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PVDFest: Out Damn Spot
The shooting of innocent bystander Michael Marrow during the PVDFest on June 3, 2017 was the predictable result of the City’s failure to follow its own established procedures to safeguard its residents. With Marrow left paraplegic for life, what’s done … Continue reading
Posted in Access, Investigations, Providence Board of Licenses
Tagged #Brian Crandall, #David Ellison, #Department of Arts Culture and Tourism, #DJ Famous, #Don King, #Emily Crowell, #entertainment license, #First Works, #Global Food Village, #Jennifer Bogdan, #Jennifer Freitas, #Jewelry District, #Jorge Elorza, #Juan Pichardo, #Leti Garza and Friends, #Lindsay Lague, #Lizzie Araujo, #Michael Marrow, #Neil Remiesiewicz, #Nick-A-Nees, #open container rule, #police detail, #Providence, #Providence Cultural Equity Initiative, #Providence Journal, #Providence Police Department, #Public Records Unit, #PVDFest, #Raymond Watson, #Rhode Island Foundation, #Serena Conley, #Sharon Steele, #The District, #The Loft, #WJAR, #Women and Infants Hospital, #WPRI
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Suboxone II: Pitch-Black Emails, Zurier’s Redcoats, and Fuzzy-Gray Policy
A Secret Legal Memo? On April 24, 2017, neighbors of the planned suboxone facility at 150 Lloyd Avenue on Providence’s College Hill had an opportunity to express their concerns and seek information from a panel of city and state representatives … Continue reading
Posted in Access, Investigations
Tagged #College Hill Neighborhood Association, #Department of Inspections and Standards, #Hope High School, #Ivy Spa, #Jason Martin, #Jeffrey Lykins, #Jennifer Stevens, #Jorge Elorza, #Josh Eisen, #Kevin Savage, #Megan DiSanto, #Peter Asen, #Providence, #Public Records Request, #Public Records Unit, #Sam Zurier, #Suboxone, #William E. Connor, #Zoning Board of Review
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Was I Paying the City of Providence for an Aborted Cover-Up?
In The City That Doesn’t Work, I described a trove of licenses that were supposedly approved by phantom commissioners who were not yet on the Board of Licenses. When the City charged me $190 for spending 12 hours and 40 … Continue reading
Posted in Providence Board of Licenses
Tagged #Access to Public Records Act, #APRA, #Board of Licenses, #Call time, #Charles Newton, #Club Therapy, #David Ellison, #Department of Business Regulation, #Dusk 2 Dawn, #Etie Schaub, #Happy Beats, #Jorge Elorza, #Kathryn Sabatini, #Lori Franchina, #Louis DeSimone, #Mario Martone, #Nicholas Hemond, #Olneyville, #Providence, #Public Records Unit, #Ramona Liberato, #Samuel A. Budway, #Serena Conley, #Station Nightclub Fire, #Steven Pare, #Zoning Board of Review
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Who’s Minding the Board?
From 1/1/2014 through 3/14/2016, the Providence Board of Licenses imposed a total of $230,800 in fines on nightclubs, bars, restaurants, liquor stores and other establishments for violations of the law. The Board also closed some establishments temporarily, issued warnings to … Continue reading
The Secret Life of Jorge Elorza
On March 12, 2016, I asked the Public Records Unit of the City of Providence for “Copies of Mayor Jorge Elorza’s schedules for all available dates from January 1, 2015 to the present.” The City responded that it would charge … Continue reading
Posted in Access, Transparency
Tagged #Access to Public Records Act, #Ann Little, #Attorney General of Rhode Island, #Brett Smiley, #Call time, #CFO-Compliance, #City Solicitor, #David Ellison, #Guatemala Debrief, #Johanna Harris, #Jorge Elorza, #Lisa Pinsonneault, #Marisa O'Gara, #Providence, #Public Records Unit, #Tony Simon, #Transparency
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