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State library funding rewards Barrington, punishes Central Falls
There are several differences between the public library in Barrington and the one in Central Falls. The Barrington library has more than 129,000 print items on its shelves and lent out 384,257...
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Racial injustice vs. property rights: Ferguson, RhodeMapRI and the American...
There are two political gatherings today in Rhode Island that may have more in common with each other than it seems on the surface. In Providence, there is a “march against police violence” in...
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RhodeMapRI and preventing future Fergusons
Ferguson, (from Wikipedia) A new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) by Richard Rothstein titled The Making of Ferguson: Public Policies at the Root of its Troubles puts some of the recent...
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Legislation would boost state aid to urban libraries
Two Central Falls lawmakers authored a bill that would direct more state funding to libraries in the seven distressed urban cities in Rhode Island. The legislation, which will be heard by a Senate...
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Ed Fitzpatrick, Center for Freedom & Prosperity, RI Future agree on library...
RI Future, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity and now the Providence Journal’s Ed Fitzpatrick all agree on this one: Rhode Island’s library funding formula is way too regressive. This odd trio...
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More fake reasons for fighting affordable housing
Credit Bill Rupp, Barrington Patch. Jim Hummel, an independent journalist who lives in Barrington, took a very different tack than me on the issue of affordable housing in Rhode Island’s favorite...
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Barrington affordable housing project lives
Credit Bill Rupp, Barrington Patch. Good for the Barrington Planning Board for unanimously approving a controversial affording housing project. I think. “Multiple conditions” were placed on the...
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Ken Block didn’t vote until 2000
Ken Block, the Barrington millionaire who recently switched from the Moderate Party to the Republican Party to run for governor, didn’t registered to vote until October of 1999, according to state and...
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ProJo fails to identify marijuana special interest
The Providence Journal op/ed page ran two opposing letters to the editor this morning regarding marijuana legalization but only identified one writer as an advocate with a special interest – even...
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Is equal equitable on state education funding?
Is equal equitable with regard to state education funding? As it happens, even a progressive state funding formula isn’t equitable when it comes to helping Rhode Island’s economically diverse cities...
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