Marc Comtois
As Matt Allen tweeted me last week, “Well isn’t this fun.” And yes it was! Thanks to all who voted and especially thanks to the local media who participated in “electronic canvassing” for our scientific bragging-rights Anchor Rising Readers Poll covering the Local RI Media. In addition to bragging rights, every winner can download a…
NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 Thanks to all who have voted so far in the Anchor Rising Readers Poll! There are still a couple days left, so for the sake of convenience I’ve compiled all the questions together in one post. Read on “after the jump” to see the current results and vote in categories…
NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 The fifth and final “question” in our Readers Poll deals with favorite Local Radio News/Info/Advice/Lifestyle type talk shows. As I looked for “candidates”, I discovered that there was such a broad array of shows that I broke them up into a few categories. Here are the groups with choices (listed…
NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 The fourth question in our Readers Poll deals with favorite Local Media Investigative Team. Caveats: 1) had to have statewide coverage; 2) couldn’t be from an overtly partisan outlet or advocacy group (that eliminates us at AR as well as folks like RI Future’s Bob Plain or that guy Justin…
NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 The third question in our Readers Poll deals with favorite Local Electronic Media News Team.* The requirements for being put on this list were: 1) Had to Rhode Island based; 2) Had to provide local news coverage w/actual in-the-field reporters.** 3) Had to be non-partisan (so no RIFuture or Ocean…
Columnist and author Jonah Goldberg was on C-SPANs “Afterwords” recently to discuss his latest book, Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. When asked by Nia-Malika Henderson, National Political Report for the Washington Post, about the clichés in the gay marriage debate, he expounded upon the rhetorical turnabout–imposing social or cultural…
Education Commisioner Deborah Gist is recommending that the state’s first charter school be closed. Gist is recommending that the Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education not renew the charter for the Academy for Career Exploration, formerly Textron/Chamber of Commerce, when its five- year charter expires next year….Gist criticize[d] the school’s performance while noting…
NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 The second question in our Readers Poll deals with favorite Political Roundtable Show* (TV & Radio). The requirements for being put on this list were: 1) Had to be a show based in Rhode Island (so no Boston-based shows); 2) Had to focus primarily on news and political analysis with…
NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 This is the first in a series of polls that I’m putting together this week to find out who our readers turn to for their news and political analysis in the Mainstream Media (that means no bloggers or website-based organizations
The Pew Center on the States is out with an “update” (PDF) on public employee retiree pension and health care benefit debt owed by the states (h/t ProJo). They provide three ratings for the two categories: Solid Performer, Needs Improvement and Serious Concerns. Despite giving Rhode Island (report here) positive marks for addressing it’s pension…