This New England

-- Photo by CHARLES PINNING

No, this isn't a setup for a joke about taxpayers as state legislatures adjourn. It's SVF Foundation's Annual Visitors Day, June 6, 2009, in Newport, R.I. Now give those poor animals wetsuits!

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Project Laundry List has declared a "clothesline emergency, '' reports the Associated Press. The outfit, which urges people to use clothelines instead of electric dryers to save energy, says it has been too cloudy and rainy to dry stuff outside on most days. They recommend indoor drying racks.

To deal with the wet weather, Project Laundry List is asking people to use indoor drying racks. Or head to a coin-operated laundromats because they tend to use natural gas.
And waste gasoline driving there?

Oh, well.

The dimmest new England June since thus endeth with a drizzle.

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The last two greyhound racing tracks in New Hampshire, at Seabrook and Belmont, have won permission from the state to drop the loss-leading activity, even as the Rhode Island's legislature tries to force Twin River, the slots palace, to keep their dogs racing.

That's even though Twin River is in bankruptcy protection and is trying to get out of the mandatory greyhound boondoggle.

But Rhode Island's greyhound kennels have powerful political supporters, who trump the state's practical fiscal concerns.

This might be taken as one small hint of why the Granite State's economy tends to grow at a brisk rate over the years while the Ocean State's treads water, in between sinking spells.

 Tags  Belmont clothesline emergency greyhounds Seabrook Twin River

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