What the master lever and voter ID have in common
Paper ballot with straight party option selected. All across America, Democrats – and quite frankly courts, too – are waking up to the oppressive reality voter ID laws represent for too many...
View ArticleThe candidates weigh in on women’s issues
Six months before the general election, the six candidates for governor came together for the first time last week. And they did so to answer questions about gender equality. The Women’s Fund of Rhode...
View ArticleWhy conservatives play fast and loose with RI’s credit
Don Carcieri Don Carcieri’s epic economic fail of investing in 38 Studios may have a silver lining for the local conservative movement he once led. And both Republican candidates for governor are for...
View ArticleChafee blasts Block and Fung ‘unfit to be governor’
Governor Linc Chafee has long been the staunchest critic of the 38 Studios loan. He’s also one of the biggest critic of not repaying it. Today he blasted Republican gubernatorial candidates Ken Block...
View ArticleKen Block is a Barrington version of Don Carcieri
Ken Block, at last night’s WPRI/Providence Journal debate. Top right, Don Carcieri. “Only an outsider can fix what’s broken here,” said Barrington businessman Ken Block during last night’s first...
View ArticleBlock and Fung: mutual disrespect
Click here for the full debate. Republican gubernatorial candidates Allan Fung and Ken Block both support Common Core, cutting taxes, shrinking government, federal – not local – immigration reform and...
View ArticleThe flaw(s) in opposition to a basic income
Our friends at Ocean State Current-Anchor recently published a piece against the concept of a guaranteed minimum or guaranteed basic income. Justin Katz argues that a GMI would interfere with price...
View ArticleKen Block, ideological stringency and the People’s Pledge
I read with interest Ken Block’s rejection of the People’s Pledge on the following basis: “I support comprehensive campaign-finance reform,” Block said. “But I won’t do it piecemeal.” And a People’s...
View ArticleRaising the minimum wage creates partisan divide
Last week in his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama called on both Chambers of Congress to either work with him to move the country forward or forcing him to use his presidential...
View ArticleKen Block didn’t vote until 2000
Ken Block, the Barrington millionaire who recently switched from the Moderate Party to the Republican Party to run for governor, didn’t registered to vote until October of 1999, according to state and...
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