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Posted Friday, August 26, 2011
Hispanic Cultural Leaders Memorialize Miguel Luna
The presidents of the two Hispanic cultural organizations with major festival events during Councilman
Miguel Luna’s brief illness both spoke at the Memorial Service for Luna at the Roger Williams Park Casino
in Providence . Both festivals had kept Miguel in their prayers, and the Puerto Rican Festival had a moment
of silence during the festival to remember the fallen councilman. Marilyn Cepeda Sánchez, President of
Quisqueya en Acción and Vivian Moreno, President of the Puerto Rican Cultural Festival & Parade of RI
both ... More on the story here:

 

 

Posted Thursday, August 25, 2011
RI Puerto Rican Festival is Huge Success
Culture, Arts and Puerto Rican Pride take Center Stage
(Providence, Rhode Island, USA) The Puerto Rican Cultural Festival and Parade of Rhode Island
held their 26th parade to their festival at Roger Williams Park last Sunday with a record crowd, plenty
of cultural music, dance, a salsa dance contest and respect for the passing of Councilman Miguel Luna
with a festival moment of absolute silence and black ribbons worn in the parade.

The parade stepped off with Mayor Taveras’ Official Car leading the way followed by...
More on the story here:

 

Posted Saturday, May 24, 2010
UPR Strike in its 33rd Day
Student Run Radio (www.radiohuelga.com) Continues to Broadcast
(San Juan, Puerto Rico)  The unprecedented strike at the University of Puerto Rico which began at the main
Rio Piedras campus has swept over to 10 of the university's 11 campuses, cost one campus rector her job
and landed the student negotiating committee in court. It is now in its 33rd day .

After a student protest on Thursday against Gov. Luis Fortuño ended with injuries, arrests and pepper spray,
hundreds of students rallied at Plaza de las Americas, San Juan's largest shopping mall on Saturday while
more than 1,000 faculty have voted to continue the strike should university officials end it by using police force
against students. Faculty also called for the president and board chairwoman's ousters.
More on the story here:

Posted Saturday, May 15, 2010

Student Strike escalates at Largest Caribbean University
Now in its 24th day
(Puerto Rico, USA) A student strike at the largest University in the Caribbean, the University of Puerto Rico (UPR)
now in its 24th day is escalating with a university shutdown, students being ordered to leave their on-campus residences,
police riot squads called in and surround the campus, a parent manhandled by police and a judge ordering that food
and water must be allowed in to the campus.  More on the story - Click Here.


Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2010
National Arts Club Roundtable Exhibition 2010
Nearly 50 Artists Shine
(New York, NY)  Individual artists sponsored by National Arts Club members exhibited their work at the private club
on Monday, April 19th.  Founded in 1898, the club membership has boasted a number of celebrities including
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.   As the Art Club of record, the Club's archival records from 1898 to1960,
are housed at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C..
More on the Roundtable Exhibit - & Photo Gallery - Click here:

Club member Guy Frazer is wowed by
artist Christina Bolinger's submission

Club organizer & artist Kathy Anderson
with her 2010 submission

The Plaque says it all


Posted Sunday, April 18, 2010
RI News of Puerto Rico birth certificates
(Providence, Rhode Island)  Providence Journal reporter Donita Naylor interviewed Luis Balzac for the latest piece in the ProJo Sunday paper.  This is such an important issue in the Latino community throughout New England that we have provided links to the ProJo story here:
PR Birth Certificates Story in ProJo - April 18th, 2010


Other info on the RI News Conference here:
Additional information for Reporters here:   Other Background info here

and actual raw video footage is here:

RI WJAR-10 News Story  by Bill Rapleye here (March 26th, 2010):
http://www2.turnto10.com/jar/news/local/local_govtpolitics/article/puerto_rican_birth_certificates_to_become_invalid/33722/

Posted Friday, April 9, 2010
Artist Christina Bolinger to exhibit at NY Arts Club
Invited for third encore at
National Arts Club Roundtable Exhibition

(New York, NY)  Christina Bolinger, formerly of Moosup Ct and Providence RI will exhibit at the New York
National Arts Club Roundtable Exhibition on April 19th in Manhattan.  This will be the third consecutive year
Christina has been invited to exhibit her work as one of 50 exhibitors.
Christina will personally attend the Exhibit on Opening Day
Monday April 19th between 6pm and 8pm.

The Exhibit is located at 20th Street between Irving and Park.
Christina will also be hosting an after party at the Whiskey Rebel
Same evening from 9pm - 12am
129 Lexington between 28th and 29th Streets.

Media is invited.  More information on Christina Bolinger - click here

Posted Sunday, March 27, 2010
All Puerto Rico birth certificates will be invalid on July 1st 2010
Director corrects media mis-information, calms Puerto Rican' anxiety and fear
(Pawtucket, Rhode Island) 'All Puerto Rico birth certificates will be invalid on July 1st 2010,' Luis Balzac, Director of Puerto Rico Federal Affairs for the NY Region made clear at a Public News Conference at Iglesia Getsemani Church Public News Conference on Friday, March 26th. 

Balzac was flanked by RI Representative Scott A. Slater who plans to introduce a resolution for a grace period to accept Puerto Rico birth certificates beyond July 1st in Rhode Island.  Scott was joined by Joel S. Almeida, Peter F. Kilmartin and RI Senator Juan M. Pichardo who share Slater's view on the impact on Rhode Island and its citizens, making Rhode Island the first State to consider this action.  They were joined by Providence Councilman John Lombardi, Brenda Burgos, Ivette Solivan & Harry Ruiz of the Puerto Rican Heritage Committee of Rhode Island, Vivian Moreno, Carmen Bucholz, Cynthia Velez, and Doris Hernandez of the Puerto Rican Cultural Festival and Parade of Rhode Island, and representatives of other latino organizations including Gabriel Martinez and Alexander Parmenidez of the Colombian American Cultural Society.  The event was moderated by Manolo Pazos, well known to the latino community in New England, New York and Latin America.

The complete un-edited news conference footage is here:  http://www.files1.cjb.net/prguynow/Newsconf032610/prconference/prnewsconf.html.  Balzac spoke completely in English, while some questions, comments and moderator Pazos spoke in English and Spanish.

A dubbed cross-language copy will be made available shortly.

 

Posted Sunday, March 24, 2010
Dr. Manolo Pazos to Moderate News Conference for Puerto Rico Birth Certificates
Iglesia Getsemani Church on 38 Park Street in Pawtucket, Rhode Island on Friday, March 26th at 1:30pm.
(Providence, Rhode Island) Doctor Manolo Pazos, international radio personality and the "Voice of America" familiar to many latinos in New England, New York and Latin America has been chosen by the Puerto Rican Cultural Festival and Parade of Rhode Island, the Puerto Rican Heritage Committee of Rhode Island and others to moderate a public news conference at the Iglesia Getsemani Church on 38 Park Street in Pawtucket, Rhode Island on Friday, March 26th at 1:30pm.
Additional information for Reporters here:   Other Background info here


Posted Sunday, March 15, 2010
Rhode Island Rep Scott A. Slater to Assist Puerto Rican born US Citizens
(Providence, RI)  Scott A. Slater will be proposing a resolution in the Rhode Island house to extend the revocation of Puerto Rican Birth Certificates from July 1st 2010 until October 1st 2010 to ease the strain on United States Citizens who are also Rhode Island Residents that were born in Puerto Rico.

In a letter Press Dept News obtained addressed to Luis M. Balzac, Director of the New York Regional Office of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, Slater represented that he would be holding a news conference to announce his intention to file a resolution in the Rhode Island house.

As part of a crackdown on identity fraud, the Puerto Rico Legislature revoked all birth certificates regardless of age or health.  All Puerto Rico Birth certificates dated prior to July 1st 2010 will be void and a new one must be obtained.  Additional info for reporters here:  .



Posted Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Cianci Rumor:  Congressman Kennedy's Seat
(Providence, RI)  Twice Former Mayor, Convicted Felon and celebrity talk show host Vincent "Buddy" Cianci has been making calls for support in a bid for US Congressman Patrick Kennedy according to sources.  The calls began shortly after Cianci hosted Rhode Island's Catholic bishop the Most Rev. Thomas J. Tobin on his radio show. 

Citadel Broadcasting, the parent company for WPRO-AM where Cianci's show originates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in mid-December, freeing it to renegotiate existing contracts like Cianci's.  WLNE aka ABC6 (where Buddy is their Chief Political Analyst) like many media in Rhode Island is also perceived to have financial woes. 

Congressman Kennedy's First Congressional District includes Providence where "Buddy" still enjoys support, and the Federal Office does not come under the RI Constitutional Amendment of 1986 which states a convicted felon cannot run until three years after his probation ends (2012). 

Kennedy's public conflict with Bishop Tobin is well known, and Kennedy is up for relection in 2010.

Cianci photo courtesy of WLNE   Kennedy photo from Official Site

Posted Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
United Kingdom National Security Services:
MI5 Knew Jet Bomber's UK Extremist Links for 3 Years
(London, UK) British Security Services knew three years ago that the Detroit bomber had "multiple communications" with Islamic extremists in Britain.  Counterterrorism officials said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was "reaching out" to extremists whom MI5 had under surveillance while he was studying at University College London.  None of this information was passed to American officials, which will prompt questions about intelligence failures prior to the attack. British officials have now passed a file to their US counterparts on Abdulmutallab’s activities in Britain while he was a student from 2005 to 2008. It shows his repeated contacts with MI5 targets who were subject to phone taps, email intercepts and other forms of surveillance.

More at:  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6973954.ece

Posted Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
Lombardi to decide on Mayoral Race by February 17th
(Providence, Rhode Island)
John J. Lombardi, Providence Ward 13 Councilman has announced he will make a formal announcement regarding his personal political future by February 17th stating that  "The long, dark night of Providence without leadership soon will be over."
More at:  http://lombardiforprovidence.com
Related PROJO STORY:   Lombardi likes poll numbers for run against Cicilline
Related Blog on RI FUTURE: http://rifuture.org/myblog/john-lombardi-one-step-closer-to-a-mayoral-run.html

Posted Friday, December 25th, 2009
More on the

OBAMA Health Care Bill

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Medicare Advantage, an important program for 10 million elderly, will be gutted and replaced
   by Medigap insurance, which is more limited in coverage, higher in cost and more profitable
   to the AARP.
- Medical devices -- from pacemakers to automated wheelchairs -- will still be taxed, and
   sick people will be forced to pay higher taxes and deduct fewer of their medical costs.
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Reimbursements under Medicare are likely to continue to drop, forcing more and more
   providers to refuse to treat patients under the program.
- An individual mandate penalty that could go as high as $1,900.
- The IRS can take legal action against those who fail to pay the mandate penalty.
- In the House version
(HR 3962), penalites imposed would range from a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty.
(Sourced from Thomas Barthold, chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation handwritten note
to Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev.)



Posted Thursday, December 24th, 2009
Carcieri Letters to Whitehouse and Reid:
OBAMA Health Care Bill not good for Rhode Island
Governor Donald L. Carcieri has written letters to U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse
urging them to oppose the most current version of national health care reform legislation. The Governor
warns that the bill is too costly, and will have an immediate and adverse impact on our already
struggling state economy.

Click letter pictures to read each letter

Posted Wednesday, December 23th, 2009
Basciano Tradition Continues . . .
Times Square Christmas Eve Dinner Event Slated
Since 2006, Richard Basciano, found of Times Square Arts Center has again continued the tradition
started with Richard and Jamie Masada of Laugh Factory fame to hold a Christmas Dinner Event with all the trimmings on Christmas Eve from 1 pm to 6 pm for needy families, veterans, servicemen and anyone alone this holiday season.  As always, Santa and his elves will be on hand and each child accompanied by their parent will receive a Christmas Toy.  Joe Franklin and the USO are also part of this event.  All are invited for this festive celebration of food and fun for this fourth annual event.  Dinner will be provided from 1pm to 5:30 pm
on Christmas Eve. The Times Square Arts Center is at 669 8th Ave. between 42nd & 43rd St. Times Square.

Posted Wednesday, December 23th, 2009
CARCIERI:
What did RI Congressman Patrick Kennedy & Jim Langevin or
Senators Jack Reid & Sheldon Whitehouse bring back to Rhode Island?
Health Bill Concessions granted by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid to Senator Ben Nelson(D-NE) to remove antitrust regulations for Blue Cross and others, Senator Blanche Lincoln(D-AR) for more time to review and ask for favors later, and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) got $300 million for Louisiana - more than 20 times what was paid for that state.  RI Governor Carcieri asked rhetorically, "What did Rhode Island get?  Where was OUR representation with 73,000 Rhode Islanders out of work and a project Rhode Island Deficit of over $415 million in 2011?"  Others echoed, "What is Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse doing for Rhode Islanders?  Where was Patrick Kennedy and Jim Langevin?  Who is looking out for Rhode Island?"

Posted Wednesday, December 19th, 2009
United States Congress - Health Care Bill:

- $1000 fine if you don't buy Health Insurance
- Insurance is anticipated to cost up to $1,500 per year
- Federal Subsidies can be requested after you first spend 15% of your paycheck
- Congress taxes pacemakers and wheelchairs
- Jail or a $25,000 fine can be assessed against those who do not pay the mandate penalty
   for not getting insurance.
 

Click picture to see video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCG08EoNvoA&feature=player_embedded#

Posted Thursday, December 8, 2009
ABC Networks blocks League of American Voters ad

In a quiet fight over airtime, the League of American Voters claims ABC has refused to air
it’s “anti-Obamacare” ad, but most media outlets haven’t taken notice. The ad exemplifies
how the war of words over health care reform has made the senior vote the major
battleground with ads like this one by The League of American Voters.  This one focused on seniors.

Click picture to see video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdgeSw3QqYk&feature=player_embedded

Posted Wednesday, December 6th, 2009
Parrandón Navideño Christmas Success
Heritage Committee event attracts many
(Providence, Rhode Island) Rhode Island's first "Parrandón Navideño" put on by The Puerto Rican Heritage Committee & Parade of Rhode Island featured Christmas Festivities of traditional music, food, folklore, rhythms, dance and fun at the Cranston Portuguese Club last Saturday night.  Despite the cold snap with snow and icy driving conditions, the event was packed . Photos at www.prhcpri.com


Posted Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Puerto Rican "Parrandón Navideño" Christmas Festival Slated
Heritage Committee makes all RI Youth a priority
(Providence, Rhode Island) The Puerto Rican Heritage Committee & Parade of Rhode Island will host their first cultural "Parrandón Navideño" with Christmas Festivities of traditional music, food, folklore, rhythms, dance and fun on Saturday, December 5th at the Cranston Portuguese Club.  The event will feature Latino Caribbean traditions that commemorate the birth of Jesus and an opportunity for all Rhode Islanders to fellowship and develop an awareness, understanding, and appreciation for our Latin cultures during this Christmas holiday celebration.  The newly formed Puerto Rican Heritage Committee will also formally announce its dedication to family and social issues with goals of helping and challenging all Rhode Islanders to work together and achieve a real future by staying in school, out of the streets and away from the gangs.
More at www.prhcpri.com

Posted Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Existing ACORN Contracts still being honored
The Justice Department has instructed federal agencies to honor contracts with ACORN that
were signed before Congress banned the community advocacy organization from receiving
any further government funding earlier this year. In an opinion issued in late October and released
on Friday, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel determined that lawmakers were
unclear on whether agencies should terminate pre-existing contracts with ACORN, which stands
for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
More on ACORN Contracts which Congress suspended here:


Posted Monday, November 9, 2009
OBAMA / Pelosi House Bill:
No Insurance?  Go to JAIL !

Dave Camp (R-MI), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee released a letter
from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that noncompliance with the
individual mandate to buy health insurance (contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended))
could land people in jail.  The JCT letter states clearly that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable
health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.



Posted Saturday, October 31, 2009
Sen. Harry Reid wishes ill for Nevada's largest Newspaper
Senator Harry Reid, at a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Luncheon, advised Bob Brown, the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Director of Advertising, during the simple process of handshaking that "I hope you go out of business."  Later, in his public speech, Senator Reid said he wanted to let everyone know that he wants the Review-Journal to continue selling advertising because the Las Vegas Sun is delivered inside the Review-Journal.  In response, Publisher Sherman Frederick posted an Op-Ed column in which he called Reid's tactics childish, ugly, boorish, creepy, and asinine and ends with "...we serve notice on Sen. Reid that this creepy tactic will not be tolerated."  Reid is up for election in 2010.  More on this story here:  http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/56171937.html

 


Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009
National Health Care
"OPT OUT" rather than "OPT IN" designed to FAVOR FED PUBLIC OPTION

Senator Harry Reid has announced that the current health care bill version will include an "opt-out public option" so while the government-run plan for every citizen will be available, their state government can choose to opt out of the program by 2014 or they become part of the national health program. 

By creating an "opt-out" rather than an "opt-in" provision, it allows one part of each of the 24 "mixed government" states to hold out through filibuster or delay until the 2014 deadline when the plan goes into effect forcing that state into the public plan option.  The Health Plan votes seem to run along party lines with Democrats for and Republicans against.

There are 24 states where Democrats and Republicans share control of government among the legislative and executive branches which mean likely disputes forcing them into the plan, and 17 states where the governor is a Democrat and both houses of the legislature are controlled by Democrats totalling 41 states.

Republicans control 9 states including Texas, Utah, South Carolina, South Dakota, North Dakota, Missouri, Idaho, Florida, and Georgia which represent about 25 percent of the U.S. population. (Nearly all of that is from Texas and Florida).
 

Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009
Christina Bolinger Works to Exhibit in NYC
(Moosup, CT & New York, NY) Abstract artist, painter and Connecticut native Christina Bolinger has been selected to appear with some of her works at an art and fashion event hosted by Eccoci in New York City.  Other artists appearing with Christina during the three hour event will be noted landscape photographer Mario Newball, custom handbag designer Jeff Poulin, fashion sketch artist and painter Maria Delpointe and Couture Jewelry Designer Alicia Piller.
News Reporter info page here

Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009
Hope City Homeless to get Jobs, a Place to Stay & Movie Documentary
(Providence, Rhode Island) Local contractor Jim Rienke, Chief Wilfred Greene with Germaine Greene of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe, Reverend Mary Margaret Earle of McAuley House, David Angell of LexFilm Productions, Bill Scott & Cendy Gonzalez of Amos House and Jo Jo Gator of the WALE990am Mid Day Madness show announced their plans to help the Hope City Tent City Homeless today with jobs, a place to stay and a documentary movie.
News Reporter info page here

Posted Thursday, July 11, 2009
(New York, NY)
Laugh Factory, Inc., Jamie Masada, Times Square Arts Center
and Richard Basciano recently announced that they have reached an agreement,
resolving a lawsuit that claimed Times Square Arts Center and Richard Basciano

infringed the Laugh Factory trademark and logo.  Jamie Masada, who initiated
the action has withdrawn the allegations made in the lawsuit and apologized
for the misunderstandings that led to the complaint.  News Reporter info page here


Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009
Providence Native Vivian Moreno featured in United Way of America Video
Providence, RI  VIVIAN MORENO of Providence has been chosen by the UNITED WAY OF AMERICA to be featured in a 30 promotional video. MORENO, who runs a volunteer tax-preparation site for the Internal Revenue Service is known locally for expertise in helping poor people qualify for the earned-income credit, an income tax break intended for the working poor.

Moreno is CEO of THE INTERPRETERS NETWORK INC, a firm that provides interpreting and translation services. The video is now available at WWW.WALE990.com.

Posted Friday, March 13, 2009
Artist Christina Bolinger works to Encore at NYC Exhibit
Moosup, CT, & New York, NY) The works of Connecticut Artist and Moosup native
Christina Bollinger will encore at the National Art Club in New York City.  The exhibit
will open with an open reception on April 6th from 6-8pm.  News Reporter info page here. Eng

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