November 29, 2012

Things We Read Today (37), Thursday

Changing unions' privatization strategy; the government spending ratchet; the government spending racket; and the trap of dependency.

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Posted by Justin Katz at 4:58 PM
Ocean State Current

November 28, 2012

Things We Read Today (36), Wednesday

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.

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Posted by Justin Katz at 5:42 PM
Ocean State Current

Rhode Island's Government Payroll: Living Beyond Our Means

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.

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Posted by Justin Katz at 12:00 PM
Ocean State Current

November 27, 2012

Things We Read Today (35), Tuesday

Healthcare and what you get for free; making a living trying to fix the dying (state); the dictator prescription; and unhealthily sexist (female) teachers.

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Posted by Justin Katz at 5:37 PM
Ocean State Current

The Unmentionable Solution to the Fiscal Cliff

Long-term repair of the federal government's debt problem requires an economy founded on productive activity, not the debt of future generations.

Posted by Justin Katz at 7:30 AM
Anchor Rising

November 26, 2012

Things We Read Today (34), Monday

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.

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Posted by Justin Katz at 5:00 PM
Ocean State Current

November 23, 2012

Things We Read Today (33), Friday

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.

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Posted by Justin Katz at 4:47 PM
Ocean State Current

Whitehouse's Social Security Blinders

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse offers a succinct recitation of his party's flawed talking points on Social Security.

Posted by Justin Katz at 9:21 AM
Ocean State Current

November 21, 2012

Things We Read Today (32), Wednesday

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).

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Posted by Justin Katz at 4:59 PM
Ocean State Current

November 20, 2012

October Employment: Boomtime in Rhode Island?

Employment data suggests that, despite the impressions of those who live here, Rhode Island's job market is booming.

Posted by Justin Katz at 4:24 PM
Ocean State Current

November 19, 2012

City Politics, Country Politics

Debate around the Internet is beginning to make the city-suburb divide look like a festering battle along ideological lines.

Posted by Justin Katz at 5:19 PM
Ocean State Current

Inefficiency in Economic Development: Money Looking for Makers

Historic tax credits have a broader effect than is immediately obvious, ultimately harming hard-working Rhode Islanders.

Posted by Justin Katz at 10:59 AM
Ocean State Current

November 17, 2012

The Fall from Autumn's Climb

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.

Posted by Justin Katz at 10:35 AM
Literature

November 13, 2012

Town-by-Town Single-Family Home Sales, October

The Current updates its monthly review of single-family home sales statewide and town by town.

Posted by Justin Katz at 4:48 PM
Ocean State Current

November 8, 2012

Things We Read Today (31), Thursday

On the politics (and policy) of exit polls, social issues, statism, and hugging.

Posted by Justin Katz at 5:56 PM
Ocean State Current

15,000 Gasps for Air

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.

Posted by Justin Katz at 8:23 AM
Anchor Rising

November 7, 2012

Re: Picking Up the Pieces

Some RI political clichés have to go, and conservatives' focus has to change.

Posted by Justin Katz at 9:03 AM
Anchor Rising

November 5, 2012

Things We Read Today (30), Monday

Pre-election restlessness; race, politics, and advancement; differing job estimates without optimism; situational social issue calculus; old media as the election's big loser.

Posted by Justin Katz at 5:46 PM
Ocean State Current

November 4, 2012

Things We Read Today (29), Weekend

Campaign finance serving incumbents; too common common political wisdom, locally; not hating the opposition; fearing the "common core." Click here

Posted by Justin Katz at 6:06 PM
Ocean State Current

November 2, 2012

Romney Rally Compare & Contrast

A stark contrast in reports from a Friday night Romney rally in Ohio.

Posted by Justin Katz at 9:15 PM
Anchor Rising

Strange Days for Employment Data

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.

Posted by Justin Katz at 10:33 AM
Ocean State Current

November 1, 2012

Things We Read Today (28), Thursday

Mainstream reporters chat; the unknown cost of economic development; improving higher education by dumbing it down; a lawless society.

Posted by Justin Katz at 5:28 PM
Ocean State Current