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This East Greenwich Fire District news article highlights the latest actions of a group that has a historical tendency to increase spending at a far faster rate than the incomes of East Greenwich taxpayers: The Board of Fire Commissioners will seek voter approval to begin the process of constructing and staffing a new fire station…
To give credit where it is due, I note that Warwick Democrat Al Gemma has taken a principled stand against the “organizing” of Home Day Care providers. From the ProJo: House leaders succeeded in passing a bill last night that would force the state to negotiate with home-based child-care providers over the terms of their…
Andrew writes about Liberalism’s Dilemma at Tech Central Station.
I am hosting History Carnival #10 at Spinning Clio this week. The History Carnival is a bi-weekly roundup of blog posts that deal with history with the goal of giving the general public an idea of what historians and others are thinking about history and how they are applying it to contemporary matters. There is…
Here is the link to an interview on National Public Radio with Rhode Island Governor Don Carcieri where he talks about pressing state issues, including public pensions.
Articles here and here have raised fresh questions about U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s behavior in the oil-for-food program controversy. The first article notes: Investigators of the U.N. oil-for-food program said Tuesday they are “urgently reviewing” new information that suggests U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan may have known more than he revealed about a contract that was…
We are at war. We are a land of liberty. We have a federal government whose appetite for meddling seems to be growing. Two recent news articles have raised questions about the extension of the Patriot Act: Patriot Act Push Angers Some on Right: A Senate panel vote riles conservatives concerned about the reach of…
An earlier posting entitled Outrageous Employee Compensation Liabilities Continue to Haunt General Motors; Will American Taxpayers End Up Paying the Bill? highlighted pension and healthcare cost issues that have made American auto makers like General Motors cost the high cost producer in a competitive global marketplace. These points and the structural problems that sustain them…
ScrappleFace does it like no one else. Sometimes, in the heat of the moment, we forget to do what ScrappleFace does – poke fun at political actors. Here are two great recent examples: GOP Senators Shocked: Judge Brown is Black: Republican Senators, who yesterday confirmed President Bush’s appointment of Judge Janice Rogers Brown to the…
I was at the Gaspee Days parade over the weekend and was canvassed by a representative of Operation Clean Government who was looking for signatures supporting a Voter Initiative referendum question this November. I signed it, with some trepidation, but the proximate situation of the current state of Rhode Island politics won out over my…