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Renaissance Man Robert Healey , the leader of the Cool Moose Party in Rhode Island, knows just how tough it is to build an alt-party. In 2002, I wrote about the challenges facing alternative parties . Healey, 45, who is still hailed by strangers on the...
Labor activist Patrick Crowley, who's been on the warpath lately against Governor Carcieri (Pat, we suspect, would say it's the other way around), sends word of this rally : Community Activists, Organized Labor and Religious Leaders Will Join In Calling...
Speaking of Chafee, he has declined to sign on with the Moderate Party of Rhode Island , main Moderate Ken Block tells me, but Block has enlisted the backing of former attorney general Arlene Violet, my regular co-panelist on Newsmakers. In hindsight...
Matt takes a look at the front of today's ProJo's State House tax-issue coverage and sees a not-so-subtle division: Anyone notice the stark contrast on the front page of today's BeloJo ? In one corner we have MEN IN SUITS who are longtime advocates for...
David Segal and Matt Jerzyk yesterday used a ProJo op-ed to outline a progressive vision for Rhode Island . They focused on three important needs: efficiency through regionalization, and creating a predictable funding formula; building the Green economy;...
Also joining us for today's taping was Pat Crowley , Bob Walsh's right-hand man at the National Education Association Rhode Island, and a peripatetic union-media figure in the Ocean State. Taking issue with statements made by Governor Carcieri during...
Why is that callers to talk-radio in Rhode Island are invariably quick to condemn "deadbeats" and "freebies," yet they never mention how various US corporations are the beneficiaries of millions of dollars in corporate welfare , much of it related to...
