 Dee DeQuattro
If I hear the words hunker down one more time this week I might go insane. Between Governor Raimondo and local news broadcasters the phrase must have been used over a thousand times this week. If you played a drinking game to take a shot every time you heard the words you would have been dead within the first four hours of the storm. URI Geologist To Use Seismic Data To Understand Massive Underwater Geological Feature in Pacific1/29/2015  Scientists collaborating with URI Associate Professor Brian Savage install seismometers in Papua New Guinea to learn about the formation of the Ontong Java Plateau. (Photos courtesy of Brian Savage) A team of scientists led by a University of Rhode Island geologist is installing an array of seismometers in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific Ocean to study a massive underwater geological feature that could shed light on the evolution of Earth.
 With news this week about a Providence police officer who saved an overdosing man’s life by administering an opioid antagonist, Rep. David A. Bennett has introduced legislation that would require public schools that educate students in grades 6 through 12 to be equipped with such kits to treat opioid overdoses.
 Snow plow operator John J. Cunha, age 55, of 232 Partition Street, Warwick was arrested Tuesday for Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor and/or Drugs-1st offense, Blood Alcohol Content unknown and Refusal to Submit to a Chemical Test.
 Sen. Roger A. Picard has introduced legislation aimed at helping Rhode Islanders at economically vulnerable stages of life by providing them a break on state income taxes. The bill (2015-S 0021) would exempt from state income taxes the wages of working Rhode Islanders in the tax years through age 21 and all tax years after the year they turn 62. It would apply only to earned wages, not to pensions, investment income or other income.
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