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List courtesy WPRI’s Ted Nesi. The summit takes place this Friday at RI College; Nesi provides schedule and format details here. John Simmons, Executive Director, Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council Robert Flanders Jr., Chairman of the Board of Regents Ray M. Di Pasquale, Commissioner of Higher Education Elizabeth Roberts, Lieutenant Governor (tentative) Anne Nolan, President…
Between the bad roads and the bad politics, no wonder: The study says about 30 million Americans admit to driving drunk every year, according to a new federal study, and 10 million say they drove while impaired by illicit drugs. Remarkably, those numbers are down from about five years ago. Rhode Island was found to…
The delay in bringing this “coverage” to your attention was engendered entirely by myself and not by the estimable Mr. Hall, whose observations are invariably timely. I somehow missed a batch of his work from last month and this one was too fun important not to highlight. Courtesy Ocean State Follies
Despite a day that was keeping me on the jump Friday, I got to listen to Fred Thompson at the moment when, in his low key way, he was suggesting a more conciliatory way (in contrast with the approach taken by President Obama) that the president could have presented the unemployment-bennies-for-tax-rate-extension compromise legislation. Such an…
In the wake of its most recent release of US classified documents, WikiLeaks lost its domain name (though the website is still accessible via its IP address), Amazon kicked it off their cloud servicer and WikiLeaks lost a cash flow source when Paypal discontinued its account. Meanwhile, Sweden’s highest court cleared the way for the…
Governor-Elect Chafee has declined to reconsider his decision to rescind Governor Carcieri’s Executive Order 08-01 (pdf) on the grounds that he cannot back away from a promise that he made during the campaign. After looking over some of Mr. Chafee’s other campaign promises, I’m excited to hear this – at least, his grounds for doing…
Bob Walsh, Executive Director of the NEA RI, whom we all wish a speedy recovery from his procedure today, called in to the WPRO Dan Yorke Show yesterday morning. After clarifying that his “medical leave” involved a previously scheduled surgery and not a ploy to distract from the NEA’s travails, he went on to address…
NEA RI Assistant Executive Director John Leidecker was arrested this morning by Bristol and RI State Police accused of the online impersonation of Bristol State Representative Doug Gablinske. Mr. Leidecker, who holds a law degree from Roger Williams University School of Law [edit] and is a practicing attorney, allegedly sent phony e-mails to constituents using…
Al Gore has let the cat out of the bag. On Wednesday, addressing a green energy business conference in Greece (undoubtedly, a non-greenhouse gas emitting tall ship carried the advocate of AGW there from the US), the former VP admitted that the net energy produced from corn grown for ethanol is at best very small…
We learn of the budget summit – neither date nor location firm at this point – from Ted Nesi over at WPRI 12. Gov.-elect Lincoln Chafee will hold a daylong budget summit next month to kick-start discussions of how to close Rhode Island’s $300 million projected deficit for the fiscal year that starts July 1,…