Monique Chartier
Let’s play a new game. It’s called: “Identify That Whine” It’s simple. Read the following two statements. Determine which is a declaration of facts designed to educate and motivate and which is whining. But the overall budget – taxes and spending – is set by the General Assembly. All of the increases in Marc’s chart…
Get out the scoreboard. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-New York), who had endorsed the idea just two weeks ago, has this afternoon done a one eighty on the question of drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants. “I support Governor Spitzer’s decision today to withdraw his proposal,” Clinton said in a statement. “As president, I will not support…
Governor Eliot Spitzer has backed off his controversial plan to issue drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Wednesday dropped a controversial plan to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants because of overwhelming opposition to the policy. “I’ve concluded that New York state cannot conduct this program on its own,” Spitzer…
Last week, certain leaders of organized labor in Rhode Island called for the resignation of the Chairman of the Rhode Island Republican Party, Giovanni Cicione. They referred to his “insensitive and hurtful statement” about the Governor’s proposed layoff of 1,000 state workers, his use of the term “poverty pimps” and his “remarks equating unions with…
Marc Comtois has noted the revised (upward) state operating deficit which stems from a decline in income and sales tax revenue. Before we go bounding off to look for replacement tax revenue, let’s take a quick look at “How Rhode Island’s State and Local Expenditures Compare – 2006 Edition”, an analysis compiled by RIPEC. Per…
Under “Institutional Racism, Quotas and Cranston”, commenter EMT makes the following observation: Actually, they need another station in Western Cranston (10-minute response times are unacceptable for a paid department in 2007), and NFPA-complaint staffing department wide. It would probably double the department, minus a few. There are a couple of broad implications in this comment.…
Question for anyone who drives a pickup truck. Would a pipe bomb in the back of your truck escape your attention as you drove to work? Overreaching for an explanation now, how if someone dropped it in while you were stopped at a red light? The Palo Verde nuclear power plant, the largest in the…
Under “Senator Clinton: Illegals Should Have Licenses”, commenter Greg asks, “Has anyone heard if insurance companies have signed on to the plan to give illegal aliens coverage?” After some quick research on this question, it appears that they have. The concern is that illegal aliens simply will not purchase the insurance – or they will…
Ian Donnis of the Providence Phoenix has kindly e-mailed me the link on his blog to his conversation with Speaker William Murphy regarding the A. Duie Pyle tax legislation. “Conversation”, which connotes a certain back and forth, is perhaps too strong a word, which Ian indicates up front. House Speaker William J. Murphy just returned…
Last month, Mike Stanton at the Providence Journal broke the story that the FBI was investigating allegations that Senator Stephen Alves (D-West Warwick) killed a tax break for trucking company A. Duie Pyle for personal financial reasons – or lack thereof. At the time, Speaker of the House William Murphy (D-West Warwick) denied any knowledge…
