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WPRI’s Ted Nesi speaks with Urbanophile’s Aaron Renn about the Providence metro area and economy on this week’s Executive Suite.
Ted Nesi, who writes the Nesi’s Notes blog over on WPRI.com, is out of town this week. So, he asked some people to write guests posts to fill in while he was gone. Among those guest posters is yours truly and my post appears this morning.
My post is about streetcars, of course.*
*It is a little too late in the season for it to be about shoveling snow off sidewalks.
Video from WPRI.com.
N. Main hit-and-run victim remembered: wpri.com
According to WPRI.com, 23-year-old George Adams, IV was killed last Thursday when he was struck by a car while walking with a friend on North Main Street near Benefit Street. The WPRI report does not say whether sidewalk conditions forced the victim and his friend to walk in the road or not.
“It was like they were walking and talking, holding hands,” said George’s father, George Adams III, on Monday. Mounds of unshoveled ice had forced them off the sidewalk. “And all of a sudden, he got ripped from her hand. He was gone that fast.” He later died at the hospital.
An eyewitness who saw the car drive away ended up chasing after the car. The driver never hit her brakes, the eyewitness said — and later tried to ditch the vehicle and take off on foot.
Police eventually tracked down the woman they believe was the driver, Haley Mckee, 31, in Lincoln. Her charges include leaving the scene of an accident-death resulting, reckless driving — and driving with a suspended license.
Channel 12 Newsmakers talks with the executive director of the Rhode Resource Recovery Corporation about the recently released audit of the Central Landfill…
ugh.
