Yeah, thanks a lot, OP...now I have to stay inside for another 20 years till the curse is broken.

Terrible news if true. He's done great things for the program. If he held out longer, they probably would've made it somewhere. We all loved him at PC--he was one of our biggest faces and best representatives. But he's more than earned the right to follow his best interests. Wishing him the best!

I'm amazed that they're even considering tearing McCoy down. I get that it's functionally useless at the moment, but I wonder what baseball fans would think of the government trying to tear down the site of the longest baseball game ever played. That seems like enough historical reason to keep it, even if you only let local schools use it. Turn it into a museum or something. Especially since the new school they want to build there will probably be shit, given their track record this year of opening new elementary schools...

My sole objection to the building was aesthetic.

Want to build luxury housing in Providence? Think it will have a good effect on the economy? Whatever, go ahead--I'm not an economist, so I don't know what effects luxury/non-luxury/other types of housing would have.

But as a human with eyes, who appreciates aesthetic continuity, the building's proposed design was horrific. It did not fit in at all with the city's old-style skyline. It looked like some random film designer from Star Trek dropped a building from one file into another file for a 1900s historical documentary.

I do want to clarify: it's not that I don't think the city has a right to request a cut from Caprio and the show, or that they never did...

It's the fact that they say on their behinds and seemingly didn't care when the show was not that profitable, only to now suddenly get all butthurt over a situation they could easily have resolved years ago, that irritates me.

Was the show maybe a little wrong for not offering anything? Possibly, maybe even probably. But the city established an implied status quo for years by not saying anything about it, so for them to speak up now comes off as a bit grubby.

>"If I were the City of Providence, I would ask myself why this family has [potentially] been able to make millions and millions of dollars using city facilities and a city office, and the City of Providence hasn't received a dime." (City Council spokesman Parker Gavigan confirmed that the city receives no revenue from "Caught in Providence," according to the city finance department.)

I think it's more than a little ironic that the City of Providence accuses Caprio and his folks of being pieces of shit for capitalizing on the sudden fame they got from going viral, when the only reason they're complaining now is because he went viral, and the councilmen now have dollar signs in their eyes and want a cut of the loot.

They didn't complain about Caprio using their facilities when he was making squat from the show...now, suddenly, he hits it big, and they have a problem. Or, rather, one guy has a problem, because clearly his city councilman gig isn't good enough for him.

As if the biggest issue facing Providence right now is lack of royalties from a court show...and as if they currently aren't sitting on millions of dollars in COVID relief money that no one seems to be interested in spending on the city.

Probably a combination of the shuttle's huge blind spot and the fact that they accelerated through the turn instead of actually stopping at the intersection to look for pedestrians because the shuttle has such a huge blind spot.

Neither are the vaccinated dropping dead at greater numbers than would be expected, but nothing I say to verify that will ameliorate your willing ignorance, so it's not worth it.

Keep wondering, though...wondering about things is good, because eventually, you might actually learn something.

When 50+% of the population of any given area is vaccinated, obviously the majority of cases are going to be in vaccinated people, meaning that vaccinated people are more likely to get infected by sheer mathematics.

This is like saying that people who are born are 1000 times more likely to die than people who aren't born. As in, stupid.

IMO, it was a combination of the following:

1. Inherent bias towards authority figures (i.e. cops)
2. Inherent bias against the victim (i.e. "he shouldn't have been speeding," "he's a punk kid," etc.)
3. As someone else stated, while the whole video paints a general picture of Dolan being in the wrong (which should've swayed the jury), the actual moment of the shooting is a bit obscured, meaning that we cannot see for sure whether Dolan was in the path of the fleeing car, as he claimed he was, when he fired. This shouldn't really have been enough to create reasonable doubt, but if you willingly ignore the context of him chasing the kids down and choosing to exit his vehicle (which you would be more willing to do if you fit Numbers 1 and 2), it might clear your personal bar for "reasonable doubt."

>We have a student who came to America with "Coyote", which is a group that helps people. This group gives you a time frame to make a payment of $5000 dollars to those, who bring them to the states. [Emphasis Added]

She apparently has a doctorate in education, is the assistant principal of an educational institution, and yet somehow never learned that you don't put a comma there...or that the comma after "Coyote" should go within the quotation marks...or that "timeframe" is one word.

I know pedantry over grammar is somewhat frowned upon these days, but come on, lady. You're responsible for educating people. Can you at least run your emails through Grammarly before you send them? If not for correctness' sake, then at least so you don't look more ignorant than you already do for not being aware that coyotes are a nefarious cartel?

It's a radio commercial, so you can't fast-forward.

I agree with everyone that the Caramel deLights are incredible, but I think their one flaw is that they can get very overpowering quickly. Thin Mints, on the other hand, are very light. You could inhale an entire sleeve of those without getting grossed out.

Not that you should do that, of course...and not that I have...🙃

Stuffie!

Not mentioned in the linked article, but mentioned here:

>“Principal Robert DiMuccio was inadvertently cut on his arm and required medical attention. Fortunately, Principal DiMuccio was treated for his injuries and will return to work today."

The thing is, this isn't about the packing at all. The Council isn't proposing this because they care about college kids being too tightly packed. They're doing it because college kids are supposedly "taking away" homes from actual city residents.

Which, in theory, should mean the Council would support more college kids per home, not fewer, in order to free up more buildings...

“We need to open up more space for our own residents, not college students. Quick! Let’s make it so that you can’t have more than three college students in one house, meaning that they’ll necessarily have to take up more buildings, which will likely still be in Providence, thus invalidating our entire goal.”

We elect unfathomably stupid people…

Is Elorza ever not in conflict with somebody?

I see your point, but she's definitely opened herself up to it with her flaky attitude. She's even admitted that she might leave if she loses. She doesn't seem to care about being perceived as an outsider, so it begs the question of why she should be given a courtesy she clearly isn't interested in asking for herself.

I hate it when politicians use their kids as political mouthpieces. It was bad enough when Gina did that ad with her and her kids on the bikes talking about schools and shit. Seeing this poor kid being forced to talk about how Dan McKee and Joe Biden are ruining America is just sad. He's too young to be involved in this crap, and the fact that it's his own mother exploiting him--and very likely opening him up to a lot of bullying, due to the fact that his mom's opinions are not in vogue around here--just makes it worse.

I don't care if you want to show them or something, but for God's sake, don't have them say anything. Let them keep their innocence for a bit...

I didn't watch the debate, but I could probably recreate exactly how it went down with little effort, and your description validates that thought.

The two candidates are just very transparent, in their own separate ways. McKee is low-energy because he knows that he's probably going to win regardless, and because he's just a milquetoast moderate RI "Democrat" with very few ideas and an aim to coast through his term. He knows that he's "the best we've got" at the moment, and that Kalus is basically all bluster, so he's not going to bother expending much effort to beat her, because all he has to do is spout the basic anti-Republican, vaguely-progressive talking points, as this will automatically put him over the edge with most voters.

Kalus, meanwhile, is just an opportunist: she sees RI as an easy target for injecting a bit of the right-wing resurgence Trump brought about in 2016, and she's basically shoehorned her way in because no other Republican would even bother to try and oust a governor from a state that staunchly votes blue (regardless of how barely leftist RI Democrats actually are). She strikes me as something of a grifter, which is evidenced by the fact that she's hardly a Rhode Islander, in practice or in name. She's basically throwing shit at the wall to see if it will stick. If and when she loses, my guess is she'll leave the state and go back to Illinois.

Tony inhaling that sandwich like George Costanza with his ice cream sundae.

Good for him! Everyone loves a good grinder!

All political ads are terrible, IMO. I can't think of a single political ad I've ever seen that has ever inspired an ounce of desire in me to vote for the candidate. I think they hurt more than they help, because people dread political ad season, and the ceaseless repetition of them makes them really intrusive and annoying, which is counterproductive to the intent.