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Jack Reed
The senior and influential U.S. Senator from Rhode Island has come out in favor of the deal with Iran that President Obama has agreed upon with the Middle East power. Yes, the deal isn't perfect, but it does give the United States a better opportunity to make certain that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon. (Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has also come out in support of the deal and therefore deserves some credit as well, but he normally defers to Reed on foreign policy issues, so Reed's decision was key.)
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Viola Davis
The two-time Tony Award winner and two-time Oscar nominated actress from Central Falls who lived, along with the other 7 members of her family, in poverty as a child, but rose to prominence thanks to her terrific acting skills, has had her story featured in this months edition of AARP magazine. Davis has done so much charity for her hometown and deserves all the accolades and credit she garners.
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Seth Magaziner
The General Treasurer, along with Capital Good Fund, announced a new partnership this week that will allow people with poor credit to access car loans at affordable rates for low-income Rhode Islanders. The initiative is a necessary step to help lower income Rhode Islanders garner access to financial services for a basic necessity such as transportation. (Now let's improve public transportation and make biking safer and Rhode Island will really be onto something.)
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Warwick North Little League
The Little League Softball team played in their version of The World Series on Wednesday night on ESPN networks. The girls didn't win the game, but making it as far as they did was a terrific accomplishment. The feat is another in a string of good showings by Rhode Island based little league squads, including David Belisle's Cumberland team last year.
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T.F. Green Airport
The airport has decided to take part in a Department of Homeland Security Program that will expand a behavior detection program that would attempt to determine travelers motives to do harm by monitoring mundane actions. The problem with the new program is that it has been found ineffective according to a 2013 report by the Government Accountability Office, and in 2012, the program, when initiated at Logan airport, was found to raise racial profiling issues.
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National Grid
The state legislature eliminated the tax on electricity earlier this year, yet it was brought to the attention of Rhode Island State Senator James Sheehan (D-North Kingstown) that one of his constituents who owned a business was still charged the tax, even after it was repealed. The company has admitted to the mistake, called it an oversight, and has promised to refund any tax money that they collected as a result. But a massive company like National Grid should know better, and the mistake should've never happened to begin with.
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