Marc Comtois
I’ve finally started to watch Ken Burns’ “The War” and just completed the first episode, “A Necessary War.” It’s an interesting social history to be sure and, not surprisingly, inspires comparisons between how war was perceived then and now, especially on the homefront. The centerpiece of the first episode was the battle for Guadalcanal and…
In a press release, Republican State Rep. John Loughlin II touts House Speaker William Murphy’s support for Loughlin’s pension reform plan: State Representative John J. Loughlin II ( R ) Tiverton, Portsmouth, Little Compton today applauded an announcement made Sunday on WJAR’s 10 News Conference that House Speaker William J. Murphy (D) West Warwick supports…
The Anchoress makes a keen observation: Chelsea Clinton works for Avenue Capital and makes an estimated 6 figure salary. Not bad for a woman in her mid-twenties and I certainly don’t begrudge her; Chelsea seems to be a private and perfectly nice person, and if either of my kids could make that kind of sugar…
If there’s a Democrat elected President in 2008, will there be troops in Iraq in 2013? “I think it’s hard to project four years from now,” said Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the opening moments of a campaign debate in the nation’s first primary state. “It is very difficult to know what we’re going…
Last week, the Warwick School Department sent our kids home with an opt-out letter from the city-wide Body Mass Index (BMI) measurement of all students. Of course, the actual “opt-out” portion was only mentioned after a longer legitimization of why the program was being implemented (PDF). The letter included dire warnings of the spread of…
Representative Paul Crowley, D, Newport, has passed away after a battle with cancer. The Governor has ordered that the Rhode Island State flag be flown at half staff. ProJo has more (Matt does, too). : Veteran Newport lawmaker Paul W. Crowley, a champion for schoolchildren and the city where he was raised, died this morning…
The Providence Phoenix’s Ian Donnis previews an interview with Governor Carcieri over at N4N: Carcieri remained characteristically upbeat during a taping this morning of WPRI/WNAC TV’s Newsmakers, but his ability to deliver remains open to question. When I asked why Rhode Island has been relegated to playing defense on the casino issue, the governor answered…
The headline says “Laffey agrees to pay FEC $25,000 fine“, the details indicate something less nefarious than implied: …the FEC, in a Sept. 6 conciliation agreement made public yesterday, said it had “found reason to believe” that Laffey’s Senate campaign committee and his treasurer, Richard J. Sullivan, violated federal campaign law by “failing to identify…
Apparently some of the baloney that blogs put out is good enough for the ProJo to pick up. And unattributed at that. On Saturday, Andrew broke the story that former Senator Chafee had finally left the GOP. So did RI Report’s Tom Shevlin, who has some “original thoughts” on the way it was reported by…
Dale Carpenter writes (h/t): By 4-3, Maryland’s high court today rejected a claim for same-sex marriage under the state constitution. The opinion is more than 100 pages long and is studded with more citations to cases, law reviews and books (including, notably, William Eskridge’s Gaylaw), and sociological and scientific studies, than any case yet on…