Patrick Laverty
That was the answer given by SEIU Local 580 President Phillip Keefe about his union’s response to the fact that Crossroads RI decided to back Engage RI in the recent pension reform discussions. In today’s Providence Journal, Crossroads’ president said they’re getting some of their donation cards back with a different response from the past.…
GoLocalProv has a weekly article by Dan McGowan where he tracks the locals that are “Hot or Not“, which is more a barometer of public perception than any physical characteristics. It’s pretty surprising to see David Cicilline ranked as a “hot” in a week where he’s been getting negative criticism from his own party and…
This seems like another one like I referenced earlier with the call for a “Wait, What?!” category, or maybe it’s even slipping into a different one, some three-letter acronym that begins with the same letter as “Wait, What?!” What is going on with this redistricting process? Let’s take a step back for a minute. What…
I think I need to ask Justin to add a new category of “Wait, what?!” as it seems every day there’s a new headline that just makes me shake me head and double check to see if I’m actually reading The Onion. Today’s is the Breaking News headline on the Providence Journal: Chafee to ask…
An interesting note today on Ian Donnis’ WRNI blog, where he referred back to an article of his from back in June. According to Cicilline spokeswoman Jessica Kershaw: The redistricting process has not yet begun, but looking ahead, Congressman Cicilline has confidence that this process will be done fairly and in a way that causes…
Being new to this blogging thing, I always want to tread carefully when throwing around accusations and possible libelous statements. So it’s so much easier when someone else throws around the words that I can simply quote. “He’s a liar” is a great one. This was said by Anthony Gemma in reference to Congressman David…
This seemed like one of those articles that you read the headlines and think to yourself “Nah, it can’t really be about something like that.” The headlines read: Air Force: Remains of service members went to landfill Air Force dumped hundreds of remains of dead soldiers from Dover base into landfill: report Pretty horrible, right?…
Today, we’re still arguing over what to call a decorated evergreen tree and still driving around with our faded “Never Forget 9/11” bumper and rear window stickers. But the sad part is we have forgotten. No, not about September 11th, many of us do respectfully and somberly remember that every year. What we do forget…
Herman Cain made his announcement today that he is stepping away from his race for the Republican nomination to be the US President. First, we have no way of knowing for sure if the many allegations against him were true. Nothing was ever proven definitively, but of course where there’s smoke, there’s often fire. How…
Earlier in the week, Congressman David Cicilline surprisingly attacked John Loughlin for wanting to destroy Medicare. Back during the campaign, we were told that Loughlin wanted to destroy Social Security and now we’re being told it’s Medicare. I was a little confused as to why the switch of plans to destroy, but an article in…
