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11/07/2018 - 18:37
Updated 49 weeks ago
Even for spendthrift RIOC, the colossal waste of public money dumped into the "RI Bike Ramp" is spectacular, a boondoggle so extreme it ought to be investigated. Who is this extravagance supposed to benefit?
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11/05/2018 - 17:36
Updated 1 year ago
Even non-citizens and others who've never registered get to vote for some candidates tomorrow. If you live in the Octagon or Coler Hospital, you vote at Color. Otherwise, your polling place is PS/IS 217. Polls open at 6:00 a.m.
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11/04/2018 - 08:32
Updated 1 year ago
It's easy to get frustrated with RIOC's lack of response. Sometimes, they don't answer questions and act like they aren't awake to violations of community values and standards. Sometimes, it's almost like they don't care, but here's an exception of sorts.
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11/02/2018 - 14:52
Updated 1 year ago
Can you help me? Which demonstrates the worst misjudgment, RIOC's stealing my concept or their lame-brained attempt to sales pitch an illusion of meaningful accessibility? There's also the grossly bad grammar to consider...
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10/31/2018 - 16:10
Updated 1 year ago
Newark, New Jersey, faces a contaminated water crisis that's being compared to Flint, Michigan's. But there are troubling Roosevelt Island similarities too.
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10/18/2018 - 09:35
Updated 1 year ago
The Daily's newest installment of Things That Force You To Say, "What?" takes a look at bizarre illiteracy on the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation's website. The public seems to be invited to "Speak Up" at Board Meetings - as long as they don't, you know, speak up.
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10/14/2018 - 09:16
Updated 47 weeks ago
Of course, the first concern of Roosevelt Island parents is their children. Like a halfback facing a string of defensive backs, RIOC threw 'em a head fake. "On July 6, due to citizen concerns raised about water quality in the Island’s drinking fountains, RIOC immediately shut down the water supply systems in all parks and playgrounds and conducted testing from 10 different fountains and one splash park location," they reminded everyone. We did the right thing, was the message. Did they?
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10/10/2018 - 09:13
Updated 1 year ago
Is it possible that RIOC, the State agency that never makes a mistake, has lost the capacity to be embarrassed? That question came to mind after watching RIOC staff frolic as riders exiting the Tram curled away from them and their beloved RI Welcome Sign (or Monument), while live jazz added surreal pleasure to the event.
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10/05/2018 - 19:17
Updated 1 year ago
The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation failed to produce a finished poster, get its own name right, or release a list of events for Saturday's Fall for Arts Festival but was still able to muscle up to promote a Come Welcome the Welcome Sign event to help good buddy Hudson with the crowning piece of its controversial signage project.
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10/01/2018 - 17:01
Updated 1 year ago
Stirred, maybe provoked by the State's painful mishandling of Island affairs, the Common Council of the Roosevelt Island Residents Association kicked up its heels over recent State gaffs and may now be aiming one boot up and forward in the direction of RIOC. The long stall of "go along to get along" may be ending.
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