Justin Katz
My response to Richard Joslin made it into this week’s print edition of the Sakonnet Times (as did TCC President David Nelson’s), and I’m sure it’ll spark an angry response or two from unionists. Who knows but that ringleader Crowley will pen a guest letter from across the state. Given the extent of his so-called…
The tentative deal between Southern Union and residents of Tiverton concerning contaminated soil has fallen through. It’s a travesty that those who live in the Bay Street area should spend so long in limbo, as the article puts it, but this is particularly disconcerting: In the end, Southern Union could not strike a deal with…
Yeah, I’m aware that a politically noisy segment of our society views immigration more as a social work process than a set of policies intended for the benefit of the country, but Dori Segal and Brian Lee Crowley have a worthy (if politically infeasible) idea: … America should immediately offer fast-track immigration to foreigners willing…
It must be their training that leads business advocates and practitioners to declare that Rhode Island requires a targeted business plan. A state is not a business; it’s a location. Government leaders are not CEOs and corporate board members; they’re politicians. We shouldn’t rely upon them to innovate and develop visions for business in the…
Andrew Redleaf and Richard Vigilante’s argument for letting the automakers (and the union that feeds off them) face bankruptcy should definitely be on your reading list for today: Over the past couple of decades, the suppliers – actually systems makers – have taken over most manufacturing of American cars. The “hollowed out” Big Three now…
We should all hope that Capitol Records fails in its efforts to claim a Providence family’s computer for inspection, but as the breadth of activities occurring on computers expands, the likelihood goes up that they will become subject to confiscation for one reason or another. In that light, even just the circumstances of the threat…
If, like me, your prospects of facing unemployment in the near future are all too real, this news is unsettling, no matter the assurances that the “move would have no impact on beneficiaries”: Rising unemployment in Rhode Island is draining the fund that the state maintains to pay unemployment benefits. … Such a move would…
Perhaps our system of government requires too much depth of thought and strategy. Defending the straight-party voting option, John Callaci of Cranston writes: I suggest that splitting the ticket is often irrational. For example, one can easily understand someone voting for Sen. Jack Reed or Governor Carcieri but not both, as many Rhode Islanders have…
So, over about seven years, Robert Felner, a director of an independent center at the University of Rhode Island, was apparently able to siphon $1.7 million in funding away from its intended purpose: Two months after a former administrator at the University of Rhode Island was indicted on 10 federal fraud charges, URI officials say…
No doubt, we’re in for a string of news stories describing the essential work that this group or that group does with government dollars. Today’s, dealing with the Office of the Public Defender, includes a statement that oughtn’t be allowed to remain standing in any instance: “I just don’t see how we can cut budgets…
