Justin Katz
If I had the authority — as an audience member — I’d move to end executive sessions at these town council meetings. The council is running through a list of appointments and pretty much rubber stamping applicants (who are far outnumbered by openings, it seems), and the discussion over a town planning–related position became somewhat…
It’s so much easier to be active in the summer. How am I supposed to keep up with Prison Break and Heroes if I intend to attend Tiverton Town Council meetings? Maybe it would be different if I could afford a TiVo machine, but such tools are out of my range of affordability. But there’s…
A July 30th L.A. Times piece that held the dominant spot in this Sunday’s Providence Journal Lifebeat section is a fine specimen of science’s reductive power in the hand of a secularist: The forces of attraction are in many ways mysterious, but scientists know certain things. Studies have shown that women prefer men with symmetrical…
In a comment to the previous post, WillP asks why we haven’t mentioned this: Tiverton police officers are looking forward to their paychecks that will contain 14 months of retroactive salary increases. Fourteen months’ worth of retroactive health-care co-share increases, however, will reduce that amount. The 26 members of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers,…
WillP left a curious comment to my “Just a Quick Shake of the Head” post: On what basis do you assume that this is an “unaffordable contract?” Do you have access to details of the current contract negotiations or budget data that the rest of us residents and parents don’t have? Again, you are assuming…
Reading Pat Crowley’s reaction in the comments section of my previous post, I find myself shaking my head at the inability of a certain type to comprehend that some people take an honest interest in the world around them and pursue and present knowledge with the intention of finding the truth. I meant it when…
Hot on the heels of the Tiverton teachers’ union’s unanimous vote to follow a moderated work-to-rule practice as a negotiating tactic, Schools Superintendent William Rearick has done the minimum that most bosses would do were employees to openly skip work for an expressly inappropriate reason: The teachers’ union is balking at Schools Supt. William J.…