Three Local Authors, RI Futurists Present At Netroots
Three Rhode Island progressive authors will “battle it out” at Netroots Nation in what is being billed as “an idea free-for-all.” The meeting of the minds will take place at 2 p.m. on Thursday in the fifth floor Rotunda of the Convention Center. Not only are all three published by Light Publications – billed as [...]
Budgeting for Disaster: Cutting the Buddha
Our budget tour continues with a visit to the Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals. The acronym is BHDDH and I’m told by insiders it’s pronounced “buddha.” BHDDH is spending more time than usual in the news. This is largely because last year they cut $26 million from the budget that would have gone to [...]
Budgeting for Disaster – Part III
We continue our tour of state budget documents. The Executive Summary has a lot of useful information, but the parts that I find myself referring to most often are not the text descriptions of the Governor’s program for the various departments, but the numbers in the back: the summary tables, the planning values the Budget [...]
“Centrist” Economic Pap
Friend of the blog, Tom Sgouros expresses the following concern about protestors and supporters of Occupy Providence:I’ve enjoyed walking through Burnside Park on my way to and from work lately, and I find the activity and energy invigorating. One point that worries me, though, is represented in some conversations I’ve joined or overheard as I [...]
“We did not spend our way here — We were robbed.”
Friend of the blog, Tom Sgouros, has an excellent piece out on GoLocalProv, “Occupy Movement is on Right Track.” I attended the rally and march and think Tom best captured the spirit of the event and provided probably the most accurate count of the number in attendance.
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