JANUARY 23, 2004:
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Focus Rhode Island airs on WRNI 3-4p.m. every Friday, Saturday 6-7 p.m., and Sunday 8 - 9 p.m. Audio of the entire show is archived on the web two hours after the end of Friday's broadcast. The archived programs are streamed in the Real Audio Format.
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Police Exam Scandal
The City of Providence is taking action to address a scandal in the police department that dates back nearly a decade. WRNI's Mark Degon reports on the internal police investigation that has confirmed cheating on promotional exams.

RI Ethics - Past and Present
A conversation about Rhode Island's efforts to improve the ethical conduct of state lawmakers with Brown University political science and public policy professor Ross Cheit. Cheit was a member of the Rhode Island Supreme Court's Ethics Commission that examined the credit union crisis in 1991.

Homeless Shelters
For the growing population in Rhode Island's homeless shelters, the critical question is how to get out and into homes of their own. People have to cope with both their personal circumstances and with the short supply of affordable housing. WRNI's Brian Jones visits shelters in the Newport Area to hear residents tell their stories.

Political Roundtable
Scott MacKay, political writer for the Providence Journal
Maureen Moakley, chairperson of the political science department at the University of Rhode Island.

Globalheart Project
The Globalheart Project is an installation that combines sculpture, dance and music with the hope of promoting peace and healing. We talk with sculptor Christian Corbat, composer Elaine Bearer and choreographer Colleen Cavanaugh.

Newport Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary Tour
A group of Jazz all stars are touring to commenmorate the history of the Newport Jazz Festival. The tour will be at Rhode Island College next week.

The Jazz Age in Newport
Historians in Rhode Island's city-by-the-sea are
celebrating the period known as the jazz age The Preservation Society of Newport County is hosting a series of concerts, films, talks, and tours this winter, to highlight the post WWI era in Newport's history. We talk with the Preservation Society's architectural
historian John Church.

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