Rhode Island Politics
As an early-grave-working father of three children, whom my wife and I deliberately brought into the world at a relatively young age ourselves (by modern standards), with nowhere near the income nor savings that an accountant might require to balance out the cost of progeny, I find myself strangely split in my agreement with both…
Frank Ferri: 878 Jonathan Wheeler: 553 Carlo Pisaturo: 228 With all four precincts in Warwick’s District 22 reporting but before the opening of approximately 25 mail-in ballots. Story about today’s election – before the polls closed – in the Warwick Beacon. Thanks to Will Ricci for calling me with the results.
Charles Bakst presents a question that he thinks the governor ought to ask himself, and although my way of answering it mightn’t be what Bakst expects, I think it’s a worthy consideration: I said Carcieri would say he wasn’t calling them bad people, only that they’d made bad decisions. [URI Feinstein hunger center director Kathleen…
The ProJo’s Edward Achorn takes notice of the ongoing Warwick Crossing Guard debate and thinks he detects a sea change: [H]ere’s some good news for Rhode Island: A slumbering giant, the great silent majority, may be awakening at long last to the crisis this state is facing. The evidence? Last week, the Warwick City Council…
This Tuesday, there will be a special election in House District 22 (Warwick) to fill the seat of former state Representative Peter Ginaitt, who resigned at the end of the 2007 session. Running as a Republican in the race is Jonathan Wheeler. Mr. Wheeler has juxtaposed at his campaign website a set of numbers he…
Here’s the January calendar for the Presidential nomination process, which finally seems to have settled, from CBS News…The Iowa caucuses will start the nominating process on January 3.Wyoming GOP county caucuses follow on January 5……followed by New Hampshire on January 8……and Michigan on January 15.South Carolina Republicans and Nevada will vote on January 19South Carolina…
In a relatively short op-ed, Republican state office holders Nicholas Gorham (Coventry) and Laurence Ehrhardt (North Kingstown) make it clear to anybody who reads the paper how dire is the need to vote a large segment of our current slate of legislators right out of office: On Oct. 10, the Tax Foundation ranked Rhode Island…
No, not a statewide version of that Phoenix, but a state that rises from the ashes, born anew. That’s essentially what the ProJo has editorialized about this morning. Rhode Island can use this crisis to reinvent itself, operating more efficiently and more realistically in a competitive world, making changes that would benefit its citizens for…
The Warwick City Council unanimously rejected a couple contract options for the city’s crossing guards last night. I guess it’s sinking in. Calling it a bad deal for taxpayers, the City Council last night unanimously rejected not one but two proposed contracts with the municipal crossing guards union, leaving the future of the city-run program…
Last week, in light of our half-a-billion dollar budget deficit, I linked to a piece by William Voegeli in which he explained that conservatives, while they can accept the necessity of a welfare state, must continue to try to apply the throttle to the always-growing amount of money we spend on government social welfare programs.…