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Reps. Karen MacBeth (L) and Charlene Lima offer testimony on limiting and/or eliminating payment to 38 Studios bondholders.

Lima, MacBeth Suggest Not Paying 38 Studios Bonds

By Dave Fisher on April 10, 2013

The House Finance Committee heard several bills yesterday concerning the operation of the RI Economic Development Corporation (EDC) in the wake of last years 38 Studios fiasco, including two bills  that would prohibit the state or the EDC  from making payments to the bondholders of the failed video game company. The bills, H5639 and H5888, [...]

Posted in Featured, State House | Tagged 38 Studios, bond, lima, macbeth, state house | 3 Responses

Rep. Lima Defends Her Religion Over Equal Rights

Rep. Lima Defends Her Religion Over Equal Rights

By Steve Ahlquist on January 22, 2013

Today’s ProJo ran a piece on the expected passage, later today, of H5015, the Marriage Equality bill. The piece ran some quotes from Representative Charlene Lima that surprised me. “We were sensitive to an atheist in Cranston to take down a prayer banner” she said, referring to a legal challenge that led to the removal [...]

Posted in Civil Rights / Liberties, Featured, LGBT | Tagged Cranston, lgbtq, lima, Marriage Equality, state house | 4 Responses

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