Tiverton Town Council Dismisses Complaint Against Clerk

The Tiverton Town Council determined its town clerk acted appropriately when dealing with recent charter violation complaints.

The Tiverton Town Council upheld the town clerk's actions in recent charter violation complaint during its meeting on Monday. In a hearing that lasted for nearly four hours, resident Justin Katz presented a case to the Charter Monitoring and Complaint Review Board - which is composed solely of Town Council members. Katz accused Town Clerk Nancy Mello of violating the town's charter in her handling of an October complaint that accused a School Department employee of displaying political paraphernalia on school property. In his complaint Katz claimed that Mello violated the town's charter because - in his opinion - she didn't have the authority to either dismiss or recommend a hearing to the Town Council for that original complaint. Mello …

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LETTER: Rules Have To Apply In Representative Government

Tiverton resident Justin Katz speaks out against the process used to vet a recent complaint about a Town Charter violation where a secretary displayed pins with political messages at school.

LETTER: Tiverton School Committee Candidate Katz Offers Congratulations and Thanks After Losing Election

Tiverton School Committee hopeful Justin Katz offers words of thanks and congratulations after he was not awarded a seat on the committee on Tuesday.

LETTER: School Committee Budget Time Line

Tiverton School Committee Candidate Evan Katz writes a letter to the editor.

Katz Twitter Comments Ignite More Debate

Tweets by Tiverton School Committee candidate Justin Katz about the use of prayer in a Bronx, NY public school classroom put his Twitter account back in the spotlight this week.

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Letter to the Editor

LETTER: Comments Taken Out Of Context

Justin Katz defends comments he made recently on his Twitter account.

To the Editor: Deborah Scanlon Janick’s letter, attacking me (if you can believe it) for a conversation with a long-time acquaintance on Twitter, is an example of what divides Tiverton. Our elective offices may be non-partisan, but anybody hoping to serve their community apparently must expect big-time-politics personal attacks. Twitter is a Web site that allows users to post very short comments. The first sentence of this letter would be too long. People use it to share interesting articles and to have quick, light conversations. In this case, I was responding to the man who started the liberal RI Web site opposing my conservative one; he now works in the Providence mayor’s office. When he asked me about projects like Sandywoods, I …

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The Shill

5:17 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

The entire tweet was posted so by definition it could not be taken out of context. For once I would like to see someone runnig for office to just own up to what they said. If that was your opinion own up to it but stop trying to play the victim when you get caught with your pants down. We all make mistakes just say so and move on don't try to lie your way out after the fact it just makes you look…   more ›

Letter to the Editor

Letter: Taxpayers Have Control Over Their Bills, and the Schools Have Options

Tiverton resident Justin Katz writes a letter to the editor.

Audacity is the only word for Tiverton Schools Superintendent William Rearick's declaration, during a School Committee meeting Tuesday, that "over the past ten years… our budget has decreased from 65% of the total spending of the town to 60%." He went on to list positions and offerings that have been cut, presumably to deal with the lost revenue. The reality is that, from 2001/2002 to 2011/2012, the schools' budget grew from $17.7 million to $26.9 million. That's a 52% increase. The budget for which Rearick is advocating would bring the number up to $27.9 million next year, for a total increase of 58%. (None of this includes the so-called "restricted funds" received from the state and federal governments.) The only reason Rearick is not …

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Tiverton's Justin Katz Leads News Site For Conservative Think Tank

He launched the site about a month ago and will continue administrating Anchor Rising.

From the construction site to an online media office, Tiverton carpenter and blogger Justin Katz launched The Ocean State Current a little more than a month ago. It's the new journalism arm for the conservative think tank Rhode Island Center For Freedom and Prosperity. Katz, the managing editor, said in a recent interview that the Current's emphasis will be on economic policy and good government, with a focus, on education policy, but will cover a broad range of issues stopping short, for the most part he says, of social issues. Katz said Mike Stenhouse, CEO of the think tank, found there to be a need, in the local media landscape, for news covering local policy and politics collected and written with the eye of somebody who has a free-…

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Just Another Taxpayer

2:25 pm on Thursday, April 5, 2012

Jim L, what are you talking about? Your post doesn't make any sense.   more ›