In Depth
Relatively little on-paper economic pain from COVID-19 makes it feel as if we’re getting away with something, but the bill will arrive at some point.
Continuing Rhode Island’s approach to addressing its education catastrophe will only buy more time for special interests to avoid the pressure for change.
For this week’s conversation, John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the complete lack of will to fix education for Rhode Island kids or reduce abuse for Rhode Island taxpayers.
A special interest coalition advocates for “Revenue for Rhode Island” via a slick mailer with quite the set up and pitch.
For this week’s conversation, John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss Rhode Island progressives’ inability to come up with solutions for problems that their policies have created.
When a bunch of gang members already on the authorities’ radar engage in perhaps the largest mass shooting in Providence history with illegal guns two months after city police announce the end of their gang-member database, perhaps more gun control isn’t the missing ingredient.
The decision to vaccinate can be scary, but that’s not a reason to accept somebody’s analysis just because it makes it easier to decide against it.
Everything about the COVID response and vaccination pressure has been wrong, but that doesn’t mean being vaccinated isn’t the least risky option, including for those who feel the urgency to stop the erosions of our rights.
Why do advocates downplay the true face of child poverty in Rhode Island and its most-obvious cause?
The weekly conversation about politics between John DePetro and Justin Katz finds a common theme of some Rhode Islanders’ mattering more than others.