Monique Chartier
Following upon the defeat of Joseph Montalbano by Edward O’Neill (I) of Lincoln, rumors are flying that Senate Majority Leader Teresa Paiva-Weed (D), she who denied the will of a substantial majority in the House and the Senate by killing the e-verify legislation during the last two General Assembly sessions, is slated to be the…
In an October 11 (Saturday, ahem) ProJo article by Katherine Gregg, … the treasurer’s office acknowledged that the state’s pension fund has lost 25 percent of its value since the beginning of the year, dropping from $8.4 billion to $6.3 billion. LTE writer George Lavoie points out, however, that Katherine Gregg used the wrong benchmark…
Rather than to the Consumer Price Index, shouldn’t raises for members of the General Assembly in some way be tied to job performance? My own thought would be a factor which combines the growth in jobs in the state with the increase in the median salary in the state. What other factors should be considered?…
Further to a prior conversation thread, Anchor Rising does not specialize in scoops. But if someone – in this case, Will Ricci of the Ocean State Republican, with access to a telephone but not a computer – kindly offers one, this contributor at least will not refuse it. East Providence teachers met this afternoon to…
Donald notes the latest lowering of the income level at which a taxpayer “will not see one dime’s worth of tax increase” in an Obama administration. Let’s be clear that it has been a steady and orderly backing down from that $250,000. > Starts at $250,000. [The campaign presumably figures out shortly thereafter, either from…
Mark Zaccaria (R) and Congressman James Langevin (D) square off this afternoon at 4:00 on WPRO‘s Dan Yorke Show.
From the Orlando Sentinel. Dolphins owner H. Wayne Huizenga said Sunday no date has been set for selling up to 45 percent more of the team to Stephen Ross, but the presidential election is among the issues weighing on his decision. That’s because a Barack Obama administration is expected to mean higher capital-gains taxes. “He…
Not a.r.m.’s or balloon payments this time. It seems that Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT), in addition to millions in campaign contributions from the industry he purports to regulate, also received a couple of sweetheart mortgages totalling $800,000 from Countrywide Financial. Kevin Rennie in Sunday’s Hartford Courant: Sen. Christopher Dodd’s bewildering odyssey of entitlement, evasions and…
Jack Welch, former Chairman and CEO of General Electric was a guest this morning on ABC’s This Week. He describes his company’s first hand experience with Rhode Island’s anti-business climate and how it is the “Don’t” model for dealing with a financial crisis. [Commenter Mike points us to this item.] The New York Times this…
Possibly hoping to tap disenchantment with the recent performance of the stock market, Workforce Management reports that Powerful House Democrats are eyeing proposals to overhaul the nation’s $3 trillion 401(k) system, including the elimination of most of the $80 billion in annual tax breaks that 401(k) investors receive. House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George…