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EDC: Play Small Ball Rather Than Swinging For Fence

By Bob Plain on March 8, 2013

Memo to the brave souls willing to join (or stay with!) the EDC Board: please consider playing some small ball before you start swinging for the fences. There’s no way you could have stopped MetLife from moving 243 jobs out of Warwick short of repeating what your boss just called a “historically poor decision.” North [...]

Posted in Economy, Featured | Tagged EDC, metlife, north carolina, Rhode Island | 2 Responses

North Carolina Votes for Marriage Inequality

North Carolina Votes for Marriage Inequality

By Samuel G. Howard on May 9, 2012

So Amendment One in North Carolina passed via voter referendum, and it passed overwhelmingly. Simply put, Amendment One criminalizes love. Not only does it add a ban on the rights of homosexuals to marry (already illegal in North Carolina) to their state constitution, it bans the existence of civil unions between even straight couples. It passed [...]

Posted in LGBT, National News | Tagged amendment one, Marriage Equality, north carolina | 3 Responses

RI Progress Report: URI Profs File Suit, West Warwick, Tar Heels on Marriage Equality, Doherty and US Chamber

RI Progress Report: URI Profs File Suit, West Warwick, Tar Heels on Marriage Equality, Doherty and US Chamber

By Bob Plain on May 9, 2012

URI professors have filed a lawsuit against the state saying the Board of Governors for Higher Education broke the law when they declined to ratify a contract they had already agreed to after Gov. Chafee weighed in on the matter. Profs may win in court, but in order to win in the court of public [...]

Posted in RI Progress Report | Tagged jon brien, Marriage Equality, north carolina, Rhode Island, richard lugar, richard mourdock, Ted Nesi, university of rhode island, URI, west warwick, Woonsocket | Leave a response

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