Monique Chartier
How’d I miss this gem? Spoken by the junior senator from Rhode Island during a panel of Van Jones’ “2012 Take Back the American Dream” conference last month. Reported by The Blaze. Democratic Senator Whitehouse from Rhode Island chimed in, adding that he did not know a “single small business” that would be effected by…
As Marc notes, the Obama administration’s reaction to an unemployment number that remained unchanged at 8.2% is that it is “a step in the right direction”, as opposed to a Bush era unemployment rate of 5.6% which, according to candidate Barack Obama, was “too early to celebrate”. Further to this month’s unemployment figure, the Obama…
Now how is the Chafee administration supposed to fake conduct the nationwide search when this happens??? (Great job exposing this, Kathy Gregg.) A belated job posting drew 115 applicants for the $88,177-a-year Chafee-administration post held by former Miss Rhode Island Allison Rogers. Rogers, whose credentials include graduate and under-graduate degrees from Harvard University, was hired…
Firstly, a Manhatten judge has ruled that Twitter must release three months of tweets of a man charged with disorderly conduct. The D.A. had supboenaed the tweets to establish that the defendant knew that he was breaking the law when he marched on the Brooklyn Bridge during a mass demonstration related to the Occupy Wall…
You used to be able to read the Woonsocket Call on-line. Sometime in the last ten days, however, that changed. Now, when you click on an article, you get only the first paragraph or two followed by a non-clickable directive. Example below from today’s (I think) paper. WOONSOCKET — After receiving a quarter of its…
Kudos, by the way, to Anchor Rising Readers Poll winner Newsmakers (WPRI 12) for landing this interview. “Did I know Curt Schilling was interested in coming to Rhode Island? Absolutely,” Fox said Friday during a taping of WPRI 12’s Newsmakers. “Did we mandate that he get $75 million? Never! Never, never, never. Did we vet…
This illuminating exchange between Chairman Darrell Issa and John Galvin from President Obama’s Department of Labor Statistics took place in a committee hearing a couple of weeks ago but I didn’t become aware of it until John Gibson played the tape this week. (Youtube video of Chairman Issa’s exchange with the reluctant Mr. Galvin here.)…
So said Council President Budget Commission member John Ward on the air Friday to RIPR. If we can’t get negotiated settlements, we’re simply going to have to do much like Providence did and simply do it by ordinance. And we”ll freeze the COLA and we’ll change the health benefits, and we’ll cut salaries across the…
For the most part, a thorough and well-informed article by Ethan Epstein. And the sub-title Mayoral malpractice comes back to haunt a congressman. is a perfect description of the current tableau. However, in one regard, An internal audit commissioned by the city laid much of the blame at Cicilline’s feet. It found that he had…
From today’s Telegraph (U.K.). Despite opposition from the Liberal Democrats, who strongly support more renewable energy, the subsidy regime for onshore wind and solar panels is now firmly expected to be phased out by the end of the decade. A senior Conservative source said: “This is now very much the direction of travel.” At present,…