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Jun 13, 2009 at 12:17 PM EST
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Jun 13, 2009 at 12:17 PM EST
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Mayors from across the country are in Providence discussing approaches to crime, housing and jobs during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors continues its 77th annual meeting Saturday with remarks from the Mexican ambassador to the United States.
Sessions are planned during the day on education and the work force and methods of reintegrating criminals into society.
The agenda has been revised since Providence firefighters decided to picket the meeting over a labor fight with Providence Mayor David Cicilline. Because of the pickets, Obama administration officials, including Vice President Joseph Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., aren't attending.
The meeting ends Monday.
ABC6 Reporter Tom Langford will have an update on today's events and continued picketing on ABC6 News at 6.
Saturday, Jun 13 at 4:36 PM RhodyRed wrote ...
Keep up the good work FireFighters. You'll be standing long after the lying Mayor is voted out of office after they find he lined his friends pockets while wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars going 0-12 in Arbitration plus the $25K for the study he and Farrell have buried. Talk about a cover-up!
23723994 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Saturday, Jun 13 at 4:49 PM mike wrote ...
Union President Paul Doughty and the firefighters should be arrested and charged with extortion and charged with runing a criminal enterprise out of the fire station on the overtime scam that they run.Wake guys you all need to grow-up and be lucky you got a job. We taxpayers should look into bringing a lawsuit against the firefighters for ripping us off for the last 6yrs.
23724457 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Sunday, Jun 14 at 7:42 AM Betsy Dake-Gargantua, Providence wrote ...
Right on target, Mike!! The FF Union leaders should definitely be arrested for the way over-staffed 98 FF crooks who sit around all day and scam the City out of fabricated-ot money!
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