Objections to the proposal to eliminate RI’s sales tax share the common trait of prioritizing government spending and ruling-class decision making.
Government’s corrupt pension handling; the discount rate scam; fighting off the zoning inspector; government peeking doesn’t count as privacy invasion.
Explaining Rhode Island’s decline in four brief sections: legal process, the economy, the media, and fashionable graft.
Evading the progressive ideology snatchers; under surveillance; the not-employed young; and growing up, one way or another.
With public sector salaries and benefits continuing to expand at the expense of Rhode Island’s beleaguered taxpayers and business owners, some policy analysts see a historical parallel with the waning days of the Roman Empire. State and local government workers receive a 26.5 percent premium above their private sector counterparts, according to a new study.
Justin liveblogs from the public hearing on the proposed Sakonnet River Bridge toll at Tiverton High School.
Contrary to what was alleged in a complaint filed with Attorney General Peter Kilmartin, the East Bay Energy Consortium (EBEC) has pursued a proposed wind power project in a fiscally responsible, open, and transparent manner, according to some of the government figures named in the complaint.
RI taxpayers could be on the hook for a costly, unworkable wind power project that lacks and discernible environmental benefits if the East Bay Energy Consortium and its partners in government are permitted to overstep legal boundaries, a complaint with the attorney general claims.
Taft-Carter takes the Iannazzi mantle; RI back to pre-democracy; the ascendance of unaccountable bureaucracies; and America gone mad (with the Big Blue Bug)
Historic tax credits have a broader effect than is immediately obvious, ultimately harming hard-working Rhode Islanders.
If lawmakers in other states had modeled their efforts after those of Rhode Island’s, their laws may have been less susceptible to legal challenges from the ACLU and the NAACP. Sen. Harold Metts, the Providence Democrat who sponsored this state’s voter ID law, points out that voter fraud also leads to disenfranchisement.
Campaign finance serving incumbents; too common common political wisdom, locally; not hating the opposition; fearing the “common core.”
Campaign finance & incumbents; where the buck stops for the bad economy; Obama follows Chafee on a Commerce Czar; and the storm should be a warning.
The calm before the storm provides opportunity to consider the effect of legislation on behavior during and after an emergency, as well as the priorities of the people who create laws.
A brief analysis of the referenda questions that will appear on this November’s ballot in RI suggests that the state would be better off reordering its priorities, rather than expanding debt and doubling down on casinos.
The RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity held a press conference, Thursday, to draw attention to an alternative approach to turning around the state’s economy, titled, “Get Government Out of the Way.”
Rhode Island has received national attention to implementing pension reforms that address unfunded liabilities. But the action has not been matched at the local level where retirement plans are set to implode
A national report card from the Cato Institute gives RI Governor Lincoln Chafee a D.
Another round is looming in the dispute between members of the RI General Assembly and the attorney general over in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.
Tiverton STOP-the-tolls meeting showed the battle as community spirit versus regional politics, with locals misunderstanding the operation of the Rhode Island system of government.
The RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity’s General Assembly Freedom Index shifts the good-government-advocate spotlight, with some results that run across the grain of public perception.
Mitt Romney has found himself under fire for referencing the number of Americans who he says are dependent on government. Rhode Island’s health benefits exchange is arguably a pathway toward even larger dependency.
Voter ID sponsor Sen. Harold Metts is not surprised by fraud allegations, but says such acts can happen without candidates’ knowledge.
The topics of hope and hopelessness pervaded this weekend’s readings, from absurd labor rules in schools, to the likely outcome of Make It Happen, to Spencer Dickinson’s insider view, and then to Sandra Fluke.
By resisting the health care exchange system included as part of the new federal health care law, Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey has put himself in a stronger position to safeguard taxpayer interests, according to key figures in the state’s delegation to the National Convention in Tampa, FL.
Forbes columnist Louis Woodhill praises GOP congressional candidate Michael Riley for emphasizing “pro-growth” policies during event in East Greenwich. Woodhill also compares current economic conditions with the Great Depression of the 1930s and identifies Nixon as the “worst president” of modern times.
The origination of Rhode Island’s health benefits exchange raises questions about the health of the state’s democratic system.
Responding to disagreement, Justin expounds on the problem with “dependency portals.”
Compartmentalizing society, with business tasked with maximizing profit and government tasked with picking up the pieces, is another example of how big finance is distorting both the economy and the government, in Justin’s view.
The Current collects the legislative votes in favor of and opposed to the budget article allowing tolls on the Sakonnet River Bridge.