Justin Katz
With the numbers debate becoming increasingly involved, and now that it is clear that we RI bloggers are no longer merely talking among ourselves, I thought to expand my examination of population and wealth trends in Rhode Island. The most straightforward method is to start where I began with my proclamations of middle-to-upper-class flight from…
It’s good to see that the gatekeepers over at RI Future have allowed somebody actually to address the points that I’m making (as opposed to making distinct points and scoffing at whatever it was that some right-winger was saying elsewhere). That somebody turned out to be sometime Anchor Rising commenter Thomas Schmeling, and his argument…
Last year, I referred to legislation to ban surcharges on gift certificates as going “the extra totalitarian mile,” and the intrepid Senator Chris Maselli (D, Johnston) has put on his cross-country jackboots again this year: When Rhode Island enacted legislation a few years ago prohibiting all gift cards and certificates sold in the state from…
This article would have been noteworthy based simply on pure irony: The rush to grow biofuel crops — widely embraced as part of the solution to global warming — is actually increasing greenhouse gas emissions rather than reducing them, according to two studies published Thursday in the journal Science. One analysis found that clearing forests…
Sadly, it seems unlikely that Brown philosophy professor Felicia Nimue Ackerman’s attitude is the majority one on American (at least New England) campuses. Here are four reasons that she didn’t “devote a portion of class time” on a particular week “to teach about climate change”: Reason 1: Climate change is not what students signed up…
I don’t suspect that it will take long for Anchor Rising readers to figure out what group isn’t represented on the following list of folks on House Speaker Bill Murphy’s pension study group: According to the speaker’s office, the panel, when fully assembled, will include: Representatives Nicholas A. Mattiello, D-Cranston; Gregory J. Schadone, D-North Providence;…
Cliff May has a point: This year’s election will be unusually consequential. In 2006, Democrats regained control of both houses of Congress. Democrats also now hold a majority of governors’ mansions and state legislatures. The left long has been regnant on America’s campuses, in the mainstream news media, in the entertainment industry, and in the…
Legislators — even those who are trying to sound conciliatory to RI businesses — are making some scary noises: Stephen D. Alves, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, suggested yesterday that lawmakers may raise business taxes to balance the state budget. The remarks, at the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce’s high-profile legislative luncheon, ran counter…
… do they get tired of their own rhetoric? More importantly, at what point does everybody start to catch on? I’m referring to the comments of Anne Nolan, president of Crossroads Rhode Island, with which Charles Bakst ended his column, yesterday: I said Carcieri is well educated and asked Nolan what she thinks his problem…
I think they’re managing to bring Lost back from the dead. That is all.