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Showing posts with label Rhode Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rhode Island. Show all posts
Monday, November 4, 2024

'Repay evil with blessing,' Apostle Peter writes

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North Scituate Baptist Church , R.I. Swampyank at English Wikipedia via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 With Election Day tomorrow, this m...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Spoliation risk shows ill wisdom of state awarding contract to defendant in lawsuit over same project

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The eastbound span of the Washington Bridge remains functional. Jef Nickerson via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 The state of Rhode Island has found i...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

To contradict consistent record of impotence, DOT opens needed inquiry into airline miles programs

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Washington, D.C.— The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) last week opened an investigation of airline frequent-flier programs, and it'...
Friday, April 12, 2024

UMass Law inaugurates comparative law study abroad

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UMass Law School has announced a two-week study abroad program in Lisbon, Portugal, in partnership with Universidade Católica Portuguesa (...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Hertz/Thrifty takes reservations for cars it doesn't have, stranding customers; worse, that's the business model

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I've been locked in pre-litigation combat with Hertz Corp. for almost a year, and I'm tapping out. The problem is simple: The Thrift...
Sunday, February 11, 2024

Daggett discovered higher ed, world in senior life

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Olive Daggett, 1927-2023 Legacy.com Olive Daggett died on December 21, 2023, at the age of 96. Olive was a friend, a leader in my church, an...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Injured contractor finds no award in ruling spanning worker comp, premises liability, conflict of law

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Roof collapsed by snow (illustrative; not this case). Richard Allaway via Flickr CC BY 2.0 A worker hired to remedy a dangerous property co...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Armenia, Azerbaijan maintain tentative ceasefire

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Yerevan, Armenia: Opera House at center. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 At the time of this writing, an uneasy but long sought peace is hol...
Thursday, September 7, 2023

Denying public access to crash data, did state agency prioritize fear of litigation over public safety?

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Map of bicycle and pedestrian accidents in Providence, R.I., 2009-17, from Providence Great Streets Master Plan (2020) Rhode Island authori...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Students join labor demands for living wage at RISD

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(UPDATE, April 18: Labor and RISD reached a tentative agreement, Wazlavek tweeted last night.) The Rhode Island School of Design —famous al...
Friday, January 27, 2023

We're losing the war on heart disease

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Last week, my wife's life was at risk because we did not understand that women in heart distress do not necessarily experience the sympt...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Governor's proposed pay hikes evince typical bureaucratic ignorance of how working people earn

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Governor Dan McKee (Kenneth C. Zirkel CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia ) Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee's proposal for huge increases to sta...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

'Civil death,' denial of tort claims, violates prisoners' right of access to courts, R.I. high court holds

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N.C. State Archives public domain photo via Wikimedia Commons The Rhode Island Supreme Court in March struck down the state "civil dea...