Marc Comtois
I know Mila Kunis from watching a few episodes of That 70’s Show and Family Guy (both funny, but I’m not a “fanboy”). In general, she’s always struck me as a cute, funny actress with a genuine one-of-the-guys/little sister vibe (hey, I’m over 40 now!). I haven’t seen it, but she also gained some critical…
It’s tedious to follow the debt ceiling/budget deficit wrangling, I know. Around here, we have the ProJo trumpeting tax increases as the “obvious fix” and telling the Republicans “to do what grownups do” while explaining that “the health-care reform law passed last year would have begun to kick in its projected savings for the government”…
Michael Barone points to a piece by Fred Barnes (sub req’d, but Barnes has mentioned this before) that explains that helping an economy by reducing spending can be done. Barone summarizes: In the 1990s Canada’s Liberal party government reduced its national debt and revived its economy by, among other things, reducing federal employment by 45,000…
…one of the reasons we love this crazy, mixed up state is days like this. So enjoy it!
I touched on some of the goings on at the NEA convention earlier in the week. Stephen Sawchuk of Education Week and Patrick Riccards at Eduflack have summaries up about the now-wrapped NEA convention and what came out of it. Some points from Sawchuk: * [T]he NEA removed the sentence from its resolution on compensation…
CATO has put out a simple video explaining that the “drastic cuts” being bandied about ain’t no such thing, they’re just the typical political cuts (ie; a reduction in the previously projected rate of growth) (h/t):
Glenn Reynolds has been noting the “unexpectedly” bad job reports for many months now. In other words, for some reason, news outlets, pundits and the government all seem to be surprised that the job market continues to stink. Month after month, they’ve amped up hopes that unemployment is going to go down while new job…
Expecting politicians to act with sexual propriety is loser’s bet, I know. And you can call me an up-tight, un-modern Puritan prig or whatever, but it just isn’t good when the Mayor of the largest city in the state–someone who is, correctly and properly, a role model for minority youth–reveals he is having a child…
WPRO’s Bob Plain piqued my interest with his story on how the new law (PDF, pg. 145 of file) allowing cities and towns to shift municipal retirees’ from private health care plans to Medicare will save Providence about $11.5 million. I haven’t heard what sort of savings this could mean for my hometown of Warwick’s…
Justin wonders if there’s a catch with the ease with which voter ID sailed through the legislature and the Governor’s inbox. Here’s a theory for you: RI GOP Chair Ken McKay was in for WHJJ’s Helen Glover this morning and had on someone from GOLOCALProv touting their story about the disparity between census data and…