Monique Chartier
The Ocean State Republican has the press release. Rep. Loughlin’s solution for Rhode Island’s substantial public pension liability is here. Check out his profile on Project Vote Smart. (H’mm, he voted in favor of voter i.d.) Visit his page on the Rhode Island House of Representatives web site which includes “latest initiatives and legislative activities”.…
First of all, ya gotta love the name. Some spin meister someplace was on all sixteen cylinders when s/he thought of that term for curbing the speech of protesters by herding them away from the action. “Free speech zones” have featured at the national conventions of both the Democrat and Republican parties, where the phrase…
From today’s Providence Journal. Voters will decide Tuesday whether to cut $1.3 million from the $59.6-million school budget for the next fiscal year. A special all-day referendum was scheduled after hundreds of taxpayers filed a petition following a Town Council vote last month to approve the spending plan. Councilman James W. O’Neill, who cast the…
This is a rare, fortuitous instance in which one ProJo article answers another. On Friday night (an interesting day in itself to hold a hearing), state and local public employees flocked to the Statehouse to advocate for no changes in pension benefits. Public employees packed a State House hearing on Friday in an eleventh-hour effort…
Justin, how about the Daily Show with Jon Stewart instead of SNL? NewsBusters’ Noel Sheppard concludes his post highlighting a segment of Comedy Central’s not-exactly-right-wing mock news show thusly. I guess it’s time for NBC and others in the media to understand that when your gushing and fawning for Obama is fodder for comedians, you…
Referring to the federal government acquisition of 60% of General Motors, President Obama stated that the government would refrain from playing a management role in all but the most critical areas It appears, however, that “critical” is in the eye of the beholder. The latest self-appointed car czar is Massachusetts’s own Barney Frank, who intervened…
Is this even legally feasible? A formal complaint has been filed against the school department and the Town of West Warwick by Donald Vanasse, President of the West Warwick Teachers’ Alliance, citing an impending failure to pay accrued wages and salaries. He has reason to believe that there will be a failure to pay the…
This is the improbable combination suggested by commenter Joe Bernstein under Justin’s post. But sure enough … Do not expect these recommendations to be carried forward if Eric Holder decides to forgo his lucrative corporate law practice at Covington & Burling and accept the U.S. Attorney General position for which many believe he is the…
On Friday, Andrew highlighted a letter to the editor laying out some of the issues that has prompted the June 9 Referendum, at which the town will decide whether to cut the school fund property tax appropriation (not the entire school budget) by 2.7%. This sign, urging a “no” vote on the cut, has popped…
A heads up to our elected officials as public sector contracts come up for renewal or must be reopened: twenty percent no longer cuts it. A new national report shows U.S. residents enrolled in employer-sponsored health plans will cover an average of 41 percent of their families’ health care costs this year, the largest share…