Independent candidate for Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci, Jr. has been endorsed by Defenders of Animals, a Providence-based organization whose mission is to defend the inalienable rights of both companion animals and wildlife through education, legal, and legislative activism.
For the first time ever, a new study conducted by Oxford Economics examines the broad economic impact the gaming industry as a whole has on the U.S. economy. The American Gaming Association released the first-of-its-kind study, which measures the economic impact of every facet of the casino gaming industry—commercial casinos and manufacturers and Native American casinos—as well as the industry's significant ripple effect on the supply chain, including local businesses.
Oxford's study found that the U.S. gaming industry:
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Breitbart.com has become one of the leading voices in the New Media. While the mainstream media wasted weeks covering the private prejudices of a basketball owner, and the overblown, soap-opera lawsuits which followed, the conservative website exposed the illegal immigrant youth crisis amassing along the Southern Border. While the mainstream media has given a pass to the Obama Administration’s floodgate of scandals, websites like Breitbart have attacked the corruption with an unwavering assiduousness. ![]() Amanda Lynch, director of Brown University’s Institute for the Study of Environment and Society (ISES), has been named a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). AMS fellows are elected on the basis of “outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substantial period of years.” Each year, the number of newly elected fellows is limited to 0.2 percent of the membership. This year’s class will be recognized at the AMS’s annual meeting to be held in January 2015. Following another violent weekend during which two men were stabbed outside an Atwells Avenue club on Federal Hill, Sen. Paul V. Jabour is calling for mandatory foot patrols and for a change of zoning for the nationally-renowned dining destination.
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