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Here’s the seemingly semantic point about deregulation and electricity prices: how is a system where the lowest cost producer is forced by law to set prices at the level of the high cost producer considered “deregulated”. This is more than semantics. Because the current system is considered “deregulated”, a key Rhode Island official is arguing…
If the choice had been his alone, Benjamin Franklin would have selected the turkey to be the symbol of the United States of America…For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country�For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal…
Tireless Providence Republican Party Chairman Dave Talan passes along an announcement of what promises to be interesting panel discussion & straw poll he’s put together for Tuesday evening… PROVIDENCE REPUBLICAN PARTY GENERAL MEETING TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22 @ 7:00 P.M. THE COLUMBUS THEATRE (270 Broadway – In Federal Hill) Featuring a special panel on “How The…
In today’s Projo, Scott Mayerowitz reports on Rhode Island’s projected $60,000,000 budget shortfall. The leadership of the legislature is ducking for cover when the subject of closing the budget gap comes up…Both [State Senator Steven] Alves and [State Representative Stephen] Costantino said it was up to [Governor Donald] Carcieri to propose cuts first. The governor…
An editorial in Saturday’s Projo compared the poor performance of Rhode Island’s public schools to the better performance of those in neighboring Massachusetts, then listed a number of reform proposals for closing the gap…Impose high-stakes testing. Create performance incentives for teachers, through pay — rewarding those who do a great job, and especially those who…
Which member of the state Board of Elections made this statement about the BOE case concerning Republican advertisements during the 2002 election…“I made the decision summarily on my own that, no, the proposed settlement terms that the governor and the Republican Party were suggesting were entirely inappropriate and unacceptable to me as the complainant and…
What do they mean, exactly, when they say the United Nations is trying to take over the internet? Bascially, they mean that at the next meeting of the WSIS, the WGIG may recommend replacing ICANN with a more direct authority over the 13 root name servers. I explain in a bit more detail in my…
The Board of Elections investigation into the funding of Donald Carcieri’s 2002 gubernatorial campaign advertising continues. According to the subhead of Scott Mayerowitz’s story in today’s Projo, Elections Board Chairman Roger N. Begin says special prosecutor H. Reed Witherby will have the power to subpoena records and to compel testimony.The news, of course, is that…
From Tuesday’s Pawtucket Times…The tentative contract agreement, reached in private talks conducted well below the public radar, besides the 3 percent pay increase would change no other contract language, including the current lack of a health coverage co-pay. School Committee Chairman Alan Tenreiro confirmed those details Monday night. Addressing the lack of a co-pay provision,…
I just came from Scott Avedisian’s very well-attended big announcement. Citing his record of building up budget surpluses, helping to stimulate $400M in private development, helping to make Warwick the 20th safest city in the nation, and working with non-profits on health care and human services issues, and saying that the Mayor’s office is the…
