Rhode Island Politics
With the exemption of approximately one hundred state employees in the judiciary, Superior Court Judge Patricia Hurst yesterday denied Council 94’s request for a restraining order to halt Governor Carcieri’s Executive Order pertaining to health premium co-shares. An appeal of the Executive Order on the basis of an unfair labor practice is pending in front…
[Credit: The vote breakdown below was supplied by an unidentified but helpful woman in the Providence City Clerk’s office who also, upon being asked, provided an estimate of seven to ten days for promulgation of minutes of both meetings – minutes which apparently are eagerly awaited by certain parties unspecified.] Under Marc’s post “Partial Credit…
A couple years ago, I posted about the RI delegation’s rankings in the Congressional Power Rankings. Welp, I forgot about it last year, but this being an election year, why not see how the boys are doing?
… to stay in “close touch” with the people of Rhode Island and so I can hear directly from you about the issues that matter most to you and your family. August 19, 2008 6:00 PM – North Providence/Johnston/Smithfield Community Dinner Sheldon will host a community dinner on Tuesday, August 19 at the Salvatore Mancini…
When the people at my workplace first heard that Frank Corrente was seeking a partial pension for the time he served government whilst NOT breaking the law, the reaction was universal: HA! That went for young, old and middle; men and women; conservative and liberal. Wow, we all thought, that takes some brass ones. But…
When Cumberland Democrat Mayor Daniel McKee took the teachers’ union – the National Education Association – completely off guard by successfully championing legislation that would provide education choice and remove the burden of union control, the response was predictable: “They cheated!” On the Dan Yorke show, Bob Walsh, president of the NEA suggested that the…
Following upon Governor Carcieri’s press conference at 2:00, his office issued the following statement. Governor Donald L. Carcieri today issued an Executive Order authorizing that all employees represented by unions that have not ratified the co-share and plan design changes outlined in the Memorandum of Settlement shall enjoy the same health, vision, and dental plan…
Having grown up in “toll booth” states, I’m not particularly put out by the idea of Rhode Island putting up a few booths on the RI/CT line to make some money for the state (especially for infrastructure), as suggested by the ProJo editors. But two points–one a great big, red warning flag–they make are worth…
Let’s examine Council 94’s urgent insistance that the thirty meetings with Governor Carcieri do not constitute negotiations in the light of the status of those negotiations informal discussions at meeting ninteen. On May 23, Governor Carieri appeared on WPRO’s Dan Yorke Show: They have not put a single thing … after 19 meetings, hours, hundreds…
I caught State Treasurer Frank Caprio on Channel 10’s Newsmakers (video) this past Sunday. He sounded like a conservative fiscal thinker to me and trotted out some examples of the forward-thinking policies he’s enacted that have redounded well for the State of Rhode Island. He also described how he worked with the union to get…