Travis, Council Have Immunity in Cote Free Speech Suit
By: Rob Borkowski on July 25, 2025 in News to You
WARWICK, RI — Former City Council member Donna Travis and other individual members are shielded from Rob Cote’s free speech suit seeking nominal damages from the body and punitive damages […]
RI ACLU, Cote, Expand Cote Free Speech Suit to City
By: Rob Borkowski on May 11, 2024 in News to You, Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
WARWICK, RI — The ACLU of Rhode Island and frequent city critic Rob Cote have expanded the Cote free speech suit protesting Cote’s ouster from a July 17 2023 City […]
Council Takes Undisclosed Vote on Cote Free Speech Suit
By: Rob Borkowski on September 8, 2023 in News to You
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council began its full meeting Wednesday with an immediate vote to enter executive session to discuss Rob Cote’s free speech suit against the body, […]
ACLU Files Warwick City Council Free Speech Suit
By: Rob Borkowski on August 28, 2023 in News to You, Police News & Fire News in RI
WARWICK, RI — The ACLU of Rhode Island has filed a Warwick City Council free speech suit against the body in federal court for stifling the free speech rights of […]
Committee Supports Extending New High Schools Project Window
By: Joe Siegel on April 26, 2023 in News to You, Schools
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported the matter voted on Tuesday night. The vote concerned support for extending the start and end deadlines on for work on […]
Council Asks Assembly to Send $350M High Schools Bond to Voters
By: Rob Borkowski on June 8, 2022 in News to You
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council approved asking voters to OK a $350 million plan for two new high schools Monday night, after City Councilman Timothy Howe’s dogged interruption […]
Council OKs 2907 Post Road Zone Change for Multi-Family Units
By: Rob Borkowski on September 23, 2021 in News to You
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council held a public hearing Monday night on the Law Office of Joe Shekarchi’s request for a zoning change at 2907 Post Road allowing […]
Warwick Budget Hearing Questions Unanswered
By: Rob Borkowski on May 27, 2020 in News to You
WARWICK, RI — Citizens expressed frustration with Mayor Joseph J. Solomon’s failure to answer questions about his $323,508,909 budget Wednesday night, as Council members saw their own queries cloaked in […]
Cote: DPW Compensation Recorded Improperly in Budget
By: Rob Borkowski on May 29, 2019 in News to You
WARWICK, R.I. — Budget watchdog Rob Cote pointed out the DPW is violating City ordinance by failing to break out its salary, overtime, vacation pay and holiday pay into […]
Cote: Corrente Political Signs Illegally Posted to City Traffic Control Boxes
By: Rob Borkowski on February 20, 2018 in Election 2018, News to You
Rob Cote, a regular critic of city finances, the Warwick Fire Department and Mayor Scott Avedisian’s administration, has turned his critical eye on self-styled 2018 Mayoral candidate Richard Corrente’s campaign signs, many of them posted on traffic control boxes in the city.
Cote Files Complaint on Harassing Political Letters With WPD
By: Rob Borkowski on September 28, 2016 in Election 2016, News to You
Rob Cote, a regular critic of Mayor Scott Avedisian’s administration, city finances and the Warwick Fire Department, has alerted Warwick Police to the latest in a series of harassing letters he claims come from a city staffer, a charge the Mayor says he’s made difficult to verify by failing to provide detectives with access to the envelopes.