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From RILPAC : Providence, RI –At its scheduled annual meeting on Saturday, January 30, 2009, the Rhode Island Latino Political Action Committee (RILPAC) elected its 2009-2011 Board of Directors. RILPAC has been very effective in influencing the local...
From the DL team : What a difference a year can make! DL Providence is celebrating it's first anniversary this month, and we've received the best presents of all: a new President, a new administration, a new Congress, and -- in the words of President...
Cliff Montiero , president of the Providence chapter of the NAACP, says he may seek support from his national organization to bring legal action challenging the paucity of minorities in municipal public safety positions in some Rhode Island communities...
Old friend Anna Galland, formerly the local director of the American Friends Service Committee , and now the national field director for MoveOn, will be in town this weekend to talk about her experience on the campaign trail and elsewhere. She writes...
-- In terms of so many schools canceling school today -- with nary an accumulation of snow yet on the ground -- is it that we hardy New Englanders have turned into a bunch of cringing weenies? -- US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse , a fellow former US attorney...
You would hope the answer is "Yes!" Alternate plans for the future of the library are due to be unveiled at City Hall by a new group at 5:30 this evening. From the Library Reform Group blog : At 5:30 p.m. on Monday, January 5, representatives...
Obama's inauguration remains weeks away, but discontent about the direction of his administration is already simmering among some of his liberal supporters. Deirdre Fulton and Jeff Inglis, two of my colleagues at the Portland Phoenix, write about...
Speaking at the Hi-Hat during FairVote RI's Ballot Bash last night, Hendrik Hertzberg talked up the national popular vote concept as a way of enhancing democracy. As he noted, the 50 US states are divided into battlegrounds and spectators because...
Matt Sledge recently posted about this event elsewhere in blogland: There will be plenty more information to come in the coming weeks, but I wanted to give everyone on RI Future the first look at a big event FairVote Rhode Island has planned: New Yorker...
Common Cause of RI has a successor to Christine Lopes : John Marion has been named the Executive Director of Common Cause RI. Common Cause RI is a non-partisan advocacy group which works for open, ethical and accountable government. Marion takes the helm...
A controversy concerning a recent action by Brown University members of Students for a Democratic Society has continued to swirl on College Hill -- and it can be expected to heat up anew tomorrow. From the BDH : A University Disciplinary Council hearing...
This ain't Tony the Dancing Cop . From the marketing visionaries at PETA : PETA'S SEXY 'FASHION POLICE' CRACK DOWN ON LEATHER Hot Ladies in Naughty Pleather Cop Costumes Will 'Bust' Anyone Wearing Clothing Stolen From Animals What...
In terms of furthering the third-party cause in RI, Ken Block sends this along: This will take less than one minute of your time. The Moderate Party of Rhode Island has an important meeting next week with Rhode Island Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis...
A few weeks back, the Phoenix offered a look at the third-party presidential candidates on the RI ballot -- not much, admittedly, but more than I saw anywhere else locally. Now, writing in the Sun of Baltimore (h/t Romenesko ), journalism professor John...
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