 Dee DeQuattro
Great news tax payers! According to a WJAR I-Team report, $21,000 a week of tax payer money is going to pay state employees who are on administrative leave. That means they are payed to stay home, and it also means they are under investigation in their departments for some reason. Suspensions can continue as long as the investigation and/or administrative hearings continue and meanwhile tax payers have to foot the bill for these individuals temporary replacements and for these individuals to stay home. Speaking of leave... last week we had three DOT workers placed on leave and this week the chief medical examiner is placed on leave, all due to “a restructuring in the department.” Don’t you just love how bureaucracy phrases things.  Experts are saying that the world can have it, but current data on the development of new technologies show that the world won’t be ready to commercialize cleaner coal five years from now.
The U.S. is about 45% dependent on coal, but utility companies are slowly moving away from it. American Electric Power a major electricity provider in the U.S., said that it will be giving up over 6,500 megawatts of power – the quantity which covered about 90% of the demand from the company last year – generated by coal by the end of the second quarter of 2015. American Electric, along with other providers, will be using natural gas, which is as cheap as coal but emits fewer carbon emissions.  The ACLU of RI has filed a federal civil rights complaint against the Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) on behalf of a recent Italian immigrant whom the DMV has barred from taking the written driver’s license exam in any language other than English, Spanish or Portuguese. The complaint, filed with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), charges the DMV with violating a law that requires agencies receiving federal funding to provide meaningful access to programs and services for individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP).
 The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) has reopened the Park Avenue Bridge.
The bridge was closed on Tuesday, June 23. That same day, RIDOT reached out to contractors to solicit bids for repair, and a meeting was held with potential contractors on Thursday, June 25. On Friday, June 26, the Department awarded a $411,000 contract to John Rocchio Corp. Raimondo Directs U.S. Flag to Fly at Half-Staff in Honor of the Chattanooga Shooting Victims7/22/2015  In accordance with a presidential proclamation, Governor Gina M. Raimondo is lowering the U.S. flag and extending the lowering of the R.I. flag at all state facilities and buildings. The flags will remain at half-staff until Monday, July 27 in honor of the military members who were killed in the Chattanooga, Tennessee shooting.
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