Terry Cowgill lives in Lakeville, blogs at ctdevilsadvocate.com and is news editor of The Berkshire Record in Great Barrington, Mass. Follow him on Twitter @terrycowgill.
Rhode Island is at it again. It’s only been a little more than three months since the Providence Journal published a scathing editorial that took aim at Connecticut’s unfunded state employee pension liability and the abject failure on the part of elected officials here to adequately confront it.
“How could this be?” we asked ourselves. Isn’t Rhode Island an economic basket case? Well, turns out the new governor, Democrat Gina Raimondo, had taken meaningful steps to reform the public employee pension system.
Now, after taking the sorts of actions on pensions that we were unwilling to take, it looks like Rhode Island has picked up one of our bad habits — namely the strategy of bribing companies to relocate to the Ocean State or remain there.
Read the full story at CTNewsJunkie.com
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