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Saga of bodies found in barrels on Clinton property is fake news

By Joshua Gillin , Lynn Arditi

June 26, 2017

Says investigators have found remains of missing women in steel barrels buried on Bill and Hillary Clinton’s property.

Rep. David Cicilline says the Right-to-Carry Act would expand rights of “sex offenders, terrorists, child predators, and abusers to carry concealed weapons across state lines.”

By Lynn Arditi

January 1, 2012

Enacting the Right-to-Carry Act would amount to "expanding the rights of sex offenders, terrorists, child predators, and abusers to carry concealed weapons across state lines.’’

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse says U.S. spends 18 percent of its GDP on healthcare, far more than other nations

By Lynn Arditi

November 20, 2011

"The American healthcare system burns 18 percent of our national GDP. Nobody else is close."

Rhode Island AARP head Kathleen Connell says 60 percent of state retirees don’t get Social Security

By Lynn Arditi

November 13, 2011

"Sixty-percent of the state retirees...don’t get Social Security.’’

Gov. Lincoln Chafee says Rhode Island would be first state in U.S. to adopt hybrid retirement plan for public employees

By Lynn Arditi

November 2, 2011

"If Rhode Island does a hybrid [retirement] plan we’ll be the first state in the nation to do this.’’

Occupy Providence sign says Goldman Sachs CEO earns in an hour what minimum wage worker earns in a year

By Lynn Arditi

October 26, 2011

"Minimum wage = $16,000/year CEO-Goldman Sachs (Lloyd Blankfein) $16,000/Hour."

R.I. Rep. Edith Ajello says half of pregnancies in U.S. are unintended

By Lynn Arditi

October 21, 2011

"Nearly half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended."

David Quiroa says Rhode Island has allowed illegal immigrants to have drivers licenses in the past

By Lynn Arditi

October 16, 2011

"Under Governor Almond the RI DMV had a program that allowed undocumented [people to] use their Personal Tax Identification Number . . . to apply…

Law professor says R.I. has “roughly 15,000 undocumented immigrants.”

By Lynn Arditi

October 11, 2011

"The reality is that we have roughly 15,000 undocumented immigrants living in the state..."

Head of Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement says federal law prohibits granting in-state tuition to undocumented students

By Lynn Arditi

October 2, 2011

"[Federal] law says that you can't give in-state tuition to an illegal alien … unless you first offer it to any other student regardless of…

R.I. public employee unions say changes to state’s pension system have saved half a billion dollars

By Lynn Arditi

September 25, 2011

"In the past six years alone, changes to the pension formula … have saved over half a billion dollars."

Cicilline says he opposed a measure on use of deadly force by military members because it didn’t change existing rules of engagement

By Lynn Arditi

September 18, 2011

Says an amendment specifying when military members may use deadly force "does nothing to change existing rules of engagement for American service members."

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Saga of bodies found in barrels on Clinton property is fake news

Rep. David Cicilline says the Right-to-Carry Act would expand rights of “sex offenders, terrorists, child predators, and abusers to carry concealed weapons across state lines.”

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse says U.S. spends 18 percent of its GDP on healthcare, far more than other nations

Rhode Island AARP head Kathleen Connell says 60 percent of state retirees don’t get Social Security

Gov. Lincoln Chafee says Rhode Island would be first state in U.S. to adopt hybrid retirement plan for public employees

Occupy Providence sign says Goldman Sachs CEO earns in an hour what minimum wage worker earns in a year

R.I. Rep. Edith Ajello says half of pregnancies in U.S. are unintended

David Quiroa says Rhode Island has allowed illegal immigrants to have drivers licenses in the past

Law professor says R.I. has “roughly 15,000 undocumented immigrants.”

Head of Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement says federal law prohibits granting in-state tuition to undocumented students

R.I. public employee unions say changes to state’s pension system have saved half a billion dollars

Cicilline says he opposed a measure on use of deadly force by military members because it didn’t change existing rules of engagement