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From: Super Bowl Notebook: Giants Touch Down, Talk Trash
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Great question EJ! He didn't have the boot on today at media day and appeared to be walking without a limp.From: Winter Fashion Finds at a Steal
I very much appreciate information about the different options of both online and local store shopping in order to make an informed decision on items. I love the items featured (how beautiful is that light jacket and, at such a great price!) and, with a crazy work schedule, I appreciate the ability to choose from online shopping options. I like that GOLOCAL Prov offers a variety of options, will certainly check their articles out more frequently!From: Guest MINDSETTER™ Dan Wall: Stop Trying to Silence Teachers
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Great photo. I love it the children are forming their own union. Its about time there was an organization that advocated for the students.Or is that a teachers child being shamelessly used as propoganda. No shame.
From: Is Providence Going Belly Up?
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@Dave BarryTavares didn't BASED A BUDGET ON ASSUMPTIONS he based it on promises.
He was promised that he could move retirees to medicare even though they had a contract.
He was promised the colleges would volunteer more money.
He was fooled by all of them and now it's showing...tick tock.. so much for the cool calm ivy league demeanor.
Watch out Cicilline, he is next on his list...he can only take this for so long.
From: NEW: ACLU Wants Cranston to Pay Up in Prayer Saga
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Pay up.From: Tom Sgouros: David Cicilline was Good for Providence
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while I still disagree with Tom claiming that Gore never claimed to have invented the internet, I do want to thank him for responding to my email. One has to ask if Al Gore was inspired by Townshend's early 70's song "Relay" in which he writes about what became the net when Al "FUNDED" the creation of our little "WWW."From: Governor Chafee’s State of the State Address - The Full Speech
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Thought the governor gave a good speech. Glad that I did (do, not due) it. Certainly thought he gave himself and others a lot of credit under the A part. In fact, as I listened I knew he was talking about Rhode Island and was correct, with all of the gloom going around, I wondered what state he was describing. The B part had some nice sounding rhetoric. We'll see how many buy the argument that... the tax increases are really the only way to help education and cities and towns (very vague on budget cut strategy -- and I've seen far too many promises of "earmaked" new revenue to take them seriously). As for C (corruption)--the jury is out, but I don't sense that the public image has changed at all. Overall, though the governor and his handlers put on a good performance.From: Super Bowl Notebook: Giants Touch Down, Talk Trash
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I saw Gronkowski say his ankle "could be 100% or 2%." Why wouldn't he say 100% or 50%? That 2% comment worries me.From: NEW: Lawmakers to Introduce Rhode Island DREAM Act Bill
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Here we go again.....let's pander to the illegals. The state has already cut the education aid to the state run colleges and universities and now they want to chop their legs further by forcing illegals into the system.It is time to clean these people OUT. Diaz and Pichardo are a cancer on this state and these kinds of bills are why this state is heading towards bankruptcy. They are in denial when they fail to see where everything is heading. Wake up RI!
From: State Could Save $250 Million by Banning Collective Bargaining, Study Says
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Jeffrey Brown,Thank you for your post. People ARE waking up to the fact that they are being fleeced, and are getting involved. We're becoming a union of taxpayers -- but without the dues to the big bosses. Yahoo!
From: Is Providence Going Belly Up?
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How is this possible?According to Tom Sgouros, David Cicilline was "good for Providence," and Providence has survived its economic crisis.
As for the sock puppet Edward Smith: Tell your fingerer David Cicilline that trying to blame John Lombardi and/or Buddy Cianci for his own professional incompetence and dishonor just ain't gonna cut it.
David Cicilline's desperation may be appreciated in direct proportion to his attempts to claim that the disasters he has rained on Providence are in fact the faults of Lombardi and Cianci.
David Cicilline's public life comes to an end in January, 2013.
David Cicilline's multiple six-figure pensions begin shortly thereafter -- possible legal difficulties notwithstanding.
From: Tom Sgouros: Pay Attention to the Numbers, Stupid
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Don't the millionaires benefit from mortgage deductions and "so forth" as well? Again, we need to be in line with our neighboring states to be competitive.From: Guest MINDSETTER™ Dan Wall: Stop Trying to Silence Teachers
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Joseph Fazio well put.As a society we need to offer the education it is up to the student to take it.
Why we continue to waste tax money on a student that doesn't want to apply themselves is beyond me.
From: Tom Sgouros: Pay Attention to the Numbers, Stupid
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Yes--the top rate dropped, but to keep it "revenue nuetral" (pol speak for "we can't stop spending"), the assembly eliminated many former deductions for the middle class (mortgage interest, and so forth). Thus, the millionaires got a break (Reid, Whitehouse, et al) and the middle class took a hit.From: NEW: Lawmakers to Introduce Rhode Island DREAM Act Bill
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No. Sorry education costs money. The professors and facilities must be paid for and maintained. Cutting costs to students that are not here legally is insane.Didn't the Governor want to hand out driver's licenses to illegals along with the tuition?
This is the social stuff where we need to stop spending the money we don't have.
From: Guest MINDSETTER™ Dan Wall: Stop Trying to Silence Teachers
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So I guess you guys failed U.S. History. Please look up the National Labor Relations Act or the Wagner Act.I take it you are displeased with the teacher performance of Barrington and East Greenwich? Or is it you think that places like Providence, Woonsocket, and Central Falls just have bad teachers? It is what it is people. The districts that have caring and concerned parents, clean well maintained buildings, and a student population that cares about being educated will do very well in all categories.
Armchair quarterbacks in education is just what this state needs. Try going in front of 27 teens who are court ordered to be there. Try holding the attention of 19 year old sophomores that can't leave thanks to the new laws.
From: Tom Sgouros: David Cicilline was Good for Providence
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David Cicilline's level of desperation may be measured in direct proportion to the number of times he sends out his surrogates to demonize Buddy Cianci.Sorry, Tom Elliott, but it was not Buddy Cianci who, in the words of the commission report, "did not recommend the difficult choices necessary to avert a fiscal crisis. The [Cicilline] Administration did not present a corrective action plan that could have minimized the pending financial melt-down that the City has experienced. Furthermore, the City’s financial challenges have been made more difficult to address because of a dysfunctional financial management system ... where requirements of the City Charter were ignored, where unrealistic budgetary assumptions were presented, and where effective monitoring of the Administration by the City Council was made difficult and was thus lacking."
David Cicilline presided over the economic ruin and educational ruin of Providence.
David Cicilline can "work hard" to try to deflect attention and blame to a man who has not been mayor of Providence for over a decade, but his effort will be in vain.
David Cicilline can "work hard" to characterize as "the old guard" everyone who sees through his lies and who calls him on his incompetence, but his effort will be in vain.
For it is David Cicilline who, in his incompetence and dishonesty, rained ruin on Providence. And all the bleating of all his little tin soldiers cannot and will not obscure this self-evident truth.
David Cicilline's political fate is sealed.
In January, 2013, Rhode Island will be rid of this horrible little man once and for all.
From: Five Ways to Save Rhode Island
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Some just can't wait to bash the unions, amazing. We need someone to do the jobs in the state. So what to do?Decide what is waste first and get rid of it.
Decide what services, regulations and mandates we want cut, and cut them.
Mr. Drew is right we can't be giving breaks to businesses to come here and not take care of those that are here first.
We need to cut back on regulations, the hoops mentioned in the article, that businesses must jump through. If you get rid of the regulations you don't need the people to enforce them. State costs are reduced. Taxes go down businesses come here on their own, tax revenue is increased.
So the question is what services, regulations and mandates do you want cut?
Police/Fire protection? Schools? Special needs? Safety regulation and standards like smoke detectors and maximum capacity rules? Boating laws and rules? Senior citizen services? Zoning laws? DEM regulations?
Lots of the laws, rules and mandates were put into place cause someone got hurt.
From: Tom Sgouros: David Cicilline was Good for Providence
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There may be a litany of recriminations posted above me, but no one can deny that David Cicilline entered office at a time when years and years of mismanagement a d open corruption had opened a huge deficit, despite a stable national economy. Cicilline put the city's finances in order and balanced the budget for years until Carcieri cut local aid and the national economy collapsed. Despite the progress he made, not a single day went by without a member of the old guard trying to stand in the way.Providence is going through tough times right now, but so are a lot of states and municipalities that are facing similar issues. Frankly, it's sad that the same people who stood in David's way nine years ago are still using this chance to relitigate the past at the expense of the city's progress. .
From: Is Providence Going Belly Up?
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DAVE is right. Tavares is an empty suit.Liberalism got us here. Look at DETROIT. Youtube: "Detroit in Ruins". This is where we're heading. The democRATS have destroyed our capitol and our state. For what? Their own personal enrichment.
Local government is a KLEPTOCRACY. Organized theft. "Stick it to the tqaxpayers" has been their mantra. Class warfare and fallacies their weapons. Now what? More empty homes, empty stores, empty streets, our kids move away as do the jobs and ultimately the union thugs who benefit from this treadmill of tax hikes and theft.
STOP VOTING democRAT.
From: NEW: Gas Prices up 7 Cents
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Where is the outrage and nightly reports on the Obama administration?From: Is Providence Going Belly Up?
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Tavares gets all sorts of passes from the media....why is that when he BASED A BUDGET ON ASSUMPTIONS? He assumed he could move retirees to medicare even though they had a contract. He assumed the colleges would volunteer more money. This guy went to an Ivy league school? Or, do they really want to settle all of these pesky union contract issues through bankruptcy.From: Tom Sgouros: David Cicilline was Good for Providence
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Next week on GoLocalProv: Why cancer is actually GOOD for you!From: Tom Sgouros: David Cicilline was Good for Providence
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Oh Tom,Let's PRETEND, for the sake of argument, that David Cicilline's personal dishonor and professional incompetence, did not drive Providence to the brink of economic ruin.
Let's further PRETEND that David Cicilline was telling the ... gulp! ... truth when he told us he had left Providence in fine financial condition.
If everything was just hunky-dory when David Cicilline left town, then does it not stand to reason that responsibility for current conditions is the buck that now stops on his successor's desk?
Logical, Tom?
If so, when are you and Myrth York and David Cicilline going to be forced to blame Angel Taveras for Providence's economic ruin?
Can't have it both ways, my friend.
Anyway ... So much for pretending.
David Cicilline, as demonstrated by common sense and by the aforementioned commission's painstaking report, in FACT bears the major blame for his city's dire economic condition.
Watch the news carefully, my friend.
From: Tom Sgouros: David Cicilline was Good for Providence
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Oh Tom,You wrote, "Providence has pulled through its [economic] storm."
I advise you to pay very close attention to your favorite local news sources over the next 72 hours.
You should give serious consideration to retracting your statement IMMEDIATELY.
Your friend,
Charlie
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