In Depth
This posting continues a periodic series on Rhode Island politics and taxation (I, II, III, IV, V). If you want to read another sordid tale about Rhode Island politics, check out Ed Achorn’s latest editorial in the ProJo. Here are a few excerpts: The people who led the fight against a constitutional convention in Rhode…
This posting continues a periodic series on Rhode Island politics and taxation, building on four previous postings (I, II, III, IV). Governor Carcieri issued his State of the State Address on January 18. The following excerpts from that speech highlight the structural problems we face in this state: A good government lives within its means…
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According to a story in Sunday’s ProJo by Katherine Gregg Out of last year’s political scandals came a law that is shedding new light on the financial ties between some of the state’s part-time, $12,285-a-year lawmakers and major corporate and union players at the State House. In the first batch of filings made last week,…
They may have invested millions in acquisition and sacrificed hundreds of lives, but there’s one thing that the terrorists haven’t counted on: … the latest example of the sea’s, or at least the coast’s, medical potential comes from researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. There, scientists, working under a grant from the Department…
Related to Marc’s posts (here and here) on Peggy Noonan’s reaction to President Bush’s inaugural speech, Patrick Sweeney of Extreme Catholic delves into some of the relevant theological considerations. He also makes this story-behind-the-story suggestion: Perhaps Peggy Noonan thinks she’s in the running for William Safire’s job. This is ankle-biting envy. This is offering a…
This posting continues a periodic series on Rhode Island politics and taxation, building on three previous postings (I, II, III). My town of East Greenwich has an increasingly ugly dispute between School Committee officials and teachers’ union officials. The dispute has been highlighted in local newspaper articles (here, here, here, here, here). Comments by National…
Well, after expending so much time defending the ideals put forth in President Bush’s speech, I find it a bit disheartening, though predictable, to see that some are trying to portray that the Administration may be engaged in damage control. For my part, I don’t think that the President was “shifting” his policy with this…
The temporary part-time job delivering Christmas packages in Tiverton that I took to cross the financial finish line in December greatly helped me to gain a sense of my new hometown. (We bought a house here in July.) The most significant impression that the town makes is the dividing line that runs roughly in the…
