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From: NEW: Doherty Wants Fair Redistricting Plan
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I would think if the good Colonel really and truly wanted a fair process he would attend one of the many meetings around the state and request it rather than have a lacky send out a release. I have been at most all the meetings and have only seen a lacky attacking on his behalf. More of the same.From: PowerPlayer: Rhode Island College President Nancy Carriuolo
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GO RIC!From: NEW: Doherty Wants Fair Redistricting Plan
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Rickman was never Secretary of State-he campaigned for the office at some level,I forget if it was only in the primary or in the general.From: RI Biz Winners and Flops
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My parents were remarkable peope. They were also very nice people. Happy Holidays.From: RI Biz Winners and Flops
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JJ: Your charm and wit are inspiring. What a wonderfull human being you are! Filled with love, grace and so willing to share. Your parents must have been remarkable peope!Sending you love and all good things!
May the spirit of God be with you and all those who love you!
Merry Christmas!
From: RI Biz Winners and Flops
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Paulie, try English. It's a great language for those of us who know it.From: RI Biz Winners and Flops
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Sarcasm is not your strong suit Mr. Marshall. You write ridiculous things and then become irate when someone challenges your "liberals are criminals" rant. Don't lead with your chin. Of course to do that, you would have to get your head out of Travis Rowley's hind quarters.From: RI Biz Winners and Flops
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Jon-Jon: You are so filled with love, tolerance, understanding and feelings for your fellow man it's truly moving! As is on display here. Guys like you are true leaders.Love and all good things go out to you my brother from another mother. How did you get to be such a warm, compassionate and kind human being? So many of you "Occupiers" and liberals are just like you!
Love ya!
From: URI Expert: State Economy is “Stuck in Neutral”
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the ri economy died about 25 years ago. since that time, its death has been masked by on and off growth in the national economy but mostly from the real estate boom that created a HUGE false ecnomy.consumer spending in ri from 2000 to 2008 was fueled by home borrowing and not resident earnings.
when you have half the state taking equity line sout on their hosue every year and spening it on cars, trips home inprovements, furniture, electronics,etc,,,that was the ri economy for 8 years. thats gone and nothing to replace it.
their are a few bright spots but its too far gone...
From: The Highest RI Property Taxes Per Capita
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I'd love to see a distribution by geographical location within the town. Hilarie 12/12/11From: The Highest RI Property Taxes Per Capita
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Both excellent suggestions. I will look into them. Thanks for reading.From: RI Biz Winners and Flops
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You know where I get all my information about voting irregularities, it's NOT YOU TUBE. You can get edified on YOU TUBE, right after you're done watching sleeping kittens. Balance and Fairness. FOX NOISE IDIOT ALERT. Go ride a bus. See the people who need justice, it'snot conservative blowhards.From: URI Expert: State Economy is “Stuck in Neutral”
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Dr. Leonard Lardaro is nice enough to stay away from blaming the democrats and the fact that they've been running the state into a hole for decades. Like it or not politics has to be factored. Rhode Island sticks out like a sore thumb in New England.From: The Highest RI Property Taxes Per Capita
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A better indicator of how were doing would be to use a property valued at $200,000, and how much each municipaly would tax it. Or to skip the "per capita" thing and just use residents that actually get a tax bill. The per capita way seems to water it down.From: The Highest RI Property Taxes Per Capita
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Dan,The question of where the money all goes is an interesting one. Mazze's statements aside, in my town most of the money seems to go to the current year school budget. It would be very interesting to see a chart like the one above showing the town's school budget as a % of the total tax revenues. How would that % vary across richer and poorer towns?
From: URI Expert: State Economy is “Stuck in Neutral”
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Rhode Island's economy circled the drain a long time ago. It's been down the toilet and into the sewer (cesspool, et al.) for the past 20 years - since at least the days of the credit union crisis in 1991.From: URI Expert: State Economy is “Stuck in Neutral”
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Stuck in neutral? Good grief, the unpalatable reality is that Rhode Island economically is circling the drain.From: The Highest RI Property Taxes Per Capita
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Mazze says: "The largest percentage of property taxes and other sources of revenue go to personnel, fringe benefits, interest on past borrowings/bonds and retirement and health benefits for former municipal employees." We probably can't do much about the interest on bonds, but we can and should do something about the personnel salaries, fringe benefits, pensions and health benefits for current and retired municipal workers. Let's reform all the non-MERS pensions first. Then let's make every municipal worker including public safety workers pay at least 25% of the cost of their health insurance. Let's repeal binding arbitration for public safety workers. Let's eliminate fringe benefits; private sector workers don't get any fringe benefits like longevity salary increases or uniform allowances. At the very least, revise the laws governing disability pensions. Why should all these police and firefighter workers get disability pensions just for "stress?" Disability pensions should only be given to those workers who can't work at all at any job!From: URI Expert: State Economy is “Stuck in Neutral”
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This so-called "expert", like most academics, doesn't know what he's talking about. The inclusion of nation-wide data as components of his RI economic index skews his methodology thereby rendering it useless. The average person on the street has a much better feel for how good or bad the local economy really is - and it SUCKS!From: The Highest RI Property Taxes Per Capita
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Charles, you make a great point and thanks for the conversation. I suppose those four towns qualify as the wealthiest given per capita income as well.Actually, according to the 2000 census (http://www.dlt.ri.gov/lmi/census/inc/towninc.htm) they would be four of the top five.
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Seriously? Did we need to be reminded of this right before Christmas? What a mess.From: Patriots Scalp the Redskins in D.C.
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Yo, Summer Time, your sensibilities are too fragile. A team named "Redskins" whose logo is the silhouette of an Indian brave invites the term "scalp" in headlines and ledes. The logo has been in use since 1932. Direct your displeasure to the Redskins front office or PR department.Good work, again, John, and you're right about the Pats playing in Denver. If the offense doesn't keep the ball for extended periods, the defense will have even more difficulty than usual playing in the thin air of Mile High Stadium.
From: URI Expert: State Economy is “Stuck in Neutral”
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Serious tax reform is needed to encourage jobs growth in this state. It's that simple. All the government "gimmicks" will only prolong this situation. I don't see this state back to full employment until 2018.....maybe. It all depends on what those wingnuts on Smith Hill do. The status quo is slowly driving people into foreclosure or bankruptcy.From: The Highest RI Property Taxes Per Capita
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I got fed up with this tax game and sold out. As long as municipalities keep spending money they don't have, the homeowners of this state will continue to get screwed. The need to cut back on spending but they won't. They think they know more than the taxpayers......think again.From: The Highest RI Property Taxes Per Capita
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Dan...The problem with using property values is that they are variable between communities. A piece of property in one community will be valued differently from an otherwise identical property in another. Valuation is based in part on the perceived desirability of living in a given community...a "self-fulfilling prophesy". What is relevant is not the property valuation, not even the net worth because that includes some estimate of real property value, but the ability to pay the tax on an annual basis...the per capita income. Or do we expect people to sell their homes to pay their taxes?Page 914 of 1398 pages « First < 912 913 914 915 916 > Last »
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