MEDIA COVERAGE Samples:
5/15/2013: Providence Journal; 0.0 Sales tax for RI touted as cure
5/15/2013: NBC-10; Proponents say eliminating RI sales tax would create jobs
5/15/2013: ABC-6; Will Rhode Island’s Sales Tax be Abolished?
5/15/2013: 630WPRO; Finance committee to consider elimination of sales tax
5/13/2013: GoLocalProv; Top Ten Bills to Watch in Final Weeks of RI General Assembly
5/2/2013: Watchdog.org; Activists see trend as bank cuts off Rhode Island gun shop
5/2/2013: Barrington Patch; Cutting RI Sales Tax Deserves Consideration
4/29/2013: GoLocalProv; Mindsetter Russell Moore: Government Waste and Abuse in Plain Sight
4/25/2013: Brown Spectator; Winner: Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
4/23/2013: GoLocalProv; State Run Disability Services Cost Three Times Private Firms
4/4/2013: GoLocalProv; Bankrupt Central Falls Doled Out Raises to City Workers
4/3/2013: GoLocalProv; Raising RI Minimum Wage Would Kill 3400 Jobs – Report
4/3/2013: NBC 10; Congressmen to push for federal minimum wage hike
4/2/2013: GoLocalProv; RIOpenGov.org Make RI State Workers’ Salaries Public Online
4/1/2013: Providence Phoenix; In an online news contretemps, signs of weakness in the RI media
3/30/2013: Providence Journal; People on the Move in Rhode Island
3/29/2013: 63oWPRO; Report shows state nurses, laundry workers earning $100k in OT
3/29/2013: Providence Journal; Spotlight on some RI employees’ overtime reignites debate
3/27/2013: ABC 6; Report: State laundry workers cleaning up in overtime
3/27/2013: NBC 10; Money Watchers: State laundry workers earning six figures
3/27/2013: GoLocalProv; New Allegations Surface in RI Medicaid Fraud
3/19/2013: Providence Journal; While RI dithers, border stores lose customers to Mass
3/18/2013: Westerly Sun; Center: Waste, fraud in RI as high as $185M
3/15/2013: Westerly Sun; Repeal of RI Sales Tax is a Win-Win
3/11/2013: GoLocalProv; A Lower Corporate Tax or Lower Sales Tax: What does RI Need More?
3/8/2013: Barrington Patch: Continue Conversation on Sales Tax
3/7/2013: The Herald News; Repealing RI Sales Tax is a Healthy Discussion to Have
3/5/2013: The Valley Breeze; Be brave! End the sales tax
3/5/2013: Providence Journal AND Legal Insurrection Op-ed; Zero out sales tax to change RI game
2/28/2013: Providence Journal; Risk for Rhode Island
2/27/2013: GoLocalProv; Don Roach: RI Sales Tax needs to go
2/26/2013: GoLocalProv; New Report Says Sales Tax Repeal Only a $105 Million Problem
2/13/2013: GoLocalProv; Mass vs RI; Sales Tax Wars
2/10/2013: NBC-10; Stenhouse on 10 News Conference
1/30/2013: RI PBS; Stenhouse on television panel, A Lively Experiment
1/18/2013: GoLocalProv; The most debt-ridden cities and towns
1/8/2013: NBC-10; RI consumer group: eliminate sales tax, grow business
12/6/2012: WickedLocal, Guest Opinion; Sakonnet bridge tolls set RI on wrong course
12/4/2012: 920AM WHJJ, Mike Stenhouse on the Helen Glover Show
12/1/2012: GoLocalProv, Travis Rowley: Tie the Public to the Private
11/29/2012: The Herald News, Guest Opinion: Public employees would benefit from pro-growth policies
11/29/2012: Providence Journal, RI public sector pay outpaces private
11/29/2012: GoLocalProv, Report Finds RI Government Workers Out-Earn Private Sector
11/15/2012: Providence Journal, Op-ed: The old approach won’t restart RI
11/1/2012: The Valley Breeze, Op-ed: “Voters, don’t miss opportunity to make real changes in R.I.”
10/17/2012: The Valley Breeze, Shallcross-Smith Proposes Eliminating State Sales Tax
10/17/2012: Cranston Herald, Study shows free-market enterprise is path to prosperity in RI
10/6/2012: WPRI.com Saturday Morning Post “Quick hits on Politics and more in RI” (RIVotes released)
10/2/2012: East Bay RI, Barrington representative says numbers back him. (Barrington citizen cites RIVotes.org)
9/20/2012: PBN article on General Assembly Freedom Index
9/20/2012: GoLocalProv “Think Tank Releases Legislative Scorecard“
9/13/2012: Mike Stenhouse on “What’s a Citizen to Do?”, Rhode Island State of the State
9/06/2012: 790AM 9-6-12 Stenhouse Podcast - Mike Stenhouse discusses the Center’s Prosperity Agenda on “Positively RI” with James Lawrence and the Madman
6/21/2012: The Valley Breeze, R.I. budget fails to be bold (republication of CEO commentary)
6/19/2012: Prov. Business News, Minimum Wage Bump Will Cost 200 Jobs
5/2/2012: Open Letter to Municipalities published in Valley Breeze, http://www.valleybreeze.com/2012/05/02/cl/how-about-truth-in-numbers-on-cumberland-s-pensions
3/20/1012: Prov. Business News, All of RI May be Critical Status
2/14/2012: Warwick Beacon, Center’s STAMP analysis centerpiece of article on the Chafee tax plan
2/14/2012: 630WPRO – Center’s Report Card featured by RI-GOP at legislative agenda press conference
2/14/2012: GoLocalProv.org, Conservative Think Tank Says State is Not Competitive
1/30/2012: Americans For Tax Reform , ATR: Opposed to Rhode Island Sales Tax Increase
1/23/2012: GoLocalProv.org, NEW: Conservative Think Tank Rips Chafee on Taxes
1/10/12: “Closing The Gap” education study report: Providence Journal
1/10/12: “Closing The Gap” Providence Business News
11/8/2011: Our Center’s post by Justin Katz featured as Top Story on Channel-6 TV
11/7/2011: 3298 earn more in retirement: ProJo Article, GoLocalProv Article
10/31/2010: RIOpenGov.org cited in GoLocalProv report about pension payments leaving RI
10/21/2011: CEO Stenhouse quoted on NPR website regarding pension reform
10/20/2011: ProJo blog about the Center’s special pension ‘task force’
9/20/11: Providence Journal, New policy center advises lawmakers about pension reform
9/19/11: Providence Journal OpEd, Mike Stenhouse: Go slow on R.I. health exchange;
9/22/2011 – Anchor Rising blog quotes OpEd – http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/013382.html
PRESS RELEASES:
6/4/2012: Zero.Zero Sales Tax Media Release
2/16/2012: Media Event: Report Cards to be handed out at Statehouse
1/23/2012: Policy Brief: Raising Sales Taxes will Cost Jobs
1/9/2012: “Closing The Gap” Education Study
11/16/2011: TaskForce-Rep Jon Brien & ALEC-A Tale of Two States - PressRelease
11/7/2011: PensionOverPay-PressRelease
10/27/2011: Center for Freedom Launches RIOpenGov.org
10/20/11: TaskForce-PressRelease -Pension Task Force Media Release