Rhode Island Politics
Last year, I referred to legislation to ban surcharges on gift certificates as going “the extra totalitarian mile,” and the intrepid Senator Chris Maselli (D, Johnston) has put on his cross-country jackboots again this year: When Rhode Island enacted legislation a few years ago prohibiting all gift cards and certificates sold in the state from…
I don’t suspect that it will take long for Anchor Rising readers to figure out what group isn’t represented on the following list of folks on House Speaker Bill Murphy’s pension study group: According to the speaker’s office, the panel, when fully assembled, will include: Representatives Nicholas A. Mattiello, D-Cranston; Gregory J. Schadone, D-North Providence;…
[Some images from the Super-Tuesday results party hosted by the Haldeman campaign.] RI House Minority Leader Robert Watson and House candidate James Haldeman Former Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey and candidate Haldeman. RI Rep. John Loughlin (right) looks on as Leader Watson is interviewed by RIReport’s Tom Shevlin.
Jim Haldeman, Marine Corps Veteran, Iraq War Veteran, American Airlines Pilot, former PTA President, husband, and father, will again run as a Republican for State Representative in Rhode Island’s 35th district for the seat currently held by Democrat John Patrick Shanley. Having seen Rhode Island politics up close in his first campaign, Jim is a…
As part of a short address to the crowd gathered at last night’s Super-Tuesday party in South Kingstown, former Cranson Mayor Steve Laffey offered this synopsis of how Rhode Island’s now-annual fiscal crises have come into being…There aren’t a handful of Democrats in the legislature that you would trust to hold on to $50 for…
Last evening, at a Super-Tuesday results party hosted by State Representative candidate Jim Haldeman, I had the opportunity to ask current State Representative John Loughlin (R – Little Compton/Portsmouth/Tiverton) about the future of Rhode Island’s looming $450-$600 million dollar budget deficit… Anchor Rising: Everyone knows what the number one question up on Smith Hill is…
In addition to that other thing going on around the country, there are two good government events happening here in Rhode Island on Tuesday. The first, on the subject of illegal immigration, is a hearing at the State House for House Bill 7107, which would require Rhode Island employers to verify on line that new…
It’s a minor thing, almost not worth mentioning, but pixels are cheap, and it won’t take but a moment to correct Crowley’s pitiful attempt to find contradiction where there is none. Jim Baron, of the Pawtucket Times paraphrased Jeff Neal, spokesman for Governor Carcieri, as follows: Neal deemed the claim that 90 percent of Rhode…
To be honest, I’m reluctant to delve too deeply into the governor’s proposed budget for next year; it’s not as if the General Assembly is likely to let much of it stand. Still, the Providence Journal’s report thereon strolls past an interesting lesson in government revenue: Those with good driving records would have to pay…
Unsurprisingly, state Representative Charlene Lima (D, Cranston) has become the next legislator through the door with a tax increase bill, and it appears to feature some of the same measures and reasoning as the Economic Death and Dismemberment Act. It’s as if they intend to flood the legislature with slightly variegated bills so that one…