Marc Comtois
Your tax dollars at work (double entendre intended). The police say that Joanna “Rosa” Gonzalez, a 28-year-old mother of two in Wanskuck, was employing dozens of people including her mother, her sister, their boyfriends, and their children in a crack-cocaine enterprise that covered the city from the North End to the West Side. The operation…
I’m not a dead-ender on Iraq, but I do think we’ve got to give the new–albeit too-long in coming–strategy time to work. I suspect readers will just breeze on past this post as many, probably most, already have their minds made up. To them, we are frozen in time: the situation in Iraq will always…
Turns out President Bush is only partially to blame for the high gas prices….(h/t and a wink) An eagle-eyed Senate GOP aide, perusing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Web site, calls attention to her assertion there that “Americans are paying more than double for gas than when President Bush first took office.” She says the average…
By now, this is low-hanging fruit. But duty impels us to prescribe the ProJo’s Neil Downing report on a new RIPEC report- “How Rhode Island Compares“: Rhode Island has one of the nation’s highest tax burdens – and a big reason for that is local property taxes, a new study shows. Based on the overall…
Ian Donnis over at N4N invokes the Supreme Court “giving” the election to George W. Bush in 2000 as a lead-in to the National Popular Vote movement. Both Andrew and I have posted about this before. Here’s a baseball analogy just for Ian, via a Bruce Bartlett piece from 2000: It will be as if…
The ProJo editorializes against putting a Yacht yard on the spot where a container port would go: The explanation for the state’s alacrity in welcoming a mega-yacht center: Governor Carcieri, who entered public life by opposing a container port, and some of his followers in the summer yacht-club crowd (some of whom only live in…
About a week ago, Dan Yorke interviewed Cumberland Mayor Dan McKee about the bottom-up education reform package he was shopping around. Since then, McKee has gained some support and he and Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian were on yesterday’s ABC 6’s On The Record with Jim Hummel to talk about the plan. McKee and Avedisian talked…
Gambling, Alcohol and Tobacco are all subject to “sin” taxes. We may as well add gasoline to the mix, too. According to the The National Center for Policy Analysis, all of ’em hit the poor hardest (h/t). Here’s a distillation of the Executive Summary of their report. “The dollar amount spent on the lottery by…
Of all the ink spilled (or pixels populated) over the Libby pardon, perhaps Ben Stein’s take sums it up best (h/t). Nuff said.