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posted on
April 6th, 2009
from
RI Policy Reporter
based in
Providence

Keep Coastway Credit Union small: Vote NO!

Coastway Credit Union, based in Cranston, but with several branches
around the state, is one of Rhode Island's unsung successes. A
modest-sized community credit union with about $300 m ...

posted on
April 6th, 2009
from
RI Policy Reporter
based in
Providence

Plus ca change...

From O. Henry's Rural Sports, one of his tales of Jeff
Peters, the con man:

"Farmers are not fair game to me as high up in
our business as me and Andy was; but ther ...

read more about "Plus ca change..."

posted on
April 6th, 2009
from
RI Policy Reporter
based in
Providence

Our economic woes: Doing it to ourselves

The essence of Greek tragedy is that the hero does it to himself.
King Creon destroys his family through his stubborn insistence on
punishing Antigone. Oedipus was, well, blind to his ...

posted on
April 3rd, 2009
from
RI Policy Reporter
based in
Providence

Deep six the supplemental budget

The House rewrite of the Governor's supplemental budget could hardly
be a worse document than the original budget, but it is just as bad.
On balance, you have to say it's slightly more ...

posted on
April 3rd, 2009
from
RI Policy Reporter
based in
Providence

The budget follies: Comedy or tragedy?

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 stat ...