4 and the East Greenwich Division Street …
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After serving as an apprentice in a machine shop, Thomas Hill moved to Providence in 1830. He hoped to take advantage of the newest innovations of the Industrial Revolution and further his career. He …
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Don D'Amato
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6/14/12
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IMBALANCE OF GOVERNMENTAL POWER: Rhode Island is one of the few states in the union where one branch of government is so clearly more powerful than the other two. Of course in our little bastion of …
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Lonnie Barham
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6/14/12
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18 views
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A power washer is a guy thing.
It’s one of those tools, like a chain saw, that commands respect, although you can’t do as much damage with the power washer.
I knew my friend Claude …
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John Howell
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6/12/12
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9 views
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