Monique Chartier
Add ballot inaccessibility to the list of Rhode Island’s dubious distinctions. With its requirement that a new party collect signatures from 5% of registered voters, Rhode Island is in a four way tie for dead last in this category. [Insert the well known list of Rhode Island’s problems directly attributable to poor managment.] But with…
Following upon the court ruling [Press Release PDF] in May that extended the timeframe for collecting the nearly 25,000 signatures needed to gain official recognition as a political party in Rhode Island, the Moderate Party has wasted no time buckling down to the task. Below, Max Bradshaw and Jack Crook collect signatures at the Stop…
Rhode Island General Law Title 16, Chapter 16-2, Section 16-2-21.4 Does > Permits school committees to sue their city/town for failing to fully fund their budget. the school committee shall have the right to seek additional appropriations by bringing an action in the superior court > Requires a financial and performance audit in the event…
John DePetro observed Monday that certain members of the General Assembly are not inclined to close this legal loophole because its continued existence might increase Rhode Island’s convention business. (Wouldn’t it be far preferable on a number of levels to draw business here with an economically friendly climate instead of via our children?) Those legislators…
And we’re not talking about another auto bailout. From today’s Detroit News. About 2,600 Detroit Public Schools teachers and staff will have to reapply for their jobs by Friday or face losing their positions under a massive shakeup that has union leaders crying foul. Forty-one schools will be “reconstituted” and all staff positions among them…
The Woonsocket City Council confronted two starkly conflicting fiscal developments at last night’s meeting. The first was the news that come November, a company would be relocating out of Woonsocket and taking with it the wages and taxes of two hundred and fifty jobs. The second was a verbal report from the City Solicitor, Robert…
A defect to suit every taste. – Contrary to representations by the Obama administration, the proposed reform would increase not “Reduce long-term growth of health care costs for businesses and government”. – Funding to come at the expense of Medicare; i.e., care of our seniors. In fact, the Philadelphia Inquirer, not exactly a radical right…
On Thursday, our delegation unanimously applauded the legislative progress being made on the nationalization …er, the reform of our healthcare system. In the last eight months, two Congresses and two Presidents have spent the following sums. TARP (bank bailout): $700 billion pledged; $200 billion distributed of which $66 billion has been repaid. Bailout of AIG:…
On June 26, 2009, Congressman Patrick Kennedy returned to the House of Representatives to cast a partisan vote in favor of the Waxman-Markey Climate Change bill known as Cap & Trade. A few days later, a blast e-mail arrived from the Congressman’s office to tell Rhode Island how proud of this vote he was. Despite…
Justin notes the state’s latest unemployment figure. Rhode Island now has the second highest unemployment rate in the nation. A Providence Bus News article posted July 8 suggests a major contributing factor in the form of other dubious rankings, which together mean that Rhode Island’s economic outlook ranked 48th among states in a new study…