General Assembly
This is not encouraging: [Rhode Island’s] Legislative leaders have scheduled hearings or floor votes for 196 individual proposals between Tuesday afternoon and Thursday night. And that number is expected to grow. … The scope of the agenda apparently surprised several political observers. “I thought it was going to be more targeted,” said John Marion, executive…
You know the Rhode Island way of doing government is sickly when the habits and practices of elected officials drive the political left and right so close as to leave no space whatsoever between them. Witness Bob Kerr‘s suggestion that the state replace its current system of selecting its Speaker of the House through back-room…
Want another bit of evidence that Rhode Island ain’t done sinking, yet? Tune into the Speaker of the House race, as Ed Fitzpatrick does, here. Ed’s right that this story is very Rhode Island: In the small world of State House politics, the contest is coming down to three lawyer/legislators who shared a Broadway office…
Ian Donnis of WRNI’s On Politics blog points to a Mark Arsenault article in the Boston Globe, mostly about the state government shutdown-days, but that also mentions Governor Donald Carcieri’s plan to eliminate $32 million in local aid to help balance the state budget. According to the spokesman for Rhode Island’s Speaker of the House,…
