Monique Chartier
With the recently exposed multi-year, multi-million dollar deficit in Woonsocket’s school budget and the subsequent downgrade of the city’s bonds, Woonsocket now qualifies for receivership, a.k.a., municipal bankruptcy, under Rhode Island’s new, albeit overarching, law. The big question now is whether the state will step in and start that process. Though terse, we get a…
H’mmm, do you suppose if we could get taxpayers reclassified as pets, Senator Tassoni would be a little more concerned about our welfare …? A Rhode Island lawmaker says it’s unfair that pets and other animals don’t get a voice in court when their welfare is at stake. State Sen. John Tassoni has written legislation…
“Deficiencies In Internal Fiscal Controls”: Woonsocket School Committee Brings Down The City (Bonds)
So Monday night, with the Governor in attendance, Mayor Fontaine broke the disastrous findings of the audit of the school department’s budget. Thanks, in large part, to $4 million in overspending on salaries, the Woonsocket Education Department is projected to exceed their 2012 budget by more than $7.3 million. A budgetary recap is in order…
I’m all for cutting government. But this? A page taken directly from the David Cicilline Handbook On Governing? The Rhode Island Society of CPAs (RISCPA) announced its strong opposition today to Governor Chafee’s proposal to abolish the Rhode Island Bureau of Audits. Under the Governor’s proposed FY2013 budget (House Bill 7323, Article 4), the Bureau,…
… just this afternoon. Posted here in accordance with A.R. policy. Looks like WJAR broke it. Former House Minority Leader Robert Watson pleaded no contest Thursday to a charge of marijuana possession. Watson was arraigned in Washington County District Court. According to a court clerk, Judge Mary McCaffrey imposed the recommended sentence, and if Watson…
… and they are poised to storm the Campaign 2012 beach! The formation of the Strike Force was announced last night at Perella’s restaurant in Warren. The volunteer corps (no “e”, Mr. President) will be the boots on the ground in the campaigns of Republican candidates for the General Assembly – to assist with events,…
… so the ProJo itself announced earlier today. Starting on Tuesday, The Providence Journal will begin charging some subscribers for access to the newspaper’s digital editions. I came across the announcement just now while browsing Rhode Island news. But readers of “On Politics” with Ian Donnis and Scott MacKay would have learned about it three…
It took a moment to grasp the misanthropic message of this bumper sticker, spotted in Cranston recently. When it fully registered, I was shocked. (Yes, that’s a stork off on the right, carrying a “bundle”.)
Having presumably raked in a campaign haul for Rhode Island’s junior senator (which will be especially welcome in view of the senator’s latest approval numbers), Vice President Joe Biden has come and gone from Road Rhode Island. A couple of hours before his arrival, however, senatorial candidate Barry Hinckley released this … er, “public service”…
Today’s ProJo contained a description of the most alarming threat to the private ownership of real estate that I’ve seen since the Kelo vs New London ruling. A [RI] Superior Court judge has ruled that some neighbors, not Our Redeemer Evangelical Luther-an Church, own a piece of land because they have had uncontested use of…