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Dr. Susan Berry Breitbart.com Big Government 6 Jul 2014 Where states are failing to repeal the controversial Common Core standards, many parents have decided to take matters into their own hands and petition their local school districts to drop the nationalized standards and replace them with others of their choosing. In Rhode Island, Smithfield parent […] July 7th, 2014 | Tags: "Common Core of State Standards Initiative Project", Achieve Inc., Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Council for Chief State School Officers, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, home schooling, Lincoln Chafee, National Governors Association, Rema Tomka, State Education Commissioner Deborah A. Gist | Category: Department of Education, Education, Federal spending, Rhode Island | Comments are closed
Devious election plot bypasses Constitution Aaron Klein WorldNetDaily 7/30/2013 The National Popular Vote effort, which could see only 14 states – those with the largest populations – decide the presidency for voters in all 50 states, is fully partnered with a George Soros-funded election group. The group, the Center for Voting and Democracy, received original […] August 5th, 2013 | Tags: “National Popular Vote Compact”, ACLU, Center for Voting and Democracy, Chris Pearson, Electoral College, FairVote, John R. Koza, Jonathan Soros, Joyce Foundation, Lincoln Chafee, National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Open Society Institute (OSI), Rob Richie, Tom Golisano, Working Families Party | Category: Barack Obama, California, Elections, George Soros, Hawai'i, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Politics, Progressives, Rhode Island, US Constitution, Vermont, Washington | Comments are closed
Mary Williams Walsh The New York Times 12/4/2012 Can a judge rule impartially on pension cuts when her mother, her son, her uncle and even she herself all have a stake in preserving the status quo? In Rhode Island, the site of a sweeping pension overhaul last year, a prominent New York lawyer is seeking […] December 7th, 2012 | Tags: Christmas tree, culture, David Boies, Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island, Gina Raimondo, Judge Sarah Taft-Carter, Lincoln Chafee, public sector pensions, State pension funds | Category: corruption, Economy, Federal Judges, Politics, Progressives, Rhode Island, Taxes, unfunded liabilities, Unions | Comments are closed
R.I. Benefits Exchange gets $58M in new federal funding Richard Asinof Providence Business News 11/29/2011 WASHINGTON – Rhode Island received $58 million in new federal funds to help to build the infrastructure for its health insurance benefits exchange, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday. Rhode Island is the only state to […] December 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Executive order, Kathleen Sebelius, Lincoln Chafee | Category: Department of Health and Human Services, federal funding, Health Care, Rhode Island, Socialism, Taxes | Comments are closed
Tina Susman Los Angeles Times 9/27/2011 Rhode Island education officials have voted to let high school graduates who are in the country illegally pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities, acting on an issue that state lawmakers have dodged and that has entered into the debate among the Republican presidential hopefuls. The vote Monday […] September 27th, 2011 | Tags: amnesty, DREAM Act, driver's licenses, drug warlords, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Lincoln Chafee, multiculturalism, polygamy | Category: California, Economy, Education, Great Britain, Illegal Immigration, Islam, Mexico, Property rights, Rhode Island, Taxes, Tea Parties | Comments are closed
William A. Jacobson Legal Insurrection 3/2/2011 If you want to see one of the greatest escape acts in the history of politics, witness David Cicilline’s election to the United States Congress last November in the 1st Congressional District of Rhode Island. Cicilline had been Mayor of Providence, and was endorsed not only by almost all […] March 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Lincoln Chafee, Mayor Angel Taveras, Mayor David N. Cicilline, Providence, Rep. David N. Cicilline, structural deficits | Category: Economy, Illegal Immigration, law enforcement, Politicians, Progressives, Rhode Island, Taxes, unemployment, Unions | Comments are closed
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