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Every Step Leading to More Government, Less Self Determination 23 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm
Forcing Middle Men to Make Sense Dr. Jeffrey Singer, a physician and Cato Institute scholar, has a must-read piece on the Wall Street Journal’s Web site relaying the experience of one of his patients...
Translating the Spin on Health Insurance 22 Aug 2013 | 04:52 pm
HealthSourceRI, the state’s taxpayer-financed ObamaCare insurance marketplace start-up, has released the 2014 premiums for plans through its Web site. Among the challenges of this sort of information...
July Employment: Oof! 21 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm
Although Rhode Island’s unemployment rate held relatively steady in July, from June, the underlying numbers show a much worse picture. The number of Rhode Islanders who told representatives of the Bu...
This Is What State Leadership Looks Like? 21 Aug 2013 | 07:53 am
I’ve been trying to figure out if we have any state leadership here in RI. When we have a Governor who gets embroiled in what to call an evergreen adorned in lights in December and a General Assembly ...
James Cournoyer: Why We Filed a Lawsuit Against Woonsocket Supplemental Tax 20 Aug 2013 | 06:28 am
On Thursday, August 15, a complaint was filed in Superior Court (CA No.: PC -2013-4082) by myself and other Woonsocket taxpayers challenging the legality of the City of Woonsocket’s $2.5 million suppl...
Controlling the Crossing: Consumers, Not Government, Should Mediate Competitors 19 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
Symbolic of the cronyism for which our state has become infamous, the Narragansett Chamber of Commerce plans to petition the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to deny a license to a ferry boat company...
How Many Times Must the East Bay (and Rhode Islanders) Play the Fool? 18 Aug 2013 | 07:02 pm
The first important take-away of the Providence Journal article in today’s edition about a late-night attack on the Sakonnet River Bridge toll-collection system is the milestone that it represents. R...
Things We Read Today (53) 16 Aug 2013 | 09:41 pm
“Diversity”: As Slippery as “Bias” Today’s game of Spot the Subtheme in the Providence Journal includes this from far-left senior citizen columnist Bob Kerr: There was news this week of young Republ...
Ashton Kutcher Delivers Message Teens Need to Hear 16 Aug 2013 | 04:47 pm
Probably best known for portraying characters that exist primarily in the slacker/doofus spectrum, actor Ashton Kutcher accepted a Teen Choice Award the other night and revealed that he really isn’t a...
RI Jobless Rate Increases 16 Aug 2013 | 01:08 am
According to Andy Smith in today’s Providence Journal, the jobless rate in RI increased from 8.8% to 8.9%. The national rate is 7.4%. We also lost 900 additional jobs from the workforce. All of this i...
