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SIGN UP: Get Nesi's Notes by Email Happy Saturday! Here's another edition of my weekend column for WPRI.com - as always, send your takes, tips and trial balloons to [email protected] and follow @tednesi on Twitter.1. Only one of Rhode Island's statewide elected leaders is leaving office at the close of this year: Attorney General Peter Kilmartin, the Pawtucket Democrat and former rep who has now served two terms as the state's top prosecutor. Kilmartin's final month kicked off with a media storm after the Projo's Katie Mulvaney reported about 1,300 felony cases were not prosecuted by the AG's office between 2009 and 2015. During Friday's taping of Newsmakers, Kilmartin said many of those were not prosecuted for reasons such as a lack of evidence, not due to an oversight, and his office is now reviewing them all. "I want to get this done before I leave, because I don't want that hanging out there that there was something done that was done wrong or improperly," he said. "I want to get a … [Read more...] about Nesi’s Notes: Dec. 8

Rhode Island has been making things ever since Europeans arrived on the shores of Narragansett Bay. First it was boats, then textiles and finally jewelry. But how the Ocean State has been making those things has changed dramatically through the centuries. Today the state is straddling its past and its present. So yes, those products that once defined Rhode Island are still being made here. But not nearly as many are being made, all while the path to becoming someone who makes them continues to evolve. Rich in history Pawtucket’s Slater Mill, established in the late 1700s, was the first U.S. factory to make cotton yarn using machines powered by water. Host to the America’s Cup in Newport, Rhode Island is also a state known for its longtime legacy of boat building. Aviation designer Igor Sikorsky, credited with designing the first helicopter in the late 1930s, first worked on a prototype at Goodwin-Bradley Co. in Providence. Henry Ford also was there as part of his work when … [Read more...] about Rhode Island restarts a manufacturing legacy

FREEPORT — He’d heard his mother crying behind the closed bedroom door one too many times. She had had a child out of wedlock 18 years earlier. The church had excommunicated her. He was the child. BIOGRAPHY: ALAN CARON Age: Turns 67 on TuesdayResidence: FreeportFamily: married, one son; two adult children from first marriageParty affiliation: independent; previously a DemocratOccupation: communications and economic development consultantPreviously: campaign consultant; political activistPolicy stances: expand Medicaid, broadband, renewable energy usage; support entrepreneurs; improve efficiency of government; two years of no-cost higher education to students who stay in MaineLittle-known fact: Testifying at a 1976 trial of others, he was questioned by U.S. Attorney S. Peter Mills, father of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Janet Mills. THIS MONTH'S SERIES This is the second of four profiles of the candidates for governor. Sept. 9: Shawn Moody, Republican Sept. 16: Janet … [Read more...] about Alan Caron: Longtime builder of coalitions first had to rebuild himself