Block announces candidacy for Rhode Island governor
PROVIDENCE — In a press release issued Tuesday morning, May 21, East Bay resident and entrepreneur Ken Block, who founded the Moderate Party of Rhode Island and ran as its candidate for Governor in 2010, announced he is running for Governor and forming a finance committee. Mr. Block, of Barrington and who has spent the [...]
Read More →Legislative grant program must go
To the editor: In the last month, East Providence legislators including Representative Joy Hearn have showered $13,000 in legislative grants on the city of East Providence to help renovate a softball field. Legislative grants come from a state taxpayer-funded slush fund that is appropriated by the Rhode Island General Assembly and disbursed to deserving local [...]
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