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630AM/99.7FM WPRO has posted my appearance on the Dan Yorke show, Tuesday, in two segments. The first is the initial half hour introducing the research from the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity and touching on some conclusions. For the second hour, Economic Development Corp. board member and VIBCO President Karl Wadensten joined us in…
“David (Cicilline) strongly opposes the Citizens United decision and has cosponsored the House version of the DISCLOSE Act,” But yet when the Doherty camp calls on him to return all PAC money, after Cicilline chided Doherty for taking PAC money, Cicilline refuses. Ted Nesi wrote the article yesterday about the latest skirmish in the First…
While watching the 11 pm news tonight on Channel 10, I saw a story about the 67 former employees of the Department of Labor and Training (DLT) protesting their layoff. I get it, layoffs are bad, I wish everyone who wants a job could be employed. I also get what they’re saying about the irony…
When he was about to share a particularly outrageous or egregious item, Glenn Beck used to admonish his listeners to wrap their heads in duct tape so that clean up would be easier when their heads exploded upon hearing the item. The Valley Breeze’s Sandy Phaneuf should have provided a similar preface to her just…
Yes, this is a US Senator from Massachusetts, but I don’t think anyone could explain it better. In case you haven’t seen this statement from Scott Brown yet, it’s moving.
In a strong indication that, among journalistic practitioners, the biased media narrative is more a matter of intellectual laziness than cultural duplicity, the latest canned story, by Los Angeles Times reporter Don Lee, is that workplace discrimination is landing men the great majority of “newly created” jobs: Since the recession ended in June 2009, men…
Here’s President Obama, speaking in Roanoke, Virginia, on Friday, July 13: I’m always struck by people who think, “Well, it must be because I was just so smart.” There are a lot of smart people out there! “It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.” Let me tell you something: There are a…
When you’re budgeting for a school department, there are a lot of moving pieces. Of course you wish you had money to fund everything really well, but that’s not the case. Choices need to be made and sometimes cuts are necessary. But where those cuts should come from is often the topic for debate. We’ve…
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WPRI uncovered a 2009 speech made by Republican Senate Candidate Barry Hinckley in which he told the audience that running for political office will also garner “tons of free PR” for your business. In reaction, Tony Simon, the campaign manager for Hinckley’s opponent, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse sought to make a distinction between his boss and…