Changing unions' privatization strategy; the government spending ratchet; the government spending racket; and the trap of dependency.
Threats to the economy (cliffs and debts); RI lagging again (yawn); dependors and dependees; Social Security a problem; and a civil right to the war zone frat party.
State and local workers in Rhode Island receive more than 26% more doing the same work, and with the same experience, as those in the state's private sector. The major area of focus should be on empowering taxpayers to become more prosperous.
Healthcare and what you get for free; making a living trying to fix the dying (state); the dictator prescription; and unhealthily sexist (female) teachers.
Long-term repair of the federal government's debt problem requires an economy founded on productive activity, not the debt of future generations.
Political theory (watching where you're going); bonds added to the pool of bubbles; safe regions in a pool with dangerous; government as the most dangerous bubble.
What's up with the Providence charter push; why RI schools lack warmth; how pervasive is progressive destruction; and how an island is like policy knowledge.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse offers a succinct recitation of his party's flawed talking points on Social Security.
Taft-Carter takes the Iannazzi mantle; RI back to pre-democracy; the ascendance of unaccountable bureaucracies; and America gone mad (with the Big Blue Bug).
Employment data suggests that, despite the impressions of those who live here, Rhode Island's job market is booming.
Debate around the Internet is beginning to make the city-suburb divide look like a festering battle along ideological lines.
Historic tax credits have a broader effect than is immediately obvious, ultimately harming hard-working Rhode Islanders.
For a friend.
He left no note nor clues of time,
so none can say just what he saw
before the fall from autumn's climb.
I picture rich pre-dusk sublime,
through leaves of earthy hued tree braw.
He left no note nor clues of time.
His friends pursued life's paradigm.
Was his response then to withdraw,
before the fall from autumn's climb?
If warned, none would've begrudged a stime
for deeper talks or games of taw.
He left no note nor clues of time.
He'd seemed so balanced in his prime,
and one to know spring follows thaw,
before the fall from autumn's climb.
If crumpled leaves complete the rhyme,
was baleful hemp a prose whipsaw?
He left no note nor clues of time
before the fall from autumn's climb.
The Current updates its monthly review of single-family home sales statewide and town by town.
On the politics (and policy) of exit polls, social issues, statism, and hugging.
I've marked the 15,000 post on Anchor Rising (and Dust in the Light) by explaining the value of so many words in a state that continues on the wrong path.
Some RI political clichés have to go, and conservatives' focus has to change.
Pre-election restlessness; race, politics, and advancement; differing job estimates without optimism; situational social issue calculus; old media as the election's big loser.
Campaign finance serving incumbents; too common common political wisdom, locally; not hating the opposition; fearing the "common core." Click here
A stark contrast in reports from a Friday night Romney rally in Ohio.
The most accurate summary of today's national employment numbers from the BLS might be "a mixed-but-still-tepid (and strange) picture." Overall results are of modest, insufficient improvement, but employment results are inexplicably rosy.
Mainstream reporters chat; the unknown cost of economic development; improving higher education by dumbing it down; a lawless society.
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