Essay
In June, the North Kingstown School Committee voted to privatize the union jobs of 26 custodians. Twenty of the twenty-six were re-hired by the private company–GCA–that was brought in to take over. The committee voted to award a bid to GCA to privatize the district’s custodial department and will plan to award the contract at…
Extending, even out of office, his repugnant legacy of coming to the aid of Rhode Island’s political bad guys, no matter the crime or infraction, former RI Attorney General Patrick Lynch helpfully tweeted the following this morning at 7:22 am (re-tweeted by the spokesperson of the current Attorney General). Rhode Island legal trivia: There is…
Has anyone else been paying attention to the job that Dan McGowan has been doing with his coverage on the Providence Economic Development Partnership (PEDP) for GoLocalProv? It seems just about every other day, he has some other important piece to the whole puzzle and further explaining the fund and how it has been used…
In the first release of the WPRI primary poll results, David Cicilline has opened a wider gap on Anthony Gemma. Where Cicilline previously let by just four points, he’s now up by twelve. It’s also interesting to see that Chris Young garnered 4% of the preferences. Before you go shaking your head and wondering why…
At least that’s what today’s GoLocalProv.com article is conveying. How can this be? He’s been out of the Mayor’s Office for two years now! This must be Taveras’s fault! Patrick, you’re just piling on and making this stuff up! See for yourself: The police union blames the situation on former police Chief Dean Esserman and…
The RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity has been collecting reasons not to pursue a “dependency portal” unified infrastructure, marketing all government services through the health benefits exchange currently in the design phase. But there are plenty of reasons to resist the exchange and the related expansion of Medicaid eligibility without regard to the cutting…
GoLocalProv’s Dan Lawlor has a column today in which he attempts to causatively link Rhode Island’s top income tax rate to our unemployment rate. In 1997, during a boom economy in RI- remember the Renaissance? – the top income earners had a 27.5% income tax rate. Our jobless rate was 5.3%. Ah, but then, in…
Defending the No Child Left Behind Act, on the Hoover Institution’s online Uncommon Knowledge show with Peter Robinson, President George W. Bush argued that parents need to be able to see measurements of their school districts’ achievements in order to hold them accountable. The point is well taken, but there are reasons conservatives at the time…
The video obtained by the Projo of Erasmo Ramirez offering to sell mail-in ballots filled out for Anthony Gemma may not be direct evidence of voter fraud, given what voter fraud is commonly understood to mean. Consider the following: On the surveillance video, Robert Cappuccilli (the potential vote buyer) reads names and addresses off of…
Yes, it’s true, it appears that Anthony Gemma missed his intended target at his press conference on Wednesday. No evidence was presented that David Cicilline himself participated in carrying out voter fraud (though there is also no doubt that it was his election bid that would have benefited from these alleged efforts). But in the…