Justin Katz
Tonight’s the night that the newly elected school committee takes up the torch, and I heard rumors that it might vote on an arbitrated teacher contract. So far they’ve elected a new chairman, Jan Bergandy and a new vice chairwoman, Sally Black. Having attended these meetings for a year or so, I’ll say that it’s…
This sort of good deed is so important: Christopher and Terri Potts bought a fixer-upper house, pledging to tackle upgrades a little at a time as their toddler son, Jackson, grew up. But the new father never got a chance to finish what he started. In the spring of 2004, less than a year after…
There’s creeping desperation in West Warwick: The Town Council and School Committee agreed to open the lines of communication as part of a settlement of the Caruolo lawsuit the schools filed against the town in April, which seeks a $1.1-million addition to its $49.4-million budget. … … the first step, Thomas said, is addressing the…
Maybe: How is it that the “don’t tase me bro” guy became an Internet star, and it took me a week to come across even a passing reference to a man being grabbed by police and arrested for wearing a McCain-Palin shirt at a post-election Obama rally? There could be more to the story that…
I see the gang over at RI Future is running hard in the post-election season with same-sex marriage advocacy. I suppose that means we can start the clock until the first accusation that the political right is being divisive by not ceding. Believe it or not, what drew me so deeply into this debate seven…
House Finance Committee Chairman Steven Costantino tells Steve Peoples, essentially, “Hey, it ain’t us”: “I’m not sure this is structural,” Costantino said of the deficits. “It’s the economy.” Well, yeah, the economy is partly to blame, but if Rhode Island’s legislature uses that as their annual excuse not to make structural changes, a release of…
Charlie Hall sent over this cartoon: Now, now, Charlie, I know for a fact that our own Andrew Morse was in attendance, as well!
I’m sorry to say that my $150 million guess, back in the late spring, at the November Revenue Estimating Conference’s projected budget shortfall was far short. From the governor’s office: Governor Donald L. Carcieri today issued the following statement regarding the Revenue Estimating Conference’s revised projection of state revenues for the current fiscal year. State…
On some level, this makes sense, and thus far, it’s just an idea, but frankly, it’s unsettling and has the potential to go very, very wrong (emphasis added): After Obama declared victory, his campaign sent a text message announcing that his supporters hadn’t heard the last from the president-elect. Obama conveyed a similar message to…
Here and there across the Internet, one can still find expressions of hope that Obama’s actions, when in office, would be tempered by the economy and the reality of responsibility. Peggy Noonan said, before the election, that Obama would be the dog that caught the car. This morning, even I suggested that he’d be tempered…
