R.I. Supreme Court balancing public, private shore access rights well
It’s summer, and access to the shore is on the minds of many.
While the public throngs Rhode Island’s beautiful beaches, some members of the...
Don’t blame Amazon, Apple for today’s expensive market
The highest-valued stock in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, based on this year’s expected earnings, is not Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc. or any...
R.I.’s past includes a significant flavor of Chinese immigration
Thanks to a Brown University faculty and graduate student project titled “Providence’s Chinatown,” the region has been reacquainted with a significant, if small, piece...
New Woonsocket training center grand idea but needs more detail
Building on the success of the Westerly Education Center, which through industry partnerships (and funding) has helped train more than 1,000 postsecondary students for...
The working poor need help
Bloomberg recently reported on some interesting new data from the Economic Policy Institute. The percent of Americans earning poverty wages – pay that would...
Stop taxpayer subsidies for stadiums
Your tax dollars are being wasted, on an enormous scale, by uncompetitive socialist enterprises that ignore the basic rules of economics.
I refer, of course,...
Farish leaves legacy of inclusion and value of education in R.I.
Rhode Island lost more than a passionate and articulate advocate for the value of higher education when Donald J. Farish died recently at the...
Consider economic rankings carefully before drawing conclusions
At best, national rankings of state business friendliness can help elected officials consider public-policy initiatives.
For instance, after being hammered for years on the matter,...
Time to help student debtors
For decades, the U.S. system of higher education has operated on a unique premise: To make college affordable for a broad swathe of Americans,...
Employers calling all workers
As American society increasingly self-sorts itself into political tribes, there’s a growing and noteworthy exception to that trend: the labor market. A rising share...
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