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Citing an inability to fulfill customer orders or sell product at their retail stores and a lack of money to wait out a prolonged strike, Hostess announced Friday that it will return to bankruptcy court to request liquidation. It’s difficult not to see some resemblance to the denouement of the Brown and Sharpe strike right…
Two Americas? The idea is nothing new. We learn that almost 23% of Americans are open to the idea of seceding given the recent election results. And we’ve heard reports that 37 Chicago precincts, 59 Philadelphia precincts and multiple others in urban areas gave President Obama 99% support–some with 0 votes for Romney.* Mark Hendrickson…
Dan McGowan of GoLocalProv has a short round-up of the background and momentum that will be leading into a 2013 Rhode Island General Assembly debate on legalizing non-medical use of marijuana; the article mentions that House Judiciary Chairwoman Edith Ajello thinks there is support in the GA not just for “decriminalization” but for full “legalization”…
Monique reports that Mark Zaccaria announced at tonight’s state Republican Party meeting that he will not seek another term as party chair.
National Review Online‘s Ramesh Ponnuru does not believe that Mitt Romney’s problem was that his economic message was drowned out by social issues; he argues the Republican economic message heard by voters lacks broad appeal…Romney was not a drag on the Republican party. The Republican party was a drag on him… The Republican story about…
I don’t agree with everything in this Robert Oscar Lopez election post-mortem from the American Thinker, but it’s definitely a more interesting read than anything telling Republicans that electoral success is only attainable if they limit their message to promising thrifty and honest management of government designed by Democrats…By now it’s widely understood that all…
I’m just amplifying Tim White’s latest WPRI report on the use, and possibly, abuse of state-owned vehicles for top politicians, titled “Taxpayer Taxi.” My immediate reaction is probably the same as everyone else’s, why the heck do they have state-owned and even chauffeured cars? Seriously? Here are all the people who we are paying to…
I know I’m not alone in taking stock in the aftermath of last Tuesday and I do so realizing that there is an important contrast between conservatism and Republicanism. The national and local GOP continues to navel gaze as to how to make itself more appealing and marketable. In the mean time, conservatives should be…
Election season and other contingencies led me to miss the single-family home sales data for September, but compared with August, Rhode Island’s real estate market appeared to near or perhaps finally to reach the bottom in October. For the state as a whole, median sales prices were lower in the last 12 months than in…
Rhode Island’s real Economic Development Corporation, a.k.a., the Rhode Island General Assembly, goes back into session in less than two months. Recently, newly Elected Speaker Gordon Fox pointed to one of his top priorities for the session. So let’s frame this latest ranking, brought to our attention by GoLocalProv, Providence ranks 94th among all U.S.…