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E.J. Dunn
Nov 18, 2011
6:49pm

From: RI Attorney Charged With Scamming Sick and Elderly

If this is true, their actions with the elderly -- terminally ill elderly -- is unconscionable. They're little short of ghouls.

Sammy B
Nov 18, 2011
6:48pm

From: BREAKING: Letter Warns State Will Defund ProCAP by End of Year

Carol, as a former employee I saw the mismanagement of funds day in and day out. So please dont tell me to believe what I want when I know what I saw.
Im confident the truth will all come out...you'll see. And then you'll also see that what I was saying was correct all along.

Sammy B
Nov 18, 2011
6:45pm

From: NEW: ProCAP Blocks Access to Independent Assessor

Harry please click on the link below and now try and tell me that I dont know what I am talking about....
http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/providence/procap-owes-15m-to-providence-union

Careabout RI
Nov 18, 2011
6:29pm

From: Landmark Pension Bill Passes House, Senate

I find it interesting that labor leaders like Frank Ciccone who voted against this bill and key democrats have donated to the Doherty campaign. It doesn't pass the smell test. This state is incestuous.

Careabout RI
Nov 18, 2011
6:22pm

From: Side of the Rhode: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not in RI Politics?

The fact that Lt. Colonel Loughlin is in Iraq serving his country makes him hot in my book, every week! I am tired of these political opportunists especially the ones who think they are better than everyone else.

Careabout RI
Nov 18, 2011
6:16pm

From: RI Could Lose Billions in New Federal Cuts

The 4 turkeys that we have representing us in Congress all need to go!

watching providence
Nov 18, 2011
5:17pm

From: NEW: Cicilline Praises Passage of VOW to Hire Heroes Act

Boy, this one a tough one to jump on board with. it passed by 95-to and 422-0. How did David ever make up his mind?

rws mom
Nov 18, 2011
5:07pm

From: The Communities with the Most Sex Offenders

Ms Stow,
Thank you for your honesty and truth. I am a mother of a young man in prison right now, who is facing 10 years in DOC and LIFE on the registry. He was 17 when charged with the crime. Too many people are being convicted of these "crimes" because prosecutors and DOC gain from them. Prosecutors gain Federal Funding to prosecute and DOC gains funding from the states and vendors that support them. DOC and prosecutors support the media that produce this kind of hysteria as well. Fact is, 95.5% of all registrants will NEVER re-offend. Fact is, most children are molested or abused by their own parents or relatives. Fact is, laws that are written from the horrid loss of a few in which the laws were made, are actually hurting MORE children than saving. Fact is, states are using tax payer money to charge, convict, house and monitor the offenders when they have THE lowest recidivism rates other than murderers who are locked up majorativley for life. Fact is, lawmakers, media and prosecutors are using this hysteria to gain votes and earn trust in their readers.
Know the facts!

peter costello
Nov 18, 2011
4:17pm

From: NEW: Cicilline Praises Passage of VOW to Hire Heroes Act

Finally he says something that makes sense. Maybe there is hope! 2012 is coming fast.

joe bernstein
Nov 18, 2011
3:39pm

From: Side of the Rhode: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not in RI Politics?

Whitehouse has aways been a phony,incompetent,piece of crap who gets away with a whole lot based on his patrician nose in the air demeanor-of course he always has some pasta and meatballs for the "little people"(us)while he partakes of the wine and stinky foot cheese with the upper crust inbred creeps that he hangs with.
THIS GUY HAS BEEN AN UPWARD FAILURE ALL ALONG.

Carol DeFeciani
Nov 18, 2011
2:45pm

From: BREAKING: Pension Reform Bill Passes; Heads to Governor’s Desk

Neither my State Senator Juan Pichardo nor my State Representative Grace Diaz voted.

How's that for the American democratic process?

Their constiuents have no representation.

Carol DeFeciani
Nov 18, 2011
2:41pm

From: Landmark Pension Bill Passes House, Senate

Mr. McGowan, please mention that neither my State Senator Juan Pichardo nor my State Representative Grace Diaz bothered to vote last night...

So much for the American democratic process...

Valerie Parkhurst
Nov 18, 2011
1:58pm

From: The Communities with the Most Sex Offenders

Hell!!!! Shelly Stow you almost brought a tear to my eye if I didnt know better. For those of us who do KNOW better, lets look at the facts. Offenders dont have residency restrictions unless their convictions involved a Minor. Legislators have now allowed offenders who were convicted of "romeo" crimes to petition off the registry so they are being removed from the registry as I write this.Other offenders who were involved in more serious crimes but have walked the straight and narrow for 10 years also are petitioning off the registry. Shelly Stow is pleading for those whose crimes will never "qualify" for removal off the registry due to the fact these freaks warrant lifetime watching. Sex offenders and or their advocates who scream the loudest are the ones with the harshest and most heinous criminal backgrounds, but they do it under the "guise" of "Compassion" Ask ShellyStow "where was the compassion when some freak unzipped his pants over a 6 year old"??? Yea real tear jerker Shelly..

harry rexicer
Nov 18, 2011
1:46pm

From: NEW: ProCAP Blocks Access to Independent Assessor

Billy: Your mommy let you out of the basement? Answer me this, do you have a job? a high school certificate? What do you know about running a business? About non profit organizations? About anything?

john paycheck
Nov 18, 2011
1:45pm

From: Aaron Regunberg: Think Again on Pension Reform

man, you have to blaze your own trail. speak your own mind...develop your own opinions. are you an american first or a progressive first???

try to look at things more objectively//like do unions care a hoot about their members, the people that serve their members???

wait till you try to find a good job in this state. and then ask yourself why there are no good jobs here....

Billy Thompson
Nov 18, 2011
1:30pm

From: Over $500k Missing in ProCAP Scandal

this is only the tip of the iceberg at procap. just watch. with Taveras putting sunlight on all of this, watch the rats scatter....

Billy Thompson
Nov 18, 2011
1:29pm

From: NEW: ProCAP Blocks Access to Independent Assessor

harry - answer me just two questions. do you work for ProCap? are you implicated in these allegations of mismanagement? i await your response.

Billy Thompson
Nov 18, 2011
1:28pm

From: BREAKING: Letter Warns State Will Defund ProCAP by End of Year

glad to see Mayor Taveras having the courage to take on this old-school vestige of patronage and corruption. no one else has. people helping the poor shouldnt be managing an agency this way. SHAMEFUL!!!

Russ C
Nov 18, 2011
1:28pm

From: Aaron Regunberg: Think Again on Pension Reform

It's hard to view this as anything but running out of arguments. Guilt by association is all that's left? Aaron, many conservatives and Tea Partiers support free and fair elections. Perhaps progressives like you should reconsider that position as well?

Me, I learn what I can and make up my own mind. If that means I'm in the majority, all the better. If that means I stand alone, I will. THAT'S what it is to be a progressive.

Billy Thompson
Nov 18, 2011
1:26pm

From: Side of the Rhode: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not in RI Politics?

Absolutely Corbishley needs to go. This is Enron Accounting and Ponzi schemes at its worst! And with the people's money, no less!! Clean House Mayor Taveras!!

john paycheck
Nov 18, 2011
1:05pm

From: Side of the Rhode: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not in RI Politics?

brendan is a great candidate for governor but i dontlike him as a congressman.

yes he will win his hometown of cumberland but the rest of his district is very diffeent from that. i think he will lose big in pwtucket, central falls, woonsocket, newport.

he has a great future ahead of himself but its just not working ofr him right now.

just ask jimmy bennet - a great candidate who mae soem dumb moves and was finished in politics

Shelly Stow
Nov 18, 2011
1:00pm

From: The Communities with the Most Sex Offenders

Dear Representative Baldelli-Hunt:

After reading your remarks in this article-- "I'm not interested in their [those released after a sex conviction] rights or protecting them. I have no concern for them because they are the worst of the worst."--I am quite frankly appalled, and I beg you to think about what you have said.

You know that these men, women, and children who are on the registry are almost always released back into their home communities. Therefore, they are your constituents just as much as any other person. Many are on the registry for offenses that, when you were a teen or young adult, were not considered illegal or were misdemeanors. Some were falsely accused. How can you have no concern for them? How can you call them the worst of the worst when you don't even know the circumstances of their alleged offenses and of their lives? Many of them had no offense involving a child. Many of them are children themselves. Well over 90% of them will never re-offend and want nothing more than to atone for what they did and to assimilate back into their communities, yet you would drive them in fear and desperation from your midst.

And speaking of that, you also said, when openly advocating public shaming for them so as to drive them out, "It's not our responsibility to be concerned with how other states handle their sex offenders." Again, I am appalled. We no longer live isolated and separated from others; we are a global community. To openly admit, in any situation, that you have no concern for your neighboring states shows a degree of selfishness and arrogance that is not what one hopes for in his government representatives.

I do not write this to create antagonism but rather to beg you to think about your responsibilities as an elected official. I beg you to spend 30 minutes researching with ordinary online computer search engines what all reputable studies, both governmental and university, have to say about the sex offender registry and those on it. I beg you to develop some compassion for all, not just those that you deem worthy.

Thank you for reading my letter.
Sincerely,
Shelly Stow

ProJo Login
Nov 18, 2011
12:52pm

From: Landmark Pension Bill Passes House, Senate

Patrick Crowley's comments are laughable. The unions botched this big time and utterly failed to represent their members. Rather than try to reach a reasonable compromise early on they fought this tooth and nail and got nothing. Now they are trying to put a fig leaf on this failure by claiming to their members they scored some late "victories". This on top of years of obstruction and attack of anyone who dared suggest there was even a problem. Sorry, but not buying that line of BS. Were I a union member I'd demand new leadership, especially given the salaries they "earn."

Christy Nadalin
Nov 18, 2011
12:49pm

From: Aaron Regunberg: Think Again on Pension Reform

Your analysis is thin. Perhaps the reason supporters include the tea party and business interests (and look more closely at reform supporters in RI -- far more small businesses than big) is because they are not interested in watching an unsustainable pension system bankrupt the state? You ingore the fact that the legislation was drafted by our Democrat treasurer and will be signed by our "progressive" governor.

E.J. Dunn
Nov 18, 2011
12:39pm

From: RI Could Lose Billions in New Federal Cuts

Given the federal deficit, how can spending cuts surprise anyone? But get used to it; that will be the name of the game for at least the next five years, probably longer, until the federal deficit is "under control."

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