Showing posts with label Marge Frank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marge Frank. Show all posts
Monday, December 8, 2014

The CCA: Political party … or cult?

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Part 2 of “ CCA rhetoric versus reality ” By Neniu Sciu Click here for Part 1 I have a confession to make. I’ve been calling t...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Likelihood of settlement in DiBello case increases

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Council schedules second closed-door meeting on DiBello case at town lawyer’s office in Warwick By Will Collette The Charlestown Town...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Dick Frank purged from the Zoning Board by the Charlestown Citizens Alliance

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Second board member ousted as CCA stacks Zoning with CCA loyalists The CCA Party will tolerate no deviation from their party line By...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Whalerock: Zoning Board hearing #3 produces a moment of enlightenment

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It’s not supposed to make sense By Will Collette OK, so I just got back from the third of a seemingly endless series of Zoning Boar...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Charlestown’s $50,000 Whalerock Special Counsel could be violating conflict of interest rules

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By representing two different client groups in the same case, Mancini could be failing them both By Will Collette NOTE: the second ...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

Charlestown women in politics

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REPRINT: Charlestown women in politics By Catherine O’Reilly Collette This resolution gave women the vote in Rhode Island Editor...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Still due: some straight answers from Councilor DiBello

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DiBello offers drama instead of facts DiBello on "Let's Make a Deal" on Oct. 4 where she contradicted what she wrote in...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Time for Answers from Councilor DiBello, Part 5

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Does Councilor Lisa DiBello plan to play “Let’s Make a Deal” with the CCA, Charlestown? By Will Collette Word around town is tha...
Monday, September 24, 2012

TONIGHT: CCA Surprise!

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Promises of consultation broken Planning Commission and Town Council pop short-notice workshop By Will Collette You just can’t be...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

TOWN COUNCIL: Big night for the banal

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Town Council postmortem New CPD Chief Jeffrey Allen By Will Collette Maybe we’re all just exhausted – or more likely sick and tir...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Town Council meeting – three hours of my life I’ll never get back

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Three hours of tedium punctuated by a pointless debate over affordable housing and a sprinkling of the surreal By Will Collette I...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Boss Gentz painted himself into an environmental corner

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Product Stewardship is pure common sense, except to him...He called it "onerous" By Will Collette One of Rep. Donna Walsh’...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Town admits the Charter Revision Advisory Committee violated the Open Meetings Act

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But claims the violation was “unintentional” By Will Collette For the second time this week, Charlestown town government had an “oo...
Monday, June 25, 2012

The Y-Gate Scandal – more deception surfaces

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Discoveries from deep within town records Sort of like the way Y-Gate was handled from the start. Read the rest of this Dilbert cartoon h...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Judge to issue ruling on part of the Donoghue v. Charlestown “Y-Gate” case

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Y-Gate lawsuit to continue Also, more from Avedisian testimony By Will Collette After a Town Council majority (Boss Tom Gentz , Gr...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

That was then, this is now

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CCA used to be irate about "secret" meetings, even perfectly legal executive sessions. Now they’re fine with them By Will Coll...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

“How do you kill a Zombie?”

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How do we stop the Y-Gate Zombie from stealing OUR tax dollars? Y-Gate - the issue that wouldn't die By Will Collette Despite ...

Who REALLY owns Ninigret Park?

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Confused Consensus, continued Charlie Vandemoer - "I'm not a lawyer" but here's my interpretation of the effect of  Gou...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

Y-Gate Zombie has risen from the dead

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Town Council plans to vote Monday to pay $398,000 in Charlestown taxpayer dollars for worthless easement By Will Collette Tucked in...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Charlie Vandemoer: Dupe or Duplicitous, Part 2

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The Battle for Ninigret Park begins By Will Collette Read: "Searching for a Home for the 'Ninigret Bomb'" by ...