Post from RI Policy Reporter

W.C. Fields had it that "Comedy is tragedy happening to someone else." And in truth, what can you say about the budget farce whose curtain went up last week? If I lived in another state, I'd be laughing. Governor Carcieri presented his budget to the legislature last week (only five or six weeks past the deadline). Astonishingly, he was unable to get any Republican to introduce it for him at first. They t ...