Monique Chartier
From today’s Providence Journal: The School Committee voted late Tuesday night to sue the city for $4.9 million in additional education aid, setting the stage for a costly, bruising legal battle. The committee became the second in the state this year, after the West Warwick board, to authorize a lawsuit seeking more cash from a…
… namely, the quality of his own presidency. From the Telegraph (UK): Standing in his cowboy boots on the back of a 1941 Ford pick-up truck in tiny Zebulon (population: 4,329), Bill Clinton bestowed on his wife Hillary what he perhaps considers the ultimate accolade. She would, he stated gallantly, be an even better president…
Secretary of State Ralph Mollis appeared on WHJJ’s Helen Glover Show this morning. He attempted to explain why a voter I.D. law that passed a US Supreme Court challenge by six to three cannot be brought to Rhode Island during this legislative session The only logistic barrier to this law is the absence of a…
Will Ricci over at The Ocean State Republican points out that Today marks the 232nd anniversary of the declaration of independence by the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations from Great Britain on May 4, 1776. As Rhode Island did not ratify the US Constitution until May of 1790, it was for all intents…
… or, more specifically, what’s-his-name’s column, about which in recent months has been vocalized much disapproval from several quarters. It appears that Charlie Hall would not disagree.
Under Justin’s post, commenter Rhody remarks: The teachers are back to school (under a court order), they don’t have a new contract, and still people are kicking them. If any of us were sent back to work under a court order, our attitude might not be that great, either. Remember, kids coming out of college…
It appears that Secretary of State Ralph Mollis left the two most important reforms to Rhode Island’s electoral process out of his “Voter First” Legislative Package. The Secretary of State does not address at all his exclusion of a voter identification requirement from the package. As for the straight party lever, Secretary Mollis had this…
A caller to WPRO’s Matt Allen Show today came up with the idea of charging a fee for every bill that a Rhode Island legislator wishes to file. Matt suggested $500 a pop, to be deducted from the legislator’s annual salary. In view of the many look-at-me, pointlessly distracting bills that are filed every session,…
The New York Times is predicting gloom, doom and lawsuits as far as the eye can see. But anyone who values honest elections is breaking out the champagne to celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling yesterday which upheld Indiana’s voter i.d. law, a law which is hopefully coming soon to a polling place near…
The Department of Homeland Security posts on their website updated information of border enforcement activity. Coast Guard Repatriates 24 Dominicans, 1 Colombian April 22, 2008 (San Juan, Puerto Rico) – The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Chincoteague repatriated a Colombian and 24 Dominican migrants to La Romana, Dominican Republic, following an at-sea interdiction by Department…