Community Crier
We know as well as anybody that times continue to be difficult — financially harrowing, even — and we’re not going to make a daily habit of begging for your limited resources. But please do consider helping us keep up the fight. A great deal of work goes into Anchor Rising each day, and the…
This year, Operation Clean Government’s will host its 5th-biannual Candidate School session. The Candidate School was originated in 2002 by Bruce Lange, founding chairman of Operation Clean Government, and has been conducted in every election year since. Governor Donald Carcieri and former Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey attended the inaugural session. Providence Mayor David Cicilline is…
The Portsmouth Institute, at the Portsmouth Abbey School, has unveiled the topic and initial itinerary for the follow-up conference to its very successful event exploring “the Catholic William F. Buckley”: This year’s Portsmouth Institute conference will be held June 10-13, on Newman and the Intellectual Tradition. The conference will be held just months prior to…
The holiday season is a great time to reflect on changes we would like to see in the next session of Congress – and resolve to work in the coming year to make those changes a reality. In keeping with that spirit, here are a few items on my Christmas list and, I hope, on…
With Thursday comes an irresistible urge toward honesty: None of our previous “blegathons” asking for donations have broken the bounds of “meager,” and this week would probably best be described as “pitiful” (which, the conservative optimist must admit, is better than “utter failure” and “death.”) And yet our readership continues to expand. The economy surely…
It’s been encouraging to watch, over the past month, our visitor statistics recover from the typical summer doldrums, which this year followed upon some post-election exhaustion. (Although astonishing government activity served to mitigate that dip.) Thus has it been every year and every election cycle: ups and downs, but a continuously upward trend line. Many…
We’re on all the mailing lists, of course, so we’re aware of the dozen or so groups in Rhode Island with similar objectives and related activities to ours, and we support them all. That said, we’re all looking for big donors, small donors, grants, advertisements, subscribers, and members, and it’s a relatively small field that…
Times are tough, and in Rhode Island, they’re going to get tougher. Everybody is fully justified in keeping their wallets closely held, no matter how much politicians and media types strain to cast it as a sort of civic duty to make sure consumer spending (and debt) doesn’t drag government redistributors and wealthy investors down.…
This is a reminder that the RHODE ISLAND REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY PAC will be hosting a big “Victory Over Statism” Day barbecue event outdoors at the Buttonwoods — Masonic Shriners’ Family Center, located at 116 Long Street in Warwick, on SATURDAY, August 15th, from 1:00 P.M. until at least 4:00 P.M. Like many of you, we…
From Justin: Back when I was a catechumen in the process of joining the Roman Catholic Church, a priest giving a Holy Week lecture in Fall River spoke of the need to step outside of life periodically in one’s search for a closer relationship with God. The lesson applies beyond we who are explicitly religious:…