http://ripr.org en http://ripr.org/post/treasurer-raimondo-rolls-out-report-her-accomplishments <p>State treasurer Gina Raimondo has come out with a report documenting her first two years in office.</p><p>Raimondo says her biggest accomplishment in her first two years of office was passage of a pension overhaul package for state workers.&nbsp; While it shaved benefits, it guarantees pensions will be available for generations to come and saves taxpayers about four billion dollars over the next 20 years.</p><p>Raimondo also reports eliminating a backlog of 900 claims to the Crime Victim Compensation Program. Some of the claims dated back three or four years.</p> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:31:20 +0000 Flo Jonic 9359 at http://ripr.org Treasurer Raimondo rolls out report on her accomplishments http://ripr.org/post/it-time-state-pension-talks <p>Rhode Island’s state pension overhaul faces a Superior Court hearing next month. RIPR political analyst Scott MacKay wonders if&nbsp; it’s time for the parties to negotiate.</p><p>Our state’s landmark pension overhaul heads to Superior Court on December 7. Rhode Islanders of a certain age recall that as the day that lives “in infamy,’’ in the immortal words uttered by President Franklin Roosevelt, to a stunned nation in 1941 after the Pearl Harbor attack.</p> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:00:00 +0000 Scott MacKay 8493 at http://ripr.org http://ripr.org/post/projo-hearts-raimondo <p>Every newspaper has sacred cows. The Providence Journal’s latest is State Treasurer Gina Raimondo. The mordant newsroom joke is that Raimondo is so sacred that she `moos’. Raimondo is a favorite of publisher Howard Sutton; the two served together on the board of Crossroads, which does much good work in our community to help the homeless get back on their feet.</p> Wed, 30 May 2012 08:00:00 +0000 Scott MacKay 12131 at http://ripr.org