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Gallup‘s 7-day tracking polls now include only the time period after last week’s Vice-Presidential debate (October 12th to October 18th). According to their likely voter results, Mitt Romney has a 51-45 lead over Barack Obama, up from the 48-47 lead that Romney held in the results that ended with the day before the debate. Romney’s…
How many times have we heard our incumbent legislators tell us that they had no idea the $75 million addition to the EDC was for 38 Studios? Many times. Even Senator Daniel DaPonte, the Senate Finance Chairman, claimed during his Newsmakers debate that this was done “above my pay grade.” In the first hour on…
Apparently I’m paying for the Burrillville-Glocester Youth Soccer Association. Excellent, can my child play there? Or how about the Elmwood Little League, where do I sign up? There’s also the History Warren Armory, I’ve helped pay for that. Maybe I’ll stop by the Richmond Community Center for some afternoon activities. And when I’m sick, I’ll…
In today’s GoLocalProv, RISC’s Harriet Lloyd concurs with the reservations of Common Cause’s John Marion about an election loophole exploited by Capitol TV, resulting in the taxpayer funded promotion of incumbent legislators – strangely, all Democrat ones. Just last week, Capitol TV ran “interviews” in which the legislature’s $70,687-ayear inhouse TV host, Dave Barber, gave…
According to a press release from the RI Department of Labor and Training — the last to report this data before the election — Rhode Island’s unemployment rate dropped to 10.5% in September, its lowest level since April 2009. The change was on the strength of the state’s ” largest monthly increase of employed RI residents since…
RI Public Radio reporter Ian Donnis‘ recap of the last night’s Gordon Fox/Mark Binder debate includes this gem of Rhode Island fiscal insanity…6. [House Speaker Gordon Fox], in the first time that I heard him mention it, raised the possibility of using the state income tax to reduce the high burden of property taxes. He…
Today, RI House Speaker Gordon Fox put out a letter to members of his district. Andrew has already asked one question about it. If there is no political hay to be made about the 38 Studios debacle, then what is fair to talk about? Specifically, Speaker Fox wrote: It is disappointing that there are people…
Rhode Island Speaker of the House Gordon Fox (D-Providence) has sent a letter to his constituents, available from the Providence Journal, that includes this amusing concept…It is disappointing that there are people who want to use the 38 Studios issue as a political weapon as opposed to learning from our mistakes and focusing on how…
Andrew Kaczynski reminds us of the promises, promises then-Senator Obama made in the ’08 town hall debate (video at the link): On Budget: “I’m cutting more than I’m spending.” On Budget: I want to go through the budget line by line, eliminate programs that don’t work, and make programs that do work cost less. On…
It’s hardly original to suggest that the real detriment of our era of political correctness isn’t so much the specifics to which we’re asked to conform, but the habits of thought that the overly sensitive ear engenders. That’s actually a detriment with two parts. First, it makes discussion a power play. Even in the long-gone…