Rhode Island Politics
Well, I’m not even considering running for office, but quite a few other people are right now. I’m also guessing that many of them have their mind made up as to what seat to try to win. Some will decide to run for a seat in the General Assembly as they’re either tired of the…
NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 The second question in our Readers Poll deals with favorite Political Roundtable Show* (TV & Radio). The requirements for being put on this list were: 1) Had to be a show based in Rhode Island (so no Boston-based shows); 2) Had to focus primarily on news and political analysis with…
NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 This is the first in a series of polls that I’m putting together this week to find out who our readers turn to for their news and political analysis in the Mainstream Media (that means no bloggers or website-based organizations
Ted Nesi posted an interesting graphic from the Tax Foundation that shows that: Rhode Island posted the 18th-fastest growth in high-income taxpayers between 1999 and 2009. While the total number of Rhode Island taxpayers grew by just 4% during that period, the number with adjusted gross incomes above $200,000 jumped 63%, for a net gain…
Curt Schilling’s interview with the ProJo is a must read because it provides insight from another angle into the 38 Studios mess. Thus far, to paraphrase what seems to be the current Rhody Conventional Wisdom, Schilling (along with “Caaarcheeeri”) made a backroom deal to fleece the state of millions and both have pocketed the dough…
First of all, I agree with the leap-off point of Travis Rowley’s column this week: vilification of Kurt Schilling is completely misdirected. Responsibility for the 38 Studios mess – “mess” as in, who is to blame that taxpayers will probably end up paying $90-100 million hard earned dollars with nothing to show for it –…
A fascinating and eye-opening article by Mike Stanton in yesterday’s Providence Journal describes how, to paraphrase Stanton, the state jumped into the game business. We learn, for example, that the decision to provide 38 Studios with a $75 million loan guarantee from the taxpayers of the state was definitely a joint one reached by then-Governor…
… though not because the Schilling deal, facilitated by the Economic Development Corp, might leave taxpayers on the hook for upwards of $100 million. By almost any measure, Rhode Island has a very poor business climate. High taxes, too many fees, too many regulations, many of which were intended to protect consumers but, in reality,…
John Depetro alluded to it earlier today. But it looks like WJAR/NBC10/Turn to 10’s Bill Rappleye got what can only be viewed as a confirming quote from Governor Chafee. State officials have been meeting with the video game company owned by former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, Gov. Lincoln Chafee told NBC 10 on…
This past Friday, Justin wrote a piece for The Current about Rhode Island’s business-unfriendliness (worst in the nation). Not that causation=correlation or anything, ahem, but he ended the piece with this bit: The page for Rhode Island also presents data and rankings based on the U.S. Census. Notably, the state had the second worst debt…