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Robitaille on the Mods’ threat to the G.O.P. and more
When I caught up with John Robitaille by phone Thursday – one month after he came within two points of defeating Lincoln Chafee – he was relaxing by the beach in Hawaii. The man had earned a rest after...
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Robitaille on Chafee, deficits, immigration and more
Here’s the second half of my interview with John Robitaille, the Republican and former aide to Gov. Donald Carcieri who placed second in last month’s gubernatorial election. We talked for about a...
View ArticleAnalyst: Deepwater Wind RI project faces challenges
Deepwater Wind announced today that it is doubling the proposed size of its larger offshore wind farm to 200 turbines. The expanded project – which is different from Deepwater’s small pilot wind farm...
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NYT’s Nocera on paywalls, Providence and CEO pay
“Local boy makes good.” In the news business, few Rhode Island natives fit that hoary headline better than Joe Nocera. Nocera grew up in Providence, graduating from Classical High in 1970 before...
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Q&A: The economic impact of an RI sales tax hike
Is an increase in the sales tax a dagger aimed at the heart of Rhode Island’s economy? A prudent way to raise tax revenue and pay for other priorities? Neither? Both? How much would a $165 million tax...
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Reed: Obama vindicated on Libya, but don’t send US troops
This afternoon, President Obama declared that Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s 42-year rule is “coming to an end” as rebel forces took control of Tripoli facing only isolated pockets of resistance....
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Sgouros: RI pension crisis caused by accounting, not shortfall
If Gina Raimondo hadn’t come along, Tom Sgouros might be Rhode Island’s general treasurer today. Sgouros, a liberal writer and performer, withdrew as a Democratic candidate for treasurer and endorsed...
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Q&A: Jared Bernstein, VP Biden’s economist, on RI’s recovery
As President-elect Obama’s team raced to salvage the economy in the winter of 2009, Vice President Joe Biden’s chief economist and economic adviser Jared Bernstein was one of the experts frantically...
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Q&A: New push to beef up Super PAC disclosure rules in RI
It’s not often you see Common Cause Rhode Island‘s John Marion sharing a podium with Governor Chafee, House Speaker Fox and Senate President Paiva Weed. But that’s what happened Thursday afternoon as...
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Q&A: Penn Law’s Skeel on RI pensions, bankruptcy and bonds
On Saturday morning, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras will convene a meeting of the city’s retirees to ask them to accept reductions in their pension benefits to help the capital avoid filing for...
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Q&A: Rob Atkinson on how RI is like Mississippi and Zimbabwe
With unemployment stuck at 11.1%, Rhode Island is still trying to figure out how to end its economic malaise. But is part of the problem the fact that the state is another Mississippi – or worse,...
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Q&A: Lt. Gov. Roberts on what’s next for health reform in RI
There may be no bigger health wonk in Rhode Island politics than Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts. Now in her second term, the Democrat was tasked by Governor Chafee shortly after he took office with...
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Q&A: Dean Baker calls tax deal for Superman building ‘crazy’
The iconoclastic liberal economist Dean Baker is famous for discovering the housing bubble years before better-known economists did so. Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy...
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Q&A: Dean Baker explains how Rhode Island is like Greece
The iconoclastic liberal economist Dean Baker is famous for discovering the housing bubble years before better-known economists did so. Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy...
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