Op-ed / Letters to the Editor

Op-ed / Letters to the Editor
Jun 15
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Guest Column:
Ted Almon

Attitude is important to make health care reform work

It was Henry Ford who said, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” His wisdom has an amazing array of applications, and our current effort to overhaul the health care system is certainly one.
Op-ed / Letters to the Editor
Jun 8
Guest Column:
Ray Mathieu

Classifications threaten independent contracting

It’s no secret that Rhode Island’s economy has been struggling for years and that much of our woes are self-inflicted: High taxes and too much regulation have put a burden on businesses that have driven them to either initially open or eventually relocate across one of our borders.
Op-ed / Letters to the Editor
Jun 8
Guest Column:
Clive Crook

Politics can’t handle the truth about fiscal policy

What we know, or think we know, about fiscal policy five years after the global recession started isn’t all that different from what we knew, or thought we knew, back in 2008. It boils down to two points. One, fiscal stimulus is essential when conventional monetary policy is powerless. Two, fiscal stimulus may be impossible even when it’s essential.
Op-ed / Letters to the Editor
Jun 1

Change may be slow in coming but can happen a little at a time

To the Editor: Thank you for adding to the growing public attention now being focused on Rhode Island’s 43 independent fire districts (“More oversight of fire districts needed,” May 20, 2013). Although your editorial applauds fire district consolidation being considered in Lincoln and Cumberland, I am pleased to report that the Town Council and voters of East Greenwich are on the verge of eliminating their fire district and merging the former fire district personnel and assets into a newly created town fire department.
Op-ed / Letters to the Editor
Jun 1

Business voice must be heard from more often in Gist debate

Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to R.I. Board of Education Chair Eva Marie Mancuso on May 24.
Economic Indicators
May 25
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Guest Column:
Edward M. Mazze and Edinaldo Tebaldi

R.I. lags but focus on manufacturing would help a lot

Rhode Island remains behind other states in New England when looking at major economic indicators such as growth of the gross state product and the unemployment rate. However, the state economy is slowly regaining momentum.
Op-ed / Letters to the Editor
May 18
Guest Column :
William D. Cohan

Treatment of SEC whistle-blower puts leadership in doubt

George Canellos, 48, has one of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s top jobs. The SEC’s new chairman, Mary Jo White, appointed him as co-director of the enforcement division, along with Andrew Ceresney, a former partner of White’s at Debevoise & Plimpton.
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