Monique Chartier
Patrick highlights the recommendation by a Board of Regents panel that the state offer to illegal aliens the ability to attend state colleges at the much lower tuition rate paid by in-state residents. The ProJo 7 to 7 News Blog reports that the Board of Regents Board of Governors for Higher Education is expected to…
Heh. As the 2012 presidential campaign heats up, President Obama’s campaign team has set up a new Web site, AttackWatch.com, to challenge negative statements about the president made by Republican presidential candidates and conservatives. Obama for America national field director Jeremy Bird told ABC News that the site’s goal is to offer “resources to fight…
Usually, when Democrats on the national level propose something that is misguided, irresponsible, stupid or – worst of all – presuming of stupidity on the listener’s part, it goes in one ear and out the other. As this item from the President’s speech Thursday night is all of the above in truckloads, however, there simply…
Further to Patrick’s post and in response to my question, You voted “No” on the following amendment. An amendment numbered 38 printed in House Report 112-88 to require that the rules of engagement allow any military service personnel assigned to duty in a designated hostile fire area to have rules of engagement that fully protects…
That’s what the Obama campaign must be quietly saying after reading the column of the not-exactly-right-leaning Maureen Dowd in the not-exactly-Republican-sympathizing New York Times. (“Languid”? “Flailing”? Yikes!) … If the languid Obama had not done his usual irritating fourth-quarter play, if he had presented a jobs plan a year ago and fought for it, he…
Under Patrick’s post, Max Diesel asks Does anyone know how much this clown’s pension was bumped with and without the disability after coming back as chief? The answer is that, in Rhode Island, a regular pension is taxable. A disability pension is not taxable. And this continues for the life of the retiree. But why…
Congressman Cicilline: I turn to this forum to communicate with you because your Congressional website bars you from receiving e-mail from anyone outside of your district. You voted “No” on the following amendment. An amendment numbered 38 printed in House Report 112-88 to require that the rules of engagement allow any military service personnel assigned…
On the last day to do so, Former Mayor Susan Menard has filed declaration papers for the office of mayor. (Woonsocket has off year elections.) It should be noted that pulling papers is only a first step to running for office. The Valley Breeze correctly points out that Critics of Menard may wonder, however, if…
[Note: In the article excerpted below, the Woonsocket Call, bless them, is using the term “pension reform” erroneously. What they are referencing is the “proposed increase of employer pension contribution”.] [Note II: In the note above, the word “employer” is used as it has widely has in the indicated phrase. While technically correct, it is,…
As you may have heard, US Fish and Wildlife have been cracking down on those fiends at Gibson Guitar. (H/T Glenn Beck.) Federal Agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raided factories and offices of Gibson Guitar in Memphis and Nashville on Wednesday, seizing wood pallets, electronic files and guitars. Federal authorities are apparently…