DePetro, Carcieri, Healey at Odeum: Two thumbs down
Yesterday I thought it would be hard to put together a group of people who have been worse for Rhode Island than John DePetro, Don Carcieri and Bernie Healey. But Anthony Gemma proved me wildly off base by showing up as well. If you missed my live-tweeting of conservative Catholic night at the Odeum Theater [...]
On Stage Together: Carcieri, DePetro, Healey
What do former Governor Don Carcieri, Rev. Bernard Healey and John DePetro all have in common? The three biggest enemies of civil liberties in Rhode Island? Three people only popular on WPRO? Three people who progressives wish kept to themselves? Even more precisely, these three pillars of Ocean State conservatism will be appearing together, on [...]
Gist On Public Education Disparity In Rhode Island
I went to an East Greenwich school this morning to interview state Education Commissioner Deborah Gist about the education disparity between the affluent suburbs in Rhode Island and the poorer inner cities. While I was waiting for her a 7th grade student came into the office to report finding a diamond. This pretty much sums [...]
Why Leaving RI To Save Tax Dollars Is A Bad Investment
Anyone who leaves Rhode Island for a better life, god bless. Anyone who leaves to save money, good riddance. And to anyone who would confuse the two, get real. As the progressive left in the Ocean State calls on the General Assembly to reverse the Carcieri-era tax breaks for the rich, the best defense the [...]
Bald Eagle, Hawks Over a Frozen Greenwich Cove
One of the things I love most about these sustained deep freezes is my neighbor Jeff Stevens and I have a tradition of going for a walk across Greenwich Cove when the ice permits. The Cove – the EG Riviera, as locals sometimes call it because of the confluence of working waterfront, high end bars [...]
In EG, DePetro, RI Future’s Hometown, It’s a Holiday Tree
The decorated tree in front of East Greenwich Town Hall, like the one on the State House rotunda, is called a holiday tree, reports East Greenwich Patch. “Was this a Christmas Tree lighting?” wrote editor Elizabeth McNamara. “Not according to the notation on the town’s calendar, which referred to a ‘holiday tree lighting.’” Ironically enough, [...]
Progress Report: Rent, Wages and Econ 101; Community Foreclosure Study, EG Ordinance Violates 1st Amendment
You don’t need to a degree in economics to understand why rent is skyrocketing while wages are stagnant. As the middle class is squeezed, fewer can afford the American dream of home ownership. So they rent instead. Demand then has its way with supply and the landlords win while the working class loses. Yet another [...]
EG Church Kicks Out Cub Scouts For Discrimination
An Episcopal church in East Greenwich told a local Cub Scout group it can’t use its facilities to meet because it doesn’t agree with the Boy Scouts of America decision to discriminate against gay people, according to East Greenwich Patch. Tim Rich, the priest at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, told EG Patch that the decision [...]
Taveras Impresses Even Conservative EG Rotary
At first blush one might guess the East Greenwich Rotary Club wouldn’t be the easiest audience for a progressive mayor of Providence to impress. But this, remember, is Angel Taveras, and I’ve honestly never known a politician with such a gift to win over various constituencies and to influence positive outcomes. Angel inherited a cash-strapped [...]
EG Wants iPads, CF Wants Enough Textbooks
It’s another sign of the increasing education disparity between Rhode Island’s affluent suburban towns and its economically challenged inner cities: the East Greenwich School Committee is considering getting every student at the high school an iPad, while in Central Falls, Pawtucket and Woonsocket students sometimes share textbooks, taking turns getting to take them home for [...]
RI Progress Report: Who Still Supports Carcieri?
Former Gov. Don Carcieri seems to have lost all his political allies because of his historic blunder in giving his friend and political ally curt Schilling $75 million to make a video game in Rhode Island. It will be interesting to see if Brendan Doherty and Mitt Romney – the two candidates Carcieri is really [...]
RI Progress Report: Education Disparity, Homeless Bill of Rights, Brendan Doherty, Citizens United, the Ocean Mist
What you’ll notice when you look at GoLocal’s annual list of best high schools is the ones at the top of the list are in affluent towns and the ones near the bottom are in poorer urban areas. It’s that simple: we have a tiered education system in this state. Rich kids, and those lucky [...]
RI Progress Report: Austerity, URI Contracts, Police Unions
The Board of Governors for Higher Education meet tonight to decide whether or not to give raises to URI professors, and two other faculty unions, as tuition continues to skyrocket for students. The meeting is at 5:30 tonight, at CCRI’s Warwick campus, and according to the Projo, the professor’s union plans to bus faculty to [...]
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