Ken Block: Data shows Master Lever Likely Helped Speaker Fox Avoid Defeat...
This afternoon, Ken Block released the following interesting analysis of the 2012 election results for District 4. Reform advocate urges Fox and Senate President Paiva-Weed to respect the voice of...
View ArticleA Brief Primer on Gun-Permitting Laws in Rhode Island
Commenter "Mike" noted that there is more to the Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin’s proposed firearms permitting bill (h/t Providence Journal) than which office handles an application....
View ArticleOpen Thread: Crisis in Central Coventry
Senators Lou Raptakis and Nick Kettle submitted a pair of bills to the General Assembly today concerning the Central Coventry Fire District. The first bill describes new outlines for the Coventry,...
View ArticleProperty Tax Assessments
Based on some Twitter chatter this morning, I learned that the property tax assessment letters are going out today in Providence. The citizens of our capital city are learning what value their homes...
View ArticleA Local Focus on Apathy and Fear
My essay on apathy and fear in Rhode Island is in today's Providence Journal. From the version that Anchor Rising readers may have already read on the American Spectator's site, I've changed the focus...
View ArticleRedistributive Property Taxes: Who's in the Providence Crosshairs?
The way property taxes work, in Rhode Island, revaluations are little more than a way of redistributing the tax burden, and in Providence, a shift from taxing buildings to taxing land has...
View ArticleSpring into Summer Conference at Portsmouth Institute
With spring more or less undeniably having arrived, we're coming up on one of my favorite weekends of the year. This year, the Portsmouth Institute's annual conference is June 7-9, and the topic is...
View ArticleAnd When I Ran
Reflections the night of the Boston Marathon explosions. And when I first learned my legs I ran to see how fast they could go And when my friends called games I ran to laugh, to win, and (yes) to...
View ArticleSocking It To the Insurance Co or To The Insured? Rhode Island Has the...
To set the stage: This Wall Street Journal summary map indicates that Rhode Island has the seventh highest per capita health-care spending. In filings Monday, Blue Cross Blue Shield of RI requested an...
View ArticleUnion Rules and "Unique System" Drive Up Overtime for State Government...
Suzanne bates has another state-payroll-related investigative report on the Ocean State Current, this one covering a job titled "community living assistant." These are high-school-educated employees...
View ArticleGovernment Employees Get Paychecks, Not Handouts
While I don’t expect to change his final assessment, I’d like to correct a misunderstanding in Thomas Kolodziejczak’s letter in today's Providence Journal, “Katz’s rightist ravings.” Responding to an...
View ArticleBREAKING: One Bombing Suspect Dead, Another Possibly Surrounded in Watertown MA
A press release from the Middlesex County (MA) District Attorney, via Reuters, has information on everything that's been confirmed as of 5AM, related to last night's murder of an MIT police officer...
View ArticleMarch Employment in Rhode Island: How Worlds Diverge
Watching the employment statistics, as presented by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) from month to month, offers an interesting perspective on how people can develop different...
View ArticleThree Same Sex Marriage Bill to be Voted on this Week; Broad and Narrow...
Three same-sex marriage bills have been posted for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on this Tuesday, S0038 and H5015A which would authorize same sex marriage by statute, and S0708 which calls for...
View ArticleTogether Again for the First Time
The title of this post is a phrase that's struck me as peculiar ever since I first spotted it on a comic book that had found its way into my childhood collection, somehow. Does it indicate that it was...
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