Justin Katz
Not a group to let some rain disrupt their protest, the teachers stood at their seats in the auditorium before tonight’s Tiverton School Committee meeting: My habitual area for sitting is occupied, so I thought it best to hide in back. (That, and I’m afraid that Pat Crowley might be in the audience and offend…
Lee Drutman’s musing against the scourge of lobbyists is telling in the solution that he fails to consider: The challenge then is two-fold. One is to figure out ways to make public service more of a career in itself and less of the stepping-stone it is increasingly becoming. This may mean such things as better…
My observation of Tiverton government began too recently — and I’m insufficiently inside — to really get the significance of the move, but Town Administrator Glenn Steckman offered, and the town council accepted, his resignation tonight. Apparently the “arising rift” in town government noted in recent Providence Journal coverage was more of an arisen rift.…
One hesitates to take Pat “The Finger” Crowley’s comments on taxation too seriously. His branch of mathematics, after all, takes progressivism to be a fundamental principle and unionism to be the standard of comparison. That said, anybody who finds merit in his question marks should consider, first, that he highlights two components of taxation, with…
Our referral logs led me back to the following comment to a Kmareka post: The fact of private schools is that parents can reign in or nullify the academic freedoms that make public and tenured institutions great opportunities to open young minds. I couldn’t have put it better, myself. Even the incorrect usage of “reign”…
Will Ricci makes an interesting comment to my post on Mr. Crowley’s self expression: … I think it’s a golden opportunity for those of us who are actually concerned about our state’s below average educational quality to show what the other side (those who don’t care if kids fail, as long as their check clears)…
On Dan Yorke a few minutes ago, Trisha Smith — the controversial owner of the Post & Naughty store in Portsmouth, whose landlord is threatening to cancel her lease if she doesn’t stop courting customers outside her store, as it were — mentioned that she has lost her day job. (The company owner, as it…
Not one to shoot ducks in a barrel, I’ve resisted the urge to post this photo, but NEA-Tiverton President Amy Mullen’s reaction in the Sakonnet Times suggests that more should be made of it: Amy Mullen, a special education resource teacher at Pocasset Elementary School, treasurer of the National Education Association Rhode Island and president…
Yesterday, Dan Yorke played a clip of Bishop Thomas Tobin on one of the Sunday news shows (which does not appear to be online, yet) discussing immigration. I certainly wouldn’t claim to be more Catholic than the bishop, to modify a phrase, let alone the College of Bishops, but it seems to me that his…
The campaign of Hillary Clinton — herself a College Republican — is coming to town today, and the College Republican Federation of Rhode Island will be at the corner of Post Rd. and Airport Rd. in Warwick at 3:30 to express their gratitude for her vote for the war in 2002 and “for pledging to…