Sam Howard misses the point of questions about who the RIGOP is and who is to blame for both its trouble’s and the state’s.
The question of blame for Rhode Island’s political culture requires an accurate view of how politics (and media) operates in the state. It’s not sports or business competition; it’s life.
How would the removal of competitive bidding for state projects benefit the state?
The national scandals facing the Obama administration arguably point to the underlying causes of Rhode Island’s economic troubles.
Revelations about this deeply disturbing nastiness came fast and furious this week so it would have been easy to have missed some items.
38 Questions to head off another potential 38 Studios (a.k.a., the Superman Building)
Governor Chafee rewards with a judgeship the man who laid the vital groundwork for gutting ethics in RI government and who paid the third highest ethics fine in Rhode Island history.
Charting the fifty states’ distance from their peak employment along with the party controlling the legislature shows some interesting results, not the least of which is the ability of other states to change their courses.
Taxpayers in the regional Chariho school district scored a substantial victory in getting the district to reduce its 2014 budget request to a zero percent increase, but in the long run, all such victories will be minor unless the victories start including elections for public office.
A sudden end to Sovereign Bank’s relationship with Bullseye Shooting Supplies in Woonsocket may be part of a politically motivated national push to make the sale of firearms more difficult.
Video (and one-paragraph summary) of Justin’s appearance on WPRI 12’s Newsmakers show about same-sex marriage.
State Representative Lisa Baldelli-Hunt announces her candidacy for mayor of Woonsocket against incumbent Leo Fontaine and Green party member David Fisher.
A letter in today’s Providence Journal suggests that I’m equating government employees with the people who receive direct government handouts. That’s mistaken; they’re different (if overlapping) groups.
Nursing assistants under a particular job title at government-run Eleanor Slater Hospital are taking home up to nearly $115,000 per year, with overtime and other enhanced pay.
Justin responds to a Providence Journal article that he finds indistinguishable from what an official government communications team might have produced.
Answering confusion about the import of RIGOP chairman candidate Dan Harrop’s withdrawal from the race, a GOP insider explains the options that were on the table for his supporters.
After a strange and contentious week, RIGOP chairman candidate Dan Harrop has withdrawn from the contested race, clearing the way for Mark Smiley to begin his tenure in that role.
An article not about what it’s about; sequester demagoguery; softening kids for “effort shock”; and the rise of grassroots fascism.
The American Spectator is introducing Chafee to its readers, but Rhode Islanders are all too familiar with his brand of independence.
Congressman Cicilline’s hiring of a laid-off Providence Journal employee raises questions about the media’s role in civics.
Justin writes live from a five-hour, four-panel economic conference put on by the RI House of Representatives.
Perspective from on high; the empathetic view from my soap box; cover-up as economic development; what happens when that which can’t go on forever doesn’t.
A joint interview with RI’s three most powerful politicians highlights the error in their shared vision.
Explaining Rhode Island’s decline in four brief sections: legal process, the economy, the media, and fashionable graft.
RI resident and PA Secretary of Public Welfare Gary Alexander has come under media scrutiny in both states for using a state vehicle to travel between them. Less-reported information gives context to the issue and to the compensation of government officials generally.
Two narratives on the economy; a health exchange story the media is missing; government as pretend leader; powerful teachers’ unions (plus Ted Nesi’s Rolodex)
What subsidizes green?; what the unions want the pension law to say; First Family Holiday Fame; America, the Special.
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.
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.