Rhode Island Politics
The Valley Breeze – exclusively, it appears – broke this on their website today. PAWTUCKET – Owners of the TK Club are saying they’ve rejected a bid by a group of city politicians and businesspeople to purchase the building for a marijuana distribution center. Instead they’ve unofficially accepted a separate bid from a buyer who…
GoLocalProv reported on the 180; h/t Justin. [Newly appointed Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Peter] Palumbo [D, Cranston] said he has just started poring through all the rules, but he already has some ideas about what he would like to see changed. For one, he’d like to tweak a rule that allows a state rep to…
In contrast to the promise of more open government in the Republican-controlled U.S. House that I noted earlier, this head-turner came via GoLocalProv today: [Newly appointed Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Peter] Palumbo [D, Cranston] said he has just started poring through all the rules, but he already has some ideas about what he would like…
I’m beginning to worry about what the Chafee administration and its puppeteers might be trying to distract Rhode Islanders from with his assault on talk radio. As you’ve likely heard, yesterday RI Governor Lincoln Chafee called on advertisers to boycott talk radio. Apart from the petty activism indicated by his lambasting of an entire information…
Awesome editorial by Arlene Violet in today’s Valley Breeze about Gov Chafee rescinding the Executive Order on illegal immigration. Despite anticipatory breast-beating to the contrary by advocates of illegal immigration, Arlene points out that there was not one instance of abuse of the Order in the two years that it was in place. She also…
Back in 2007, I argued against non-partisan elections in Tiverton. Those who disagreed took a very community-oriented view: ARGUING AGAINST asking Tiverton voters whether they’d like to return to partisan elections after one cycle of nonpartisanism, Charter Review Commission member Frank “Richard” Joslin made two points that have the ring of Rhode Islandry: First, that…
Further to my point about a new political wave starting local, the landscape of Rhode Island politics stands as a stark example and testing ground: … while the state has been trying to work through the desperate finances of its smallest city [Central Falls], it has also been working with three other economically distressed communities…
Look, Pat Crowley of the National Education Association Rhode Island is a paid union hack. One knows what his conclusions will be simply by looking at his job title. He allows no illusion that he will say anything other than what he thinks will benefit his employer, whether true or not. If read at all,…
On the front page of this morning’s Woonsocket Call. The first headline: Lincoln Chafee Sworn In The second headline: Vultures Descend on City The second story is about a flock of actual, avian vultures which has recently made Woonsocket home. It was hard, though, not to link it back to the first headline and what’s…
The latest Side of the Rhode hot/not list tipped me to something that nearly slipped by me: Well-known attorney Matthew Jerzyk will serve as Mayor-elect Angel Taveras’ director of government relations and senior counsel to the mayor. … Jerzyk will coordinate the city’s legislative agenda with the City Council, state and federal government. He is…