Monique Chartier
How not to interact with a member of the public. How not to interact with a member of the media. [Warning: language.] And an oldie but a goodie in the spirit of bipartisanship: how not to interact with another dignitary.
This year’s deficit was $220 million. 2011 stands at $440 million. But three quarters of a billion dollars is the number for 2012. Gubernatorial candidate John Robitaille revealed this startling and grim projection last night at the East Providence Super Spring Spectacular. It’s being called the Medicaid Cliff. In two years, federal stimulus monies stop…
One of those trouble makers in East Providence sent me this. SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbor. COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk. FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk. NAZISM You have 2 cows.…
In Friday’s Orange County Register. Hence, Bill Clinton energetically on the stump, summoning all his elder statesman’s dignity (please, no giggling) in the cause of comparing Tea Partiers to Timothy McVeigh. Oh, c’mon, they’ve got everything in common. They both want to reduce the size of government, the late Mr. McVeigh through the use of…
In today’s Providence Journal, Mike Stanton and W. Zachary Malinowski do a thorough follow up investigation into the story, originally broken by the Hummel Report’s Jim Hummel, about outrageous board-up fees which were facilitated by the official action of that city’s mayor. In it, we learn that Mayor Charles D. Moreau has hired counsel. Moreau’s…
One of the more alarming aspects of the new revelations about the West Warwick pension fund is the lamentation by the Pension Board Chairman, Geoffrey E. Rousselle, that sunshine has been thrown on the matter. He suggested that the dispute should not have turned public. “It upsets me,” Rousselle said. “I don’t know how that…
… and all the more troubling because, as the Arizona law is a carbon copy of federal law, they reflect his views on the issue of illegal immigration. The first is the basis of his objection. Our failure to act responsibly at the federal level will only open the door to irresponsibility by others. ……
… is superb. If you’re time constrained, fast forward to minute 8:25. (“Revolution Muslim”, referenced in the screen cap below, is the name of the organization/website which posted the threats to the show’s producers.) The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Justin, along with many of us avid watchers of the State House, was a little startled to learn that former Speaker Pro Tem Charlene Lima (D, Cranston) had not only dropped by the Tea Party Thursday but had offered expressions of camaraderie. Converted politicians are certainly welcome to the good government cause. It is difficult,…
Over at Rescuing Providence, as is his wont, EMT blogger Michael Morse reports on an interesting rescue call. Called to the local high school for a female having difficulty breathing. Arrive on scene to find the female lying in the nurses office, on the couch hyperventilating. I learned that she is a Geometry teacher who…