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Beth made a post at the Dose yesterday about an anti-drug war event at Brown: The Brown University chapter of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy ( SSDP ) sponsored a lecture last night featuring Jeffrey A. Miron , libertarian economist and Director of...
Considering the socially conservative ethos of the General Assembly, it was somewhat counter-intuitive when the legislature overrode Governor Carcieri's veto of a medical marijuana bill a few years back. Yet if the Ocean State's smallness was...
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;...
In the aftermath of the death last week of 17-year-old Patrick Murphy in Barrington, Bob Kerr this week had an insightful observation about Americans and alcohol: “Our kids drink because we drink,” Father Glover said. But that’s not the only reason. Sure...
As expected, the General Assembly has passed a measure to make medical marijuana legal on an ongoing basis in Rhode Island. The legislature is expected to override a gubernatorial veto. Te-Ping Chen recently offered a look in the Phoenix at the surprisingly...
This week, as the General Assembly votes to make permanent Rhode Island's medical marijuana law, Te-Ping Chen reports in the Phoenix that the measure's implementation has taken place with relatively few snags or problems: In January 2006, the General...
WPRO-AM's Dan Yorke has been beating the drum this afternoon for additional prison construction as a way of responding to the all-time high population at the ACI. One of his callers upped the ante, suggesting that the state take Central Falls by eminent...
As we head into budget season, One Rhode Island has announced plans to hold a news conference this Thursday, February 22, at 11 am, at the Federal Hill House, 9 Courtland St., Providence, to outline its 2007 legislative priorities. "Coalition urges expansions...
The bill has come due for about a decade in which state spending has grown at more than twice the rate of inflation. While Governor Carcieri and the General Assembly have their work cut out in trying to make sense of Rhode Island's structural deficit...
Even with widespread recognition about the failings of the drug war, moving in a new direction remains difficult for states, in large part because of entrenched practices. I've got a look in this week's Phoenix at how the state deficit and crowding at...
