Michael Costa ⚓️
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Board Advisor, Investor. Former Prof of Finance, Civ Eng. “Laughter is like a windshield wiper. It doesn’t stop the rain, but it allows you to keep going.”
Travis Roy, the Boston University hockey player who was paralyzed 11 seconds into his first college shift and went on to be a motivational speaker and advocate for spinal chord injury survivors, has died. He was 45. turnto10.com/news/local/tra…
An incumbent governor hasn't lost a primary in 30 years. Could that change? providencejournal.com/story/news/pol… via @projo
For 50 years, Mark Patinkin has woken up and written about RI providencejournal.com/story/news/col…
If you only count the progressive taxes the U.S. levies, then the U.S. system is quite progressive. But if you also count regressive taxes (payroll taxes, sales taxes, etc), it's not very progressive.
Next Harvard endowment chief faces a private equity hangover ft.trib.al/C7Fkr5N
CRMC nominees move forward despite pushback, past controversy providencejournal.com/story/news/pol…
In #RhodeMap this morning, slip into takeover texts between @StephMachado and me. view.email.bostonglobe.com/?vawpToken=WHT…
Your claim that the top 1% pays 40% of taxes and the bottom 50% only 3% is misleading: It captures just one tax – the federal income tax – and ignores all the rest: payroll taxes, state income taxes, sales taxes, excise duties, etc., many of which are regressive.
BREAKING: Rhode Island is giving the Providence schools back to the city, a year earlier than previously planned Commissioner Infante-Green says she will ask the K-12 Council next week to return the schools on July 1 bostonglobe.com/2026/05/20/met…
Forcing refiners to blend liquified corn into their gasoline is one of the dumbest policies on the books, raising the cost of food and fuel for nonexistent environmental benefits. slowboring.com/p/the-dumb-pol…
Ridiculous. Public corruption amnesia.
Not just big media treatment, either - I remember Barney doing this when I was a cub reporter at The Sun Chronicle. So did Jim McGovern. Felt like Jim Hand was on the phone with one or both of them most days
Rest in Peace, Barney Frank, 86 He did one of his last interviews with former colleague @anthonygbrooks oceanstatemedia.org/politics/barne…
