Justin Katz
To be clear, I don’t speak for Tiverton Citizens for Change with what follows (or, really, in any sanctioned sense). However, I do have some insight into the group’s candidate-endorsement process, which may be summarized with two words: fair and open. Every candidate received a questionnaire specific to the position that he or she sought,…
This has to stick in the craw of anybody who’s struggling to make monthly housing payments and considers continued employment to be a month-to-month thing (emphasis added): Carcieri immediately put legislative leaders on notice of the likely need to borrow from the state-run disability-insurance fund earlier in the state’s budget year than anyone could recall.…
I see Bob Whitcomb — editorial page editor of the Providence Journal — has his inaugural blog post up. Projo readers may be find the format to be reminiscent of his Divers Ruminations columns, which is appropriate, because those columns were essentially printed blog posts, as they were.
I’ve got a letter in the current Sakonnet Times looking ahead in the effort to get Tiverton on a better, more sustainable track: In short, if a revolt is to be successful and enduring, it must be considered, and from that necessity derives the difficult, often tedious work that must be done. Razing the town…
On Matt Allen on 630AM/99.7FM WPRO last night, Monique brought up the West Warwick situation and summarized other happenings hereabout. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
I mention this only because I caught it out of the corner of my eye and thought it was striking: On the FoxNews “focus group” of undecided voters who watched the debate together for the network, they were discussing reactions to Governor Palin and whether she’s qualified, and one gentlemen pointed out that she’d been…
Alright, so let’s allow that David Richardson pushed the envelope to an imprudent degree — that it was wrong of him to harass customers to his store for the reason that they were speaking Spanish. Mark my words: Such precedent will expand until it crowds out our freedom: Providence storeowner David C. Richardson has signed…
In search of a Why for my heartbroken disappointment at finding the fifth installment of George R.R. Martin’s excellent Song of Ice and Fire series absent from the bookstore shelves although long expected, I found my way to this post on the author’s blog: Doing Good Is Its Own Reward… … but when you can…
In a comment to my post on Bob Kerr’s column, Aldo writes: Not so fast….. Alves’ Election Appeal Update – Your taxes at work! Quick update on the fiasco in the RI Supreme Court …. All parties involved in Alves’ appeal were supposed to have submitted their briefs / supporting documentation by 4:30 on Friday…