Justin Katz
A quick online search didn’t lead to the actual documents, but based on the Providence Journal story about the various legal briefs filed in the case of Rhode Island’s granting a same-sex divorce, it appears that just about everybody argued predictably, mainly based on broader perspectives than the narrow question facing the court. The one…
These two items aren’t directly related, but reading them in close proximity to each other, I discerned some dots that could be connected. First is RI Senate Majority Leader Teresa Paiva Weed’s defense of the General Assembly’s failure to reform our state’s fire code: Following enactment of the new code in 2003, the Senate has…
Tom Shevlin sees Big Brother in the arrival of E-Z Pass: … a recent ABC survey found that almost three-quarters of Americans support expanding our surveillance apparatus including eighty six percent of Republicans who support Rudy Giuliani and over seventy percent of registered Democrats. So what’s the big deal? Why care? Because America was founded…
I’ve always thought it too obvious to be a blindspot that opponents of abstinence education behave as if a quick course or two ought to do the trick if such an approach were going to work at all. As I’ve said before, the cultural movement of which such people are a part does not really…
House/building painting isn’t a very difficult job. I don’t say this disparagingly; working in construction, I’m certainly aware of aspects of the professional painter’s job that require skill and patience that I myself often lack (or have little interest in developing). That painting tasks exist for which one is well advised to hire an experienced…
It’s amazing enough that Cranston firefighters can retire after twenty years at any age, but this is stunning: Once retired, retirees continue to receive extra pay each year for longevity bonuses and extra pay for 15 holidays! So, they get longevity bonuses for a job that they no longer do, as well as holiday pay…
Suppose you had a variety of tasks, none of them highly specialized, for which you wished to hire workers. Of the several people whom you interview, one declares that he can do everything himself, provided you sign a contract to that effect. Now, do you expect him to offer an hourly rate that is: Substantially…
Andrew suggested to Jim Hummel, on this morning’s On the Record, that the Democrats in the General Assembly are, in some sense, biding their time until they manage to place another Democrat in the Governor’s chair. I’m not so sure the Democrats are (or should be) desirous of such a visible monopoly on Rhode Island…
I don’t often link to videogames around here, although they’re in plentiful supply on the Internet, but I’ve come across one that might be worth some of your idle time (assuming you have some): DayMare Town. It’s a puzzle, in essence, and the atmosphere is of a hand-drawn Poe sketch (perhaps best experienced at night).…
