Good questions. My experience does provide a few suggestions. 1.) Not all Solicitors feel beholden to the Council they serve. The reason, in most Charters...
Calendar items that relate to the civic objectives of KnowingNewport -- see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowingNewport -- are encouraged and should be sent...
Liz Mathinos, of Friends of the Waterfront, is sharing the following information/opinion/request: The City of Newport has been approached to give away another...
The Candidates School, sponsored by Operation Clean Government, is a non-partisan educational seminar held every election year in Rhode Island. It's being held...
Read today's Newport Daily News editorial on the topic "R.I. politics needs fresh faces, ideas" The article showcases this one day course as an important way...
NEWPORT CANDIDATES: REAL IDEAS, REAL EXPERIENCE, & REAL ENERGY WANTED Do you think Newport is governed in a world-class manner? Is it accountable, effective,...
In light of the recent "Thank-you-now-please-get-back-in-your-Charter-defined-cage" letter that I received from the mayor (no doubt crafted by the city's...
In light of the recent "Thank-you-now-please-get-back-in-your- Charter-defined-cage" letter that I received from the mayor (no doubt crafted by the city's...
Congratulations to the Newport Public Schools for: -- supporting the 5th Grade, Thompson, and Rogers bands in the St Patrick's Day Parade. They looked and...
... From: "Burt Hoffman" <burt.hoff@...> To: "Christine H. Callahan" <rep-callahan@...>; "Lincoln Chafee"...
Burt Hoffman
burt.hoff@...
Mar 18, 2004 2:24 am
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Mr. Hoffman brings up a good point here. However, according to my reading of the Act, please remember that my background is political and not legal, it seems...
In response to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowingNewport/message/393 , which posed the question: "What "old thoughts" limit Newport's potential?" ...
* My health insurance co-pays and out of pocket costs have gone up again this year * The city's fresh study of health benefits show that it should have $113...
Today's Providence Journal ran the following story about Newport's schools: "Study finds schools fail financially" -- An independent organization predicts...
Excellent comments. The City Solicitor is supposed to review all city contracts. This is just the latest one we know about that clearly wasn't reviewed or at...
A new feature of KN will be to track the bills coming due to us lucky city taxpayers and to track ways that we may be asked to pay for these identified needs. ...
DEDICATION OF HISTORIC MARKER AT KING PARK Friends of the Waterfront (FoW)’s historic marker/visitors’ information sign of Newport Harbor will be dedicated...
lmathinos@...
Apr 16, 2004 3:33 am
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Just a quick question. At what level of government should our elected officials be held to rigid moral standards?........There will be more in the future...
why hasn't more been said about the unpaid loans that were recently revealed to the citizens of newport.. does anybody think for a minute that if that issue...
Look at the ethics ordinance of the city. Failure to pay a just debt is a removal from office offense. Where is the outrage? This is someone who is running...
macnewport@...
May 2, 2004 12:49 pm
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Dear Vanessa, If you mean ethical standards, it's at every level the highest order. However, when it comes to morals, what happens "outside the white lines" is...
The April Fools Day issue of Newport This Week said in the story "Newport secedes!" "At a meeting tonight, the city council is expected to cede control of the ...
You'd think that this would apply to a city elected official who owed money to the city. Worth checking? Excerpt from RI Ethics Commission home page at...
zardoz2324@...
May 3, 2004 8:37 pm
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Ethical standards are cited in many documents at the state level, but the power in this state to control ethical abuse rest in a committee which reminds me of...
The article should not be dead for many reasons. Why didn't the article include all persons on the list with the same data. What was the loan? When was the...
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