The state Division of Motor Vehicles is sharing personal information about innocent Rhode Islanders with a growing federal anti-terrorism database, the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island charged today. The ACLU has called on the DMV to stop sharing the data and to publicly justify its decision to participate in the first place.
The University of Rhode Island and the URI Foundation will announce today at the engineering bond campaign kick-off that the Taco White Family Foundation will donate $400,000 to the University to support the College of Engineering. Of the gift total, $300,000 will support proposed new engineering facilities on the Kingston campus, which hinges on the passage of the $125 million high education facilities bond referendum that will appear on the November 4 ballot.
Arthur Christopher Schaper Attorney General Eric Holder has resigned. With the longest tenure as the chief law enforcement officer during any Presidential administration (six years), Holder entered on a controversial record, sparking concerns from law and order types as well as constitutional conservatives, and just about anyone else who would expect the rule of law, as opposed to the rule of men, from the Attorney General’s office. An aggressive activist in race relations during his youth, Holder joined the Columbia University take-over of an empty ROTC office. He has prided himself on this activism to this day. As a deputy attorney general during the Clinton Administration, Holder argued that liberals needed to subvert the media and the minds of Americans to support gun-control. Not just once a week, Holder argued, but every day, until Americans were “brainwashed” to think about guns a different way. Other blights on Holder’s record pre-confirmation included involvement in a last-minute Presidential pardon during the Clinton administration for billionaire oil magnate Mark Rich. His crime? Billion-dollar tax evasion. Did Rich’s campaign contributions to Bill and Hillary expedite this pardon? Paul F. Pytko, 49, owner of Pytko Construction Corp. in North Smithfield, R.I., was sentenced today to 3 years probation, to include 20 weekends of incarceration at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, for concealing the sale of a company asset that he agreed to sell in order to satisfy taxes owed to the IRS, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation and Vincent B. Lisi, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Office of the FBI.
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Buddy Cianci comes out on top this week, literally, leading a recent poll by WPRI-TV and the Providence Journal. It seems people in Providence are not all that concerned that the former mayor served time in federal prison on a corruption charge, instead, it seems that they trust Cianci to get the capital city back on track. What's a yoot? Cianci’s biggest opponent Jorge Elorza is trailing by 8 points although Elorza is more popular among young people. That means Cianci needs to step it up on social media and target a message toward a younger crowd. No, the younger crowd doesn’t remember the city back in 1999, most of them were little kids more concerned about watching Bugs Bunny and less concerned with economic development in the city. Cianci also enjoyed the endorsement of the Providence Firefighters and police union. |
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