For 26 years almost. Members like elaine gave back benefits to their ailing employers equal to 1500 a worker. Now it says that its time for the surviving and recovering casinos to give back. They are climbing back up and thriving. When we gave those things up our plan was always when things get better we need the stuff back. The union is demanding a 3 an hour pay hike over five years. Perhaps the biggest hurdle for unite the taj mahal. Three years ago a bankruptcy judge terminated pensions and health benefits. The taj lowers the standard in the city and we need to put an end to that. Workers could walk during one of this towns biggest weekends. A fact not lost on officials. Its not in anyones best interest especially during the 4th of july weekend and hopefully cooler heads prevail. Hope springs eternal. Talks are scheduled for pretty much all day tomorrow and friday is the key day but the union has not set an exact hour for a deadline yet. If there is a strike the casinos have not sai
The Sarasota County School Board picked Hillsborough County deputy school superintendent Terrence Connor as their new superintendent following a 3-2 vote Wednesday.
Gina Raimondo. PHOTO: Will Morgan
The State of Rhode Island is going to spend fifty thousand dollars on an official portrait of former governor Gina Raimondo. Really?
There is nothing wrong with honoring our past chief executives with an image in the State House. It is honorable, too, to actually pay a too often underappreciated and undervalued artist for their work.
The current Secretary of Commerce deserves her place in the pantheon of Governors of Rhode Island. The problem is the word official. Given the nature of such paintings, plus the dreadful lack of quality of the existing gubernatorial portraits, the Raimondo version is likely to be a visual disaster.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST