Providence Journal Commentary

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1451870476602{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Calling R.I. Treasurer’s Pension Bluff Rhode Island’s pension fund (mainly covering state employees and teachers) hasn’t been doing very well at the investment market’s poker table. According to a Dec. 16 article by Katherine Gregg (“R.I. pension fund sharply lags expectations again”), the $7.63 billion…

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Providence Journal Commentary

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1451872830179{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Accountability is what works in education With the release of Rhode Island’s abysmal results on its first round of Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) tests, the adults who ought to be held accountable for the travesty are out in force…

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Parody Song

[vc_row hide_row=”ct_tt_hide_content_timeline”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”79″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1451874010739{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Hey, Tony (Defeat of the Dancing Cop) [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_accordion active_tab=”false” collapsible=”yes”][vc_accordion_tab title=”Lyrics” el_id=”hey-tony-lyrics”][vc_column_text]Hey, Tony It’s nothing personal But we gotta take you out There ain’t two ways about it Now, Tony You’ve done a lot of good But you shoulda kept your mouth…

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Sakonnet Times Commentary

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1451959612946{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Big issues loom — let’s face them as community Maybe something arrived in the local air, with the summer months. Or maybe we were all exhausted by the constant roll of local issues about which we had to care, from major development proposals to all-day…

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