Rhode Island Politics

Although it’s wise to hesitate before giving too much weight to one exchange and one piece of writing, I’m very encouraged that my general approach to movement politics appears to have resonated with Randy Jackvony (pixellation victim): I asked another blogger, Justin Katz of www.anchorrising.com, what he thought about political discourse over the Internet. His…

Edward Achorn took his shot in yesterday’s Projo at explaining Governor’s Donald Carcieri’s major drop in approval rating, from 59% at the start of the year to 44% now, according to Brown University Professor Darrell West‘s latest polling… The Republican governor’s leadership, unfortunately, has been AWOL this year. He started off 2007 with an absurdly…

It may be that the education discussion needs a broader context, because there’s a substantial way in which Thomas’s argument is beside the point: As to the point I was actually raising, yes, it matters what pocket the money comes from. Andrew’s comment raises exactly this issue. My view is that basing education funding on…

A short while ago, I objected to Rhode Island Republican Party Chairman Gio Cicione’s red-meat throwing, and I think the Democrat status of Tiverton Town Councilman Hannibal Costa gives an example of the danger inherent in a party chairman’s drifting away from tempered party building. If the RIGOP could get its act together and come…

Representative Paul Crowley, D, Newport, has passed away after a battle with cancer. The Governor has ordered that the Rhode Island State flag be flown at half staff. ProJo has more (Matt does, too). : Veteran Newport lawmaker Paul W. Crowley, a champion for schoolchildren and the city where he was raised, died this morning…

The Providence Phoenix’s Ian Donnis previews an interview with Governor Carcieri over at N4N: Carcieri remained characteristically upbeat during a taping this morning of WPRI/WNAC TV’s Newsmakers, but his ability to deliver remains open to question. When I asked why Rhode Island has been relegated to playing defense on the casino issue, the governor answered…

The headline says “Laffey agrees to pay FEC $25,000 fine“, the details indicate something less nefarious than implied: …the FEC, in a Sept. 6 conciliation agreement made public yesterday, said it had “found reason to believe” that Laffey’s Senate campaign committee and his treasurer, Richard J. Sullivan, violated federal campaign law by “failing to identify…