Carroll Andrew Morse
Local Impact: Central Falls 9. H5047: “Six hours of over-the-road driver’s training from a licensed driver’s training school” required for a first-time driver to obtain a license. (H Corporations; Tue, Feb 12) 8. Bud. Arts. 3 and 4: Changes to state employee benefits involving removal of divorced spouses from family health plans and establishment of…
Local Impact: East Providence, Foster, Johnston, Middletown 2 Inobvious Priorities: H5162 adds “city and/or town owned manhole covers and bridge placards” to a list of items that precious metals dealers are required to hold for fourteen days before doing whatever they’re planning to do with them next. (H Judiciary; Tue, Feb 5) 14. H5165: Allows…
Walter Russell Mead, on the relationship between American politics and American society…Does the American middle class (and by extension, the middle class in other advanced democracies) have a future in a post-blue world? That is the basic question at the heart of American politics;. As I’ve noted, 4.0 liberals think that it doesn’t, and think…
6. H5114: A preliminary sign that the Rhode Island General Assembly may once again be taking a keen and perhaps unusual amount of interest in the rental of motor vehicles; this bill would require anyone “who rents or leases more than five motor vehicles in any one year” in the state of Rhode Island to…
Let’s really make the new Rhode Island General Assembly session official; the list below is based on the Rhode Island General Assembly website as of 11:00 am today… 3. On Tue, Jan 22, the Senate Rules Committee will discuss the Senate rules for 2013-2014. 2. H5086: Allows “developmental disability agencies” to operate their own “self-insurance”…
At his blog on the American Interest website, Walter Russell Mead describes a “New England” social tradition…The New England tradition, rooted in Puritan experience and theology, wants a strong state run by the great and the good to serve as the moral agent of the conscience of the community. It is the duty of the…
The modern philosophic since the revival of classicism in the Renaissance fall into the same ancient errors. They are either idealistic or naturalistic. If the former, they tend to lose a sense of the finiteness of human nature, conceiving the self as identical with reason. If the latter, modern man seeks to interpret himself wholly…
Rhode Islanders United For Marriage, a same-sex marriage advocacy coalition, issued a press release yesterday which included a fact-check style response to a paid advertisement run in the Warwick Beacon by the National Organization for Marriage, a same-sex marriage opposition group. The press release claimed that the NOM ad contained “falsehoods and misleading statements”. The…
Here is the recent history of Rhode Island state government expenditures updated to reflect the Governor’s proposed budget for 2014, made possible in part by the fast work done by the State of Rhode Island Budget Office to make the complete budget available on the ri.gov website. As always, actual dollar amounts spent (or, in…
Ken Block’s Eliminate the Master Lever in Rhode Island! website is now reporting that a majority of the members of the Rhode Island House of Representatives say they support the elimination of the straight party option (a.k.a. the “master lever”) from Rhode Island general election ballots. The RI Senate tally still shows 10 votes in…
