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Political Scene: 3 tales from RI where everybody knows everybody else
Here are a few:
◘ The City of Providence has paid more than $390,000 so far in accidental disability benefits to one of the highest profile political operatives in Rhode Island for injuries suffered 17 years ago when his foot reached for the brake, and accidentally hit the gas.
◘ Providence mayoral candidate
Brett Smiley s lawyer doesn t deny that Smiley solicited $500 from state contractor
Colin Kane while he still headed the state agency that oversees the award of state contracts. But he is seeking to convince the Ethics Commission: it was okay.
◘ And finally, the R.I. Ethics Commission split 3-to-3 recently over the propriety of a state senator introducing a bill to allow one of her lawyer-husband s clients to get a liquor license in an off-limits zone on the East Side.
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ON TO THE NEXT ONE: President Joe Biden signed off on the $1.9 trillion Covid relief package yesterday, sealing the deal on a campaign promise and wrapping an eight-week sprint to get it done before March 14.
But even before the bill was signed, Democrats began deliberating what will be next. Infrastructure is a big topic of conversation, but the Biden administration is also scrambling to address surging migration at the border, including the number of children held at detention facilities. Both are already facing headwinds. And if the Covid relief bill was any indication, Biden and congressional leaders may be facing an uphill
Separately, the Chicago Police Department stopped using the New York company’s software last year after Clearview AI was sued in Cook County by the ACLU.
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