Marc Comtois
Justin correctly questions the actual effectiveness of the hoop-jumping job creation incentives recently laid out by the Governor. (As commenter Roland writes under Justin’s post, apparently it is a way to use stimulus money for short term gain). This morning, I heard Helen Glover reading from this American Thinker piece about the problem with this…
UPDATE: Reuters has pulled the original story that this post was based on. MMM…..egg. Alan Viard of the American Enterprise Institute explains.
Former Steve Laffey campaign manager John Dodenhoff (he ran Laffey’s Senate campaign in 2006) was on the Dan Yorke Show to explain that he ate lunch last week with Michael Lepizzera (former Laffey campaign member, now affiliated with Frank Caprio) who put forward an idea of having Frank Caprio run as a Republican so long…
I was surprised to learn that Warwick is alone in “weighing” its students based on whether or not they have an IEP (Individual Education Plan). It goes like this: kid with normal educational needs = 1; kid with IEP = 1.5 (and sometimes 2). So, as the Warwick Beacon reported last week, “there are 10,482…
It shouldn’t go unremarked that radical left historian Howard Zinn has passed away at the age of 87. Zinn, Matt Damon’s favorite historian, is best known for his A Peoples History of the United States, a controversial work that has generated mountains of debate within (and outside of) the historical profession. (He even caused a…
Cutting or consolidating sports programs is grabbing the headlines as Cranston tries to deal with it’s school budget deficit, but other programs are in danger as well. It’s not just the jocks. The $1.1-million in proposed cuts — which include the elementary school enrichment program along with strings, band and chorus, following the recommendations of…
I don’t have too much to say about the State of the Union Address, except for one question: has there ever been a military victory that has been so diminished in our nation’s history? As we take the fight to al Qaeda, we are responsibly leaving Iraq to its people. As a candidate, I promised…
Really, guys? A state advisory board is considering a new tax on workers to help bail out the beleaguered state trust fund that pays benefits to the unemployed….[It] could take the form of an addition to the tax that employees already pay into the state’s Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI) program. Revenue so raised would be…
As I’ve pointed out, one of the arguments made by the Healthcarism advocates was that we must pass something, anything and “the warts can be removed later.” Apparently, that attitude exists amongst global climate changistas, too (h/t): Some researchers have argued that it is unfair to attack the IPCC too strongly, pointing out that some…
As the only state without a funding formula, there is certainly something to be said for putting something in place so that cities and towns can have some ability to forecast what they’re going to have for education spending. That being said, I’m sure I’m not alone in having mixed feelings when I hear such…