Rep. Joseph M. McNamara (D-Dist. 19, Warwick, Cranston) has introduced legislation that would gradually change the way car value is assessed for taxes from clean retail value to trade-in value.
“Most people are not driving around in cars with clean retail value. Almost all of us have cars with trade-in value,” said Representative McNamara, chairman of the House Committee in Health, Education and Welfare. “A car is a necessity for working Rhode Islanders, and we’re taxing it on a false value. We have to work at re-establishing the trust people have in government. Without that trust, our system of taxation will not work when it’s based on false and unfair assessments.”
Sojourner House, a comprehensive domestic violence agency serving Providence and Northern Rhode Island, has announced that it will hold an educational training entitled “One in Two: The Link Between Women, HIV and Intimate Partner Violence” on Wednesday, February 3rd at the Knight Public Library from 2pm to 4pm.
The General Assembly will honor 8-year-old Dorian Murray of Westerly tomorrow with a resolution proclaiming Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016, as “#DSTRONG Day.”
Tony Jones
In Birmingham Jail in 1963, while under arrest for a non-violent demonstration, Martin Luther King met eight white priests who had recently published the letter ‘A Call for unity’. While the priests did concede the existence of social injustice, they expressed a belief that the battle against segregation should be fought in the courts, not in the streets. |
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