RI FUTURE
Former Employer of Treasurer’s Chief of Staff Wins
This will probably get lost since it was passed the day before Thanksgiving. But it does not look right when Fidelity Investments who used to employ Joseph Pratt, Treasurer Raimondo’s Chief of Staff, is selected as the vendor for the Ocean State Investment Pool. The State Investment Commission, chaired by Treasurer Raimondo, named Fidelity the [...]
For the very first time since 2009, Social Security benefits to increase
Social Security benefits will go up by 3.6 percent in 2012 to adjust for the living costs. Social Security benefits have not increased since 2009. The increase is welcome news for retirees in this difficult economic climate. Many retirees, however, will see much of that boost devoured by increased Medicare premiums. Source of article: Social [...]
AT&T/T-Mobile Merger is about jobs. What’s wrong with that?
Last week, the pretend defenders of private sector unions on Fountain Street bought the line that the AT&T/T-Mobile merger was a bad idea. Typical double speak. Here is a good counter argument from the Communication Workers of America: If you repeat a made-up falsehood over and over again, will reasonable people start to believe it? [...]
Occupy Providence begins @ 5pm on Oct 15: Burnside Park
Date: Saturday, October 15th Event: Gathering/Rally & March Against Corporate Greed/Assembly/Occupation Time: 5pm to (indefinitely) On Saturday, October 15th, at 5pm, Rhode Islanders will gather together in Burnside Park (Downtown Providence) to express a feeling of mass injustice and stand in solidarity with those occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square. This will be done as [...]
Occupy: The Action is the Demand
THIS IS AN INDEPENDENT ESSAY! SEE DISCLAIMER BELOW! On Sunday across the US in various publications opinion-setting writers lamented (1) /attacked (2) the lack of a coherent set of demands from the Occupy Wall Street protesters. It seems like a reasonable thing, you know – protesters having their demands. Only, nothing couldn’t be further from [...]
State Representative Dan Gordon arrested by RI State Police
The esteemed (sic) Representative from the East Bay was arrested over the weekend on multiple charges. Included in these were driving with a suspended license and evading police. He had a warrant out for his arrest. We also learned that he has a violent crime history - shocking, right? WPRI and PROJO both had the scoop and [...]
Why you can’t simply can’t trust Education Reformers with the facts
Because they leave most of the real facts out: from today’s POLITIFACT: But the mayors’ statement leaves out an important fact: The DRA is a test that very few students take because it is given only in schools that don’t go above second grade. In all other elementary schools, the state uses the New England [...]
Labor Day Address
1934 was a tumultuous year for the Labor Movement in the United States, as the country continued to struggle its way out of the Great Depression. The Labor battles that raged in 1934 were preceded a year earlier with a sense of hope and promise for workers struggling for the necessities of survival against brutal [...]
Dan Gordon REMOVED from GOP Caucus by a majority vote
From Kathy Gregg @ Projo: “PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The tiny House Republican caucus has voted to “expel” one of its members: freshman Rep. Daniel P. Gordon Jr. of Portsmouth. House Minority Leader Brian Newberry confirmed Wednesday that 6 of the 10 House Republicans voted Tuesday afternoon to expel Gordon, at a caucus held at the [...]
Providence Journal Losing It’s Tax Cut Religion?
With all the Huricane Irene preperation going on, maybe you missed the monumental shift yesterday in editorial policy at the newspaper of record in Rhode Island. After years of supporting tax cuts for the elite and encouraging buidgetary policy coddling the CEO class in the hopes that they would through their good graces employ the [...]
Join Congressman Cicilline in telling Republican Leaders that Corporations Are NOT People
I know its been conservative philosophy for over a century that under the law corporations are people….but it never really made sense. And to hear Republican leaders like Mitt Romney say it out loud…well, they just need to be called on it. Congressman David Cicilline has an online petition going right now asking Republican leaders to get [...]
Six RI Legislators Join ALEC, a Pro-Corporate “Model” Legislation Advocate
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a consortium of corporations which drafts and approves “model” legislation for right-wing state legislators on virtually every area of law. As one example, reported by Mike Elk of The Nation, in today’s interview on DemocracyNow!: “One of the most perverse effects that ALEC has had on American society [...]
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