Delaying tough budget decisions until November is self-serving

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LONG WAIT: State Democratic leaders plan to wait until after the election in November to approve a budget for the current fiscal year, which began July 1. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ NICOLE DOTZENROD
LONG WAIT: State Democratic leaders plan to wait until after the election in November to approve a budget for the current fiscal year, which began July 1. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ NICOLE DOTZENROD
No elected official wants to make decisions that could cost people their jobs, or funding needed to carry out valued community services. Such responsibility is part of the downside of public service that not everyone is cut out for. Do Rhode Island’s state leaders have the stomach – and good judgment – to make those…


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