RI: the gift that keeps on giving

Here's one of the best bits from Kathy Gregg and Steve Peoples's report yesterday on how the State of Rhode Island, "for the first time in modern accounting history," ended a budget year in the red due to overspending.

Asked yesterday if the Carcieri administration’s over-budget spending had broken any state laws, Michael Healey, spokesman for Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch, said “this is a good question and a fair question and we don’t have an answer because no one has ever asked us before. We are going to have to research it and get back to you.”