Justin Katz
Anybody who missed last night’s Violent Roundtable on the Matt Allen Show — or who would like to listen to it again — can download it here. I’ll tell you that, from the other side of the microphone, that hour just flies by. By habit, I keep out a notebook during such discussions and jot…
Well, the governor’s tax panel appears to be a bit more in line with the state’s needs than his transportation panel, but we really have to turn this starting point around: Overall, “The goal is to develop . . . alternatives that would be revenue neutral . . . but would present options that would…
So I took a 14% reduction in my hourly pay rate this week. My other option was to quit and look for another job (without the benefit of a few months of unemployment insurance). Desperate times are here. Meanwhile, the Sakonnet Times did run Richard Joslin’s diatribe against the Tiverton taxpayers group with which I’m…
This seems to be a great idea — especially since it appears to be free-market, rather than government, driven — An $80-million project to generate electricity from the methane gases that are given off by Rhode Island’s trash drew support from local and state officials yesterday morning. Executives from a New Jersey company, Ridgewood Renewable…
I may be reading too much into this, but it strikes me as odd that some versions of this AP report of good news in Iraq contain Obama’s name, but none (that I’ve found) contain Bush’s: Attacks fell in November to their lowest monthly level since the Iraq war began in 2003, a top U.S.…
Rev. David Lewis Stokes’s reflections upon the failed exhumation of Cardinal Newman is a rewarding read: What really makes Newman our contemporary was his life-long sense that at the heart of modernity churns a moral vortex that promises to consume us all. Writing in 1875, Newman captured the century and a half to come: “To…
In the midst of a very edifying conversation in the comments section of my “Powers and Victims” post, Tiverton teacher Ed Davis offers the following significant perspective: You’re right, no one is forcing us to work here. Unfortunately, I saw this philosophy take hold in the school system my son attended. Many of the good…
On last night’s Matt Allen show, Monique presented her proposal that the state of Rhode Island deduct the unreasonable excess of Providence’s pension system from its state aid. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
Anthony poses a worthy question in the comments to my post on the RI House Finance Committee’s grilling of state department heads: This is surreal. For years, the General Assembly filled state agencies with a “Family and Friends” plan that rivaled AT&T, raked Carcieri over the coals for wanting to “cut too much” and overrode…
