Monique Chartier
… which includes $83,000 a month in disability pensions. And that item could have been even higher, if you can believe it, but Pawtucket has an enlightened – by Rhode Island standards – rule that shifts disability pensioners over to a regular pension at retirement age. (So there are cities and towns which do not…
Remember that DOT staffer busted by WPRI for sleeping, eating and reading for half the work day? Well, he’s back on the job – but during a different shift. The Department of Transportation worker caught in a Target 12 Investigation spending hours on the clock sleeping, eating and reading novels over several weeks, is back…
One larger observation before jumping in. You know, here we are, at the point that we can see the day, in the near future, when public pension checks will bounce. Yet rather than focus on what is the state’s biggest crisis in many decades (arguably of the last century or more), Senate Majority Leader Dominick…
First, former Providence Mayor David Cicilline spent seven years carrying out the charade that he was being tough on the contract demands of the Providence firefighters so that he could falsely claim the title of Champion of the Taxpayer. Then, as the end of his second term approached and it became clear that the lack…
That’s what Ian Donnis is hearing. If these murmurings are true (and I wouldn’t bother to post if someone of less than Ian’s credibility had reported it), no one should be more relieved than the Truth Commissioner himself because the former governor’s considerable campaign strengths, pointed out by Ian, Carcieri has some key assets that…
… in our Medicaid dollars. (Hey, Ken, will you be looking in any other areas?) By the way, apparently he’ll be doing it for free. This is very nice of him but personally, I’d have no problem with the state paying for such a service – a fee based on a percentage of dollars recovered…
Presumably, the Central Falls school administration messed up by placing Ms. Legault on leave and then forgetting (or ???) that they did so. And it goes without saying that it would be a rare occurance, indeed, for private sector resources to be squandered in this way. Elizabeth Legault started out the year as co-principal at…
Confronted with the “category 5 hurricane” that is Providence’s financial condition, Mayor Angel Taveras has had to implement some difficult and unpopular budget measures. Notices of potential termination to all teachers (though a majority+ will not actually lose their job) and the closing of some schools. A 5.25% property tax hike and an increase in…
Assuming it’s not a really clever photoshop, Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s defense attorneys undoubtedly shuddered when this International Monetary Fund photograph by Stephen Jaffe went up on The Corner late this afternoon.
So here’s where we stand. > Tomorrow at 2 pm, G.T. Gina Raimondo presents the history and making of Rhode Island’s pension crisis, to be followed by a “menu” of remedy options. > She admits to being on a bit of a crusade. Like that’s a bad thing when even a liberal think tank in…