Monique Chartier
Following upon a very well attended hearing yesterday, Opponents clogged the State House committee room, spilling into the marble hallway and lining the walls. Some held signs of protest above their heads for hours. It was an unusual display for a workday hearing on a legislative proposal entitled simply, “School Teacher Arbitration.” the Providence Journal’s…
H5142, which would expand the scope of the binding arbitration process to include monetary issues for teachers and non-teacher educational employees. It would also streamline the actual binding arbitration process itself. is scheduled to be heard by the House Labor Committee at 2:00 pm this Wednesday in Room 313 at the State House. Let’s remember,…
The following e-mail was distributed today to members of NEARI. A message from NEARI President Larry Purtill: URGENT!!!! The RI House Labor Committee will hear legislation on binding arbitration for teachers Wednesday, October 21, 2 PM at the State House, and the full General Assembly is scheduled to reconvene October 28-29. After over two decades…
In a prior post, a comment by Warrington Faust sent me to research Kennewick Man, the name given to a man who lived 9,300 years ago and whose remains, discovered in 1996 in the bank of a river, became the subject of a legal tug-of-war between archeologists and the Native American community of the state…
Let’s hope that the Justice Department’s investigation (see Justin’s post) leads in due course to prosecution. If it does not, the United States may well be left blind, without an intelligence/counter-intelligence department because no one will be willing to take or keep such important jobs. And who could blame them? In the absence of prosecution…
From yesterday’s Providence Journal. The Rhode Island Supreme Court has ordered that the Stephen M. Hunter’s license to practice law be suspended for one year. Hunter has been convicted of five crimes. One felony and four misdemeanors. And just one year later, Mr. Hunter will once again be able to practice law with the blessing…
Noon, Monday, by the flagpole on Brown University’s Main Green. Organized by WPRO’s John DePetro, the Brown Spectator and the Brown College Republicans. From John DePetro’s press release. … the decision by the faculty at Brown University to change the name of the Columbus Day holiday is “a tremendous insult to all Italian-Americans.” DePetro said…
The RIGOP this week filed an ethics complaint against Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch (D) for violating the state’s $75 gift cap by accepting a roundtrip plane ticket worth $428.50 from the National Cable and Telecommunications Association The genesis of this complaint – the impetus for the RIGOP to look more closely at the…
Justin says Think of the thoroughness of the union mentality (or dementality) necessary for no union members, of several occupations, to see the immorality of preventing disabled veterans from reaching the hospital or to take pains to minimize the effects of their “action.” Indeed, a mentality is at fault here but it is important to…
From the AP via Turn to Ten: A Rhode Island lawmaker says House Speaker William Murphy has told his colleagues he’s stepping down from his leadership post when the next term begins. Rep. Kenneth Carter told The Associated Press he was in a meeting last week in which Murphy told his committee chairs he would…