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Providence Daily Dose: Another One for the Books

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:02:00 -0500

So, you ask, what exactly is it that preteen Catholic schoolgirls don’t do? Breaking the principal’s clothesline, for one. But that’s exactly what heroine Jody has done, in first-time Providence author Judi Cosentino’s book, Good Girls Don’t….

Self-published and soon making its way to local bookstores, [...]

Providence Daily Dose: Weekend In Music

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:18:59 -0500

Friday — @the Box, Sharks Come Cruisin, Spanish Gamble, Reverse the Curse, imadethismistake @Firehouse 13, Death Vessel, Brown Bird,Tom Thumb @AS220, Mary Bee, Ocean Born Muse, Michelle Lewis, Allysen Callery @Club Hell, Company of Thieves, Eric French and Mr. Hyde @Lupo’s, RI Blues [...]

Projo Subterranean Homepage News: Free mp3s: Talking Heads '83

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:27:49 -0500

Talking Heads - Saratoga Springs 1983
Live at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, August 5, 1983. Very good soundboard. (This show has also been listed as August 3, 1983.)

David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth met at RISD and went on [...]

Anchor Rising: Global Warming: What is the 6% Solution?

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:49:00 -0500

The Climate Conference commenced Monday in Copenhagen. President Obama has promised that the United States will abate its greenhouse gas emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels over the next decade and by 83% by 2050. Adding to the madness,... [...]

Kmareka.com: A Cool Blog

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:05:24 -0500

If you like David Macauley, and knowing how things work, if you like the Discover Network and Google Earth and maps and blueprints and the changing skyline, you’ll love, Greater City: Providence. Greater City: Providence promotes the growth and development of the Greater Providence region in as urban a pattern as [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: RI United Way youth group seeks donations for food bank

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:59:00 -0500

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The United Way of Rhode Island has announced that a youth organization has launched a food drive through Dec. 18 for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank.

Members of the Young Leaders Circle, a United Way group formed to engage youth in making a positive difference, are asking [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Man asleep in car in turn lane arrested in Narragansett

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:35:00 -0500

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. -- A South Kingstown man was charged with driving under the influence and refusing an alcohol test early Tuesday after Narragansett police found him asleep in the driver's seat of his car, the engine running, in a left-turn lane near the Salt Pond Shopping Center.

Marcus Drew Robinson, 26, [...]

GC:PVD | Greater City: Providence: Metro Transit Study

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:31:52 -0500

Number of comments: 4

Providence Mayor David Cicilline speaks at the event introducing the Metropolitan Providence Transit Enhancement Study. Photo by Jef Nickerson

“The time for us to make investment in transit is right now.”

David Cicilline, Mayor of Providence

Today, RIPTA released their long awaited Metropolitan Providence Transit Enhancement [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: RI state police arrest fired RI trash agency worker

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:14:00 -0500

Nathan Hannon, the former education coordinator at the Rhode Island trash agency, was arrested by the State Police on Thursday and charged with obtaining money under false pretenses.

The arrest follows a Providence Journal story in October detailing several work appointments that Hannon failed to keep. He was fired from [...]

Providence Daily Dose: This Is What Passes For Sports Coverage On The Dose

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:34:22 -0500

There’s an interesting thing going on in the college basketball world — which is to say, some of the Ivy League doesn’t suck so much this year. (Unfortunately, Brown’s not taking part in the trend. And, fortunately, traditional “powerhouses” Penn and Princeton aren’t running away with [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Allstate fined for violating R.I. auto repair law

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:16:00 -0500

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Department of Business Regulation (DBR) has fined Allstate Insurance Co. $5,000 after concluding that a company representative violated a Rhode Island law that lets consumers choose where they want to have their vehicles repaired.

The law bans insurance companies from "interfering with the insured's or" [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Providence, E. Providence host toy gun exchanges

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:11:44 -0500

Children in Providence and East Providence can trade toy guns for real candy or toys on Friday and Saturday.

In Providence, children can feed their toy guns to the "Bash-O-Matic," a device designed and built by students at the New England Institute of Technology and the Rhode Island School of Design, [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Reporter's query: looking for houses decked out for the holidays

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:08:00 -0500

The Journal wants to find Rhode island residences where the exteriors have been elaborately decorated for Christmas. We'll select the best of the bunch to include in a guide, informing the public of the most extensive, colorful and tasteful drive-by opportunities in a future Lifebeat section.

If you'd like people to [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: N. Providence man accused in E. Greenwich invasion

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:37:00 -0500

EAST GREENWICH, R.I. -- A member of the Rhode Island National Guard is being held without bail on Thursday on charges that he and another man stormed into a house in East Greenwich intending to rob a fellow Guardsman.

Daniel Christian, 24, of North Providence
Photo courtesy [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: New online option now available for RI unemployed

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:34:37 -0500

CRANSTON, R.I. -- Rhode Islanders who are collecting unemployment benefits now have a new way to certify that they remain available to work and are actively seeking work -- a key requirement to help ensure that they continue to receive weekly benefits.

Normally, people certify by calling the agency's Teleserve automated [...]

Providence Daily Dose: If You Like Real Housewives…

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:16:40 -0500

“You’ll love Jersey Shore.” Marc Malkin gives what’s meant as more than faint praise to the show that’s launched the career of Johnston-based self-identified guido Pauly D, as Beth noted last week. But an important update: Already on pace to pass Meredith Vieira as the foremost [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: RISPCA to find homes for animals at foreclosed farm

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:31:52 -0500

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An agreement hammered out between Daniel MacKenzie and the mortgage company that foreclosed upon his property, Bonniedale Farm in Glocester, will leave the animals in the hands of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Associate Justice Jeffrey A. Lanphear praised the attorneys [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: RI antipoverty advocates push for more school breakfasts

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:03:11 -0500

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- The number of poor students eating free or low-cost breakfasts is increasing in the United States -- but not in Rhode Island, antipoverty advocates said Thursday.

In fact, Rhode Island is one of five states where the number of children who eat breakfast at school fell in [...]

Anchor Rising: Caprio on Abortion

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:48:00 -0500

Not to pick on gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio, but he's been providing a lot of material, lately, such as the following, from Ed Fitzpatrick's recent column about the politician's experience as an unwed teenage father: Did that experience inform his... [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Update: Wells Fargo promises care for Glocester animals

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:23:10 -0500

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Financial services company Wells Fargo says it's helping more than 100 animals left behind on a foreclosed rescue farm in northwestern Rhode Island, but a spokeswoman said Thursday that Wells Fargo is not the one that foreclosed on the property.

Dan MacKenzie was evicted from Bonniedale [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Update: FBI arrests Woonsocket police officer

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:19:44 -0500

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Woonsocket police officer Thursday pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court to charges that he assaulted a juvenile in his custody and obstructed justice, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

John H. Douglas was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with violating the civil rights' [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Red Sox close to trading Mike Lowell

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:09:14 -0500

The Boston Red Sox are close to a deal that would send 2007 World Series MVP Mike Lowell to the Texas Rangers in return for a minor league catcher, Max Ramirez, report The Journal's Joe McDonald and Daniel Barbarisi from baseball's winter meetings, in Indianapolis. Under the deal, the Red [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: 'Buckles' Melise asks to spend holidays with family

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:35:55 -0500

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The former city highway superintendent who did time for extorting money from snowplow contractors wants to spend the holidays with his family after his recent arrest for selling prescription drugs.

Edwards "Buckles" Melise, 61, an ally of former Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. who remains under home [...]

GC:PVD | Greater City: Providence: 1577 Westminster, for realz!

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:28:30 -0500

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1577 Westminster Street, rendering Kite Architects

The WBNA has been working hard for some time now to build their green building at 1577 Westminster Street. Delays have been caused largely as a result of putting together financing for the [...]

Providence Daily Dose: Just Stand Up

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:23:20 -0500

Number of comments: 9

Wet? Yes. But drowning? Really?

Not to take anything away from the heroic actions of the bystanders who selflessly rushed to aid the gentleman struggling in the Waterplace Park basin Tuesday night — anyone willing to touch the Woonasquatucket is a [...]

Providence Daily Dose: Free Live Music For Doser Youth

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:50:26 -0500

Attention Under-30 Crowd! Being broke giving you the blues? Well, guess who else wants to give you the blues? For free! Head down to Lupo’s this Friday for the ‘Rhode Island Blues Reunion’ featuring former members of Grammy-nominated Roomful of Blues and other assorted [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Fired West Warwick town manager to get his pension

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:40:14 -0500

WEST WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - The West Warwick town council has voted to give former town manager Wolfgang Bauer his pension, two years after it fired him for overspending a major development project by $800,000.

After the firing, the council denied his pension because he was a few months short [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Skeleton in Warwick cellar may be Native American

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:24:15 -0500

WARWICK, R.I. -- The skeleton discovered Wednesday by construction workers digging in the basement of a house in Lakewood may be that of a Native American, Paul Robinson, an archaeologist with the state Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission, said on Thursday.

The 1895 house at 84 Tyler St. was constructed [...]

hard deadlines: Portsmouth Dems host holiday party, raffle

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:23:13 -0500

Valley Inn host Joe Occhi draws winning ticket as Len Katzman and Rich Gottlieb look on.

The Portsmouth Democratic Town Committee hosted their annual holiday party — and their first-ever 50/50 raffle — last night at the Valley Inn, and both were a big success.

"This was our first" [...]

Not for Nothing: RI GOP RIP?

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:37:00 -0500

The Rhode Island Republican Party's scuffle over a platform that would embrace candidates with moderate positions on social issues like abortion is, perhaps, the worst signal the state GOP could send at this moment.

Anti-incumbent feeling is brewing nationwide as the economy continues to struggle and health care reform tumbles in [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: R.I. shares in settlement with drug makers

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:07:38 -0500

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch late Wednesday said Rhode Island will get more than $150,000 as part of an agreement with two companies in the health-care industry to settle allegations that the businesses engaged in kickback schemes that defrauded federal and state health-care programs.

The states and [...]

Kmareka.com: NYT on Pat Kennedy

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:06:36 -0500

A JFK Catholic remarks on the role of church and state. [...]

Anchor Rising: Disappointment in Levesque Voters

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:40:00 -0500

Even with the article's lack of specificity about Levesque's meaning, this is a bit hard to take: "In a way, I'm disappointed in everybody," Sen. Charles J. Levesque, D-Portsmouth, said to Kai-Yan Lee, of the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston,...' [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Two women, two dogs rescued from Providence fire

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:31:33 -0500

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A mother and her daughter were rescued from a fire that consumed their Mount Hope home and injured four firefighters early Thursday morning.

As firefighters pulled up to 517 Hope St., they saw the two women reaching out from a smoke-filled second-floor window and screaming for help, while [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Editor's query: What would you ask RI's economic chief?

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:22:05 -0500

The new director of Rhode Island's Economic Development Corporation is visiting Rhode Island this week.

Ioanna T. Morfessis, founder of an Arizona consulting firm, is charged with changing Rhode Island's economic climate at a time when Rhode Islanders are reeling from the recession. The Ocean State has one of the [...]

Anchor Rising: Keeping Republicans Republican

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:48:00 -0500

Hooray to Raymond McKay, president of the Rhode Island Republican Assembly, and the other members of the State Central Committee who insisted that conservatives should still be able to call the RIGOP their political home: Most glaring to some was... [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Man killed in roll-over in Lincoln

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:47:39 -0500

LINCOLN, R.I. -- A man was killed early Thursday morning after his car crashed and rolled over onto a highway ramp off Route 146 north.

He was identified as Zachary Maynard, 27, of 159 Obed Ave., North Providence.

State Police Lt. Paul Olszewski said Maynard, driving north on 146, was trying to [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Johnston woman pleads not guilty to burying baby

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:43:57 -0500

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A Johnston woman has pleaded not guilty to burying the body of her newborn baby under a garden shed.

Crystal Sullivan entered her plea Wednesday to a charge of failing to report a death, a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison.

Police say the 20-year-old [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Thursday's Providence Journal front page

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:06:03 -0500

Thursday's Providence Journal front page reports that the state will close its unemployment call center some days to catch up on a backlog.

A Spanish teacher at Middletown High School is Rhode Island's Teacher of the Year.

National Grid has agreed to use [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Partly cloudy, high in the 40s, colder weather on the way

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:00:45 -0500

Live local radar

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Thursday's commute should be much easier now that the storm that brought snow and then rain to the region has moved away.

Expect a high in the mid-40s Thursday and partly cloudy skies. The wind will blow at 15 to 20 mph. [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Today in history: Suspected serial killer indicted

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:05:00 -0500

On the local front:

A year ago today:
A federal judge gives a 30-month prison sentence to a Woonsocket man, the first person to be charged in Rhode Island under a 2006 federal law for failing to register as a sex offender when he moved into the state. Chief U.S. District [...]