Justin Katz
I’ve been delayed in posting Monique’s appearance on Matt Allen’s show, last week, during which she and Matt discussed the boringness of political conventions, the smackdown of the Cranston School Committee’s Caruolo lawsuit, and the intersection of religion and immigration: Stream by clicking here, or download it. Tune in to Matt Allen on 630AM/99.7FM tonight…
Another day at the office:
So the teachers head back to class today, in Tiverton, and although their contract is still under negotiation, there appears to be some movement. One of the reasons, however, is probably not a positive: … both sides agreed to keep the details of negotiations private, in a departure from the practice of publicly airing differences…
We’ve reached a state of near parody: While Political Scene was trolling the hallway outside Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams’ office, in the Licht Judicial Complex, last week, something sparkly caught our eye. A contractor perched atop elevated scaffolding was installing 23-carat gold leaf on the detailed ceiling trim. The work appeared part…
So a number of folks opined that the list of SAT scores for all fifty states that I posted the other day is meaningless because the states vary with respect to participation rates (PDF). Many states’ students don’t even take the SATs unless they want to go to certain higher-end universities on the East Coast,…
For the curious, I took a few obsessive-compulsive moments last night to compile the public school SAT data for all states. Rhode Island ranks 47th for every test except writing and 47th for total score. It’s interesting to note that states’ public school scores do not appear to correlate with private school scores, inasmuch as…
Well, it may not be at quite the level of signing one’s own death warrant as the Declaration of Independence, but the recent shenanigans of the government of Tiverton have spurred local action in the form of Tiverton Citizens for Change (TCC), a non-partisan political action committee. The town charter amendment that will appear on…
Granted, I don’t have his business experience, but sometimes news reports give the impression that Governor Carcieri doesn’t have a feel for the push-and-shove momentum with which one must grapple when bringing painful, but necessary, change: “We’re going to do our best efforts to negotiate and discuss this in good faith and get a resolution,”…
Karl Stephens, of Barrington, recalls what many seem to have forgotten: In its Aug. 19 editorial about Iraq’s $79 billion budget surplus from oil revenue (“America the sucker”), The Journal fails to mention the most important aspect of that oil-revenue story. Before Operation Iraqi Freedom, oil money was used by Iraq to sponsor terrorism, build…
Whatever the party, I can’t believe that anybody is interested — much less enjoys — these speeches. Everything promised. Posture. Posing. Some standby lines and historical references. Black-and-white arguments and vague solutions. One characteristic that I notice again and again with Barack Obama is his method of adding that flavor of bipartisan “change” to the…