A quick Google search for the 6-10 connector and "geiger" / "radioactive" yielded no results.

I think the NSA scrubbed the Internet of any reference to radioactive waste in the soil that was dumped in Olneyville, which was nasty enough without any geiger-triggering material ...

I'll look and see if I can find the post you're referring to. Let me know if you come across it in the meantime. Thanks!

Not sure — where was that posted?

This was about contaminated dirt from elsewhere being secretly dumped on the site of the 6-10 conector project in Olneyville …

Since some clown(s) will inevitably respond to this post by deliberately ignoring the substance of the article and just slagging off GoLocalProv in general — as if doing so were more important than the facts of the case itself — I will pre-empt the time-honored RI tradition of “killing the messenger” by noting that it was a federal investigation; GLP is just reporting on it. They are not the source of the story, the U.S. Attorney for RI is. You may not like GLP, but that doesn’t invalidate the story itself.

[EDIT — And we have a winner: https://www.reddit.com/r/RhodeIsland/comments/ycocod/610_contamination_barletta_to_pay_15_million_in/itpnr4d/]

>”But it's not here yet, so I have to decide whether I'd like to use my vote as a protest, or to try and elect the lesser of the evils being presented.”

Translation: “I’ll perpetuate a system that I know doesn’t work because its replacement hasn’t arrived yet — precisely because people like me keep perpetuating the existing system and preventing its replacement from arriving.”

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

> I was born and raised there

Central Valley? OC? San Diego?

>cost of living was too high and quality of life was too low.

Housing speculation in a lot of places in the U.S. has made a basic human necessity unaffordable for most people — we need to de-commodify it …

>They do have a booming economy but with the over regulation it's hard to survive.

Oxymoron? If it’s booming, how is it being over-regulated? And if those ‘oppressive’ regulations were removed, wouldn’t it “boom” even more and get even more expensive …?

>It also sucks to make a honest living to and ravaged by criminals whom get a slap on the wrist.

What kind of honest work did you do there, and what crimes were you “ravaged” by?

>I see that my opinion is unpopular however no one has any sort of rebuttal.

Not sure about that second part, but it’s hard to rebut generalities — hence my questions.

>I am not attacking any side

Didn’t you say the (Democrat-controlled) state government had driven California into the ground? They’re a side …

>I just don't get it is all

Fair point

>I hope you get the point

“Keep voting for failed politicians because they know all about local foods” …?

>John Anderson taught me (and I wish he'd taught Ralph Nader) that all a 3rd party candidate does in the current system is spoil the race.

You’re way too old to still think a two-party system is actually functional …

The California state government “drove it into the ground”? RI residents would kill for just a fraction of California’s economy. Why did you move there in the first place, and why did you leave?

With sea-level rise, it will be …

Name names …

> any not-for-profit housing costs upwards of two or three times what it costs to build for-profit housing.

Source …?

So what’s stopping them …?

>”There is a big difference between the court making a controversial decision from time to time, and what is actually going on. The problem is how the justices got selected, how they got stuffed onto the court by (Senate Minority Leader) Mitch McConnell, and how the pattern of their decision shows fealty to big Republican donor interests on a distressingly predictable basis.” > >… > >”If Exxon Mobil or Marathon Petroleum want to spend $10 million against me in an election, and their dirty ads say they’re brought to you by Exxon Mobil and Marathon Petroleum, I might [actually] gain votes, because Rhode Islanders would get the joke — they’d see what’s going on. But if they spend money through a group called ‘Rhode Islanders for Peace, Puppies and Prosperity,’ you end up with the ability to have your message separated from your motive.”

And that genius learned to spell too …

Ten Forward …

>I have a severe nut allergy

Avoid Rhode Island — it’s full of nuts …

>Maybe it’s got to do with the population density - it’s the only statistic where we especially stand out.

… and gets used as the reflex answer to every comment — does no one do any independent thinking here?

“Blue state” my ass …