That bitterly cold first day of the Raimondo Administration in early January seems like a very long long time ago. In her first five months, Governor Gina Raimondo has crisscrossed the state with a focused message that we heard repeatedly during the campaign: bring jobs back to Rhode Island and make the state business-friendly. In a […]
Do you have a nickname? Little Italy. My boyfriend gave it to me during our college days since I’m only 4’11” and Italian! What do you never leave home without? My aviator sunglasses. What’s your favorite movie? Anything that can scare the bejeesus out of me. But ultimately, Jaws gets first prize. What’s your favorite […]
The half dozen young people gathered at a community center in Woonsocket got something last month that many never had when going through school: a financial coaching session. Leading them step-by-step is Rachel Wall, Director of Coaching for The Capital Good Fund in Providence, a non-profit organization that over the past six years has helped […]
Dumb and Dumber As you are no doubt aware, Phillipe and Jorge are deep thinkers, and philosophical discussions at Casa Diablo often extend well into the night (fueled by frequent refills of Pernod and grapefruit and whatever we can find in the medicine cabinet that won’t knock us out). So it was in the wee […]
For over two hours on Wed, May 13, Jim Skeffington, principal representative of the new owners of the Pawtucket Red Sox AAA-level minor-league baseball team, faced a critical but generally polite crowd of 30 to 35 people at an open forum organized and moderated by Greg Nemes at the Design Office in Providence. In his […]
By far the most disturbing aspect of the proposal by the new owners of the Pawtucket Red Sox minor league baseball team to relocate to a stadium on the Providence waterfront is the time pressure and urgency resulting from a veiled threat to move the team out of Rhode Island if the General Assembly does […]
Ah, what’s a governor to do? It’s a hard call. Do you support a ballpark in Providence, to the delight of organized private labor unions that put you in office, or do you listen to the people who are tired of having the state take on more and more financial commitments? Sure, you may be […]
Ben Dover Stadium The shovels are singing and the horseshit flying as the new owners of the Pawtucket Red Sox have begun their pitch to the Capital City and Little Rhody in earnest. (Well, at least to-date the state, leaving the Providence City Council not amused by being blown off by the PawSox honchos.) The […]
The two-story brick building looks like a fortress — and it’s built like one. In fact, the old Bishop McVinney School was designated by the city of Providence as a nuclear fallout shelter in the 1960s. Constructed more than 75 years ago in the shadows of the Cranston Street Armory, the building was home to […]