 As states continue to address the epidemic of heroin and opioid-based painkiller abuse and addiction and its devastating effect on public health and safety in communities, Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin and attorneys general from 37 states plus the District of Columbia today sent a letter to the leadership of the Committee on the Judiciary for the United States Senate and House of Representatives urging passage of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2015 (S. 524/HR 953).
 Adam Cole
Trump! I need a few seconds to prepare my proper short opinion, so I'll just complete this opening line by mentioning something cool like big, colorful moths that make you wonder if it's a butterfly. Now that we've had a fresh start to free us from the sudden shock of the all-consuming media virus named Trump, Let's all confirm, together, for a moment to remember that Trump has earned the title of "Reality TV Star." He's earned the Vegas Success trophy, as well as the Vegas Bankruptcy Medal of Dishonor. 
Kevin Aherne
We Americans love to complain about our taxes. We complain that they are too high, that the government is wasting our hard-earned money, and that we are subsidizing the laziness of our neighbors. But how many of us actually know where our money goes once we settle our tab with Uncle Sam? You hear people complaining about how welfare recipients are spending your hard-earned cash -- but did you know that the average taxpayer pays less than $40 annually to social welfare programs? On the other end of the spectrum, each taxpayer pays approximately $81 per year toward nuclear weapons, which haven't been used since 1945. In total, the average American taxpayer paid more than $3,000 to the military last year, or 27 percent of their total tax bill. If those raw data numbers don't work for you, check out our tool below. Just enter in your 2014 tax information below, and you will get a penny-by-penny breakdown of exactly how your money was spent. So next time you complain about your taxes, you will have factual information to back up your anger. Use our 2014 Taxpayer Receipt Tool below  Dee DeQuattro
The Republican Presidential Primary Race is like the Providence Mayoral race all over again -- but on a national level. As Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker bowed out of the race on Monday, he announced that he was leaving the race to “clear the field” so that another Republican can emerge and take down Donald Trump. This is not too far from the Providence Mayor Democratic Primary when Democrats were bowing out of the race to clear the way for a candidate who could take out Buddy Cianci. Ironically, at least in one point in his career Buddy Cianci was also known for his hair, similar to Donald Trump.  A ‘career con-man’ with twenty-one previous convictions for fraud has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for devising a scheme to deposit counterfeit bank checks into bank accounts he controlled then withdrawing some or all of the funds, and for violating the terms of supervised release on a previous federal conviction for fraud.
Michael P. Tatro, 45, was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Court Chief Judge William E. Smith to 46 months in prison for bank fraud and to a consecutive sentence of 24 months in prison for violating the terms of supervised release. Tatro was also ordered to serve 5 years of supervised release upon completion of his current prison term and to pay restitution to the banks defrauded in the amount of $45,427.91. |
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