OCG BLOG

At the OCG forum, RI General Treasurer Frank Caprio, pointed out that the special interests (aka – unions) have spent years and a goodly sum of money up at the statehouse lobbying for their causes. Governor Carcieri says he doesn’t fault them for it, because they are very good at what they [...]

Rhode Island was founded on religious freedom, the concept that any person was free to worship any god or any way they wanted. Roger Williams believed that man could communicate directly with God and did not need to do so via an intermediary. Economically, New England flourished because of the Protestant “work ethic,” the concept [...]