PROVIDENCE — Ann Marie O'Hagan would have rather been at work. Yet she found herself stuffed onto a wooden bench inside the Capitol Hill Health Center yesterday afternoon surrounded by people she did not know. They were doctors. Businessmen. Lobbyists. And labor union leaders.

RHODE ISLANDERS have a responsibility to recommit themselves to hope for our collective future and to a belief that the American dream can be possible for all in the Ocean State ; to strengthen the social safety net, rebuild the ladder to the middle class, and give every family and every individual the chance to get ahead.

PROVIDENCE - Hundreds of special tax breaks for individuals and corporations are costing Rhode Island "untold billions of dollars," but the state has a handle on the total cost of only about 40 percent of them, a coalition of community groups charged Thursday.

PROVIDENCE — U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and a coalition of community organizations joined together yesterday to criticize President Bush for his “misplaced” war priorities, which they said are financially draining crucial domestic programs.

Ocean State Action used a State House news conference to release a report, prepared by the USAction Education Fund, showing that the war had so far cost U.S. taxpayers $456 billion, and $10 billion more every month.

Leaders in the General Assembly hinted that when next year's state budget comes out tomorrow, it may contain provisions to help shift drug-addicted prison inmates into treatment programs.

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