A Lively Experiment, Week of June 27

NOTE: A LIVELY EXPERIMENT WILL NOT AIR NEXT WEEK 
July 4th and July 6th

Happy Independence Day!

Panel

Dyana Koelsch – moderator
Ian Donnis – Rhode Island Public Radio political reporter
Ed Fitzpatrick – political columnist for The Providence Journal
Jim Baron – State House reporter for Woonsocket Call and Pawtucket Times
Ted Nesi  – political reporter WPRI-TV 12 | wpri.com

Topics

• Buddy Cianci to run for Mayor of Providence 
• The dramatic change in House leadership 
• Passage of “a more business-friendly” state budget
• Other legislation that passed including:
• Expansion of gambling at Newport Grand 
• Suspension of NECAP Tests as graduation requirements
• Moderate gun control
• Minimum wage hike
• Elimination of the master lever 
• Bills that failed including restoring ethics commission oversight over lawmakers
• A look ahead at who’s coming and going in the Assembly 
• Other 2014 election news

A Lively Experiment airs on WSBE Rhode Island PBS (36.1) Fridays at 8:30 p.m., with rebroadcasts on Saturdays at 7 P.M. on WSBE Learn (36.2), and Sundays at noon on WSBE Rhode Island PBS.

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