Exeter, Rhode Island has certified a recall election of all four Democratic Town Council members....
One thing you have to remember about Obamacare is that much of the financial pain, such as steep penalties, is back ended so that by the time people wake up to reality, the law has been operating for years and it's too late. Here's yet another...
My home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations has provided much material for Legal Insurrection over the years, including the dispute as to the name itself. Splitting the year between Ithaca and Rhode Island provided me with the distinction of having Patrick Kennedy and Maurice...
Maybe we can sell the Superman Building to Detroit...
Father-daughter dances, currently banned in Cranston, Rhode Island after the ACLU and a single mother threatened to sue under the state anti-discrimination law, are one step closer to reinstatement. The Rhode Island Senate has approved language amending the law to allow single-sex events if comparable events are...
There was a lock down of the University of Rhode Island campus in Kingston today after reports of a possible gunman on campus. Lockdown lifted at URI Kingston campus; police say no evidence of shooter The Providence Journal had live coverage including a Twitter map showing locked-down students tweeting...
Rhode Island has the highest unemployment rate in the country, it's crushed by unsustainable public sector salaries and pensions which are protected by union control of the legislature and politicians at every level, it is one of only two states losing population and may lose one...
Currently, the Ocean State is "the most anti-free-market, anti-family, and anti-jobs state in the entire country."...
Much of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is without power as the result of the Snowzilla/Snowmaggedon/Blizzapocalypse of 2013. Including my house. Pray for our water pipes. Update 2-10-2013 9 a.m. -- They're still dripping. One of the few times a drip is a good thing. and...
I have pointed out before how In RI, Public Sector Unions Are The State and how behind almost every Democratic politician there stands a union. So the latest news is not surprising. Via ProJo, Laborers' union again gives two R.I. Senate leaders six-figure compensation: Annual reports showing the...
From The Providence Journal: "IPlead ThePiff" posed on his Facebook page with marijuana, money, a delivery guarantee -- and guns. "I don't talk," he wrote on one photo. "I let my guns sing and if a ...
BREAKING!!!!!!! The straight party line vote in my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is an important tool of Democratic Party control -- just check one box at the top and you're done. That box almost always will be Democratic in the most Democratic state...
My home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is under the foot of the unions and the Democratic politicians they control. This tiny beautiful state is politically pathetic, with a voting death grip on big goverment. It's a death spiral, as witnessed by the...
I saw this Saturday night at Twins Pizza, a 50-year old institution in North Providence, RI. It's an old-school pizza place in a deeply Italian, working-class town. Dated wood paneling, big portions, cheap prices. And this statement hanging in the waiting area: ...
John Robitaille is the type of moderate Republican we constantly are told is needed to win over centrist Democrats and independents. But it's not true in Rhode Island and many other blue states. There are not enough centrist Democrats or independents willing to consider moderate Republicans in...
You have no idea what it is like. No idea. Watch the latest video at video.insider.foxnews.com...
For the top prize as the Worst-Run State. Via Yahoo Finance (h/t Danelle), California is the worst-run state, with Rhode Island just behind: 49. Rhode Island > Debt per capita: $9,018 (3rd highest) > Budget deficit: 13.4% (28th largest) > Unemployment: 11.3% (3rd highest) > Median household income: $53,636 (17th highest) >...
Spotted in Rhode Island. In a town which has passed a ban on plastic bags in supermarkets: ...
