Justin Katz
It may be that my estimate of the midyear budget review yielding a $150 million deficit was too optimistic. We’re apparently starting with a baseline gap that’s already one-fifth of that: The state ended its last budget year awash in red ink, according to a newly-released Aug. 29 report by state Controller Marc A. Leonetti.…
We’ve been having this conversation hereabouts, and Jonathan Zimmerman puts it well: Beneath all of this talk, of course, lies the fallacy of race itself. Although America is a richly diverse place, we’re told, people in any given race are the same — or should be. That’s why you still hear whispers in the African-American…
Put aside, for a moment, the very interesting fact that the article is one of an increasing number that place Obama in parallel with Palin and compare and contrast the pair’s responses to the question of government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Obama: “These entities are so big and they are so tied…
Tom Sgouros’s message must be mellifluous to public-sector ears. Everything’s cause and effect (no poor decisions on officials’ part), and vaguely unseemly of the citizens who initiated the latter. The story, in summary, is that all was demographically golden in the world back in the ’50s, until people started moving from Rhode Island’s cities to…
Just a pause to affirm that one doesn’t have to push the boundaries of ethics to extend the boundaries of medical science: The cell identity switch turned ordinary pancreas cells into the rarer type that churns out insulin, essential for preventing diabetes. But its implications go beyond diabetes to a host of possibilities, scientists said.…
Oh to have the financial liberty that David Segal makes evident through his priorities (emphasis added): I can think of nothing that would attract young people to Rhode Island, and keep them around, at a higher rate than expanded transit, and expanded health care — two services that have suffered the most, under the austerity…
Edward Mazze errs by inadvertently opening the door for the insidious consequence of socialist drift, Anthony DiBella takes his latest Business section “commentary” to the threshold of the socialist view of humanity. The humble Mr. DiBella volunteers for the task of bringing sun-shiny days to the lives of Rhode Islanders: The governor’s idea to assemble…
Sometimes the wisdom of allowing the Providence Journal Business section to indulge in “commentary” isn’t at all apparent. Edward Mazze, for example, did just fine, yesterday, until he transitioned from business and economic statistics to education with the following paragraph: Based on the number of elementary and secondary schools in a state with a little…
In case you missed it, Don talked Palin with Matt Allen on 630AM/99.7FM WPRO last night. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
