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The Law Centre of the RI Center for Freedom and Prosperity has filed a complaint on behalf of a Rhode Island mother against a school district that guided her daughter toward “social transitioning,” hiding it from the mother along the way: According to the complaint, “Unknown to Plaintiff, her daughter (as an 8th-grader) began to…
A widely applicable truism about organizations — whether businesses or public schools — that systems prioritize that which they measure. The folly of this principle came to mind while reviewing the Division of Statewide Planning’s still-new Social Equity Data Platform. What you see, there, is a map of Rhode Island with some shaded overlays of…
Jody Baldwin Stone of Rhode Island asks a question of huge importance to the Constitutional wellbeing of the United States of America: RI Jurnos: Is it true that Judge McConnells daughter, Catherine McConnell, was appointed by Biden and is currently employed by The Department of Education? Did the judges order save his daughter’s job? 
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Charlie Kirk has an interesting business model. He goes where young adults congregate (presumably college campuses), sets up a booth, and has debates with whoever approaches his microphone. Then he posts the videos for clicks and (again, presumably) collects advertising revenue. In this video, he stumps a young woman on the issue of abortion. Kirk’s…
One sees people take positions of similar structure to Ken Block’s, here, on many issues, from immigration to finance to healthcare to science: One of humanity’s great advantages is that we can divide the labor of understanding. One person figures something out, and others can build on his or her conclusions without necessarily repeating all…
The Senate hearing on President-Elect Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense is now underway. Inasmuch as the objections to his nomination raised so far at the hearing are irrelevant to the vital mission of the United States military, I am bumping up my post of November 17. There has been a “Well…
This is not the biggest question pertaining to Rhode Island’s handling of the failed Washington Bridge – it is secondary, for example, to WHY the state had to offer a serious incentive for what would seem to be a juicy public contract, not to mention what Ken Block is in the process of turning up…
There is a Presidential popular vote chart getting a lot of attention out there that seems to show a big drop in Democratic votes from 2020 to 2024. However, as pointed out by Dan McLaughlin, I think people are getting over their skis before all of the data is in. I thought a picture showing…
While developing plans for the future, I’ve been reading about the history of American journalism, and an observation from the post-Revolution period has been worth more than a few underlines. Political parties always want dedicated media outlets, but media outlets dedicated to partisan politics never pay for themselves. Jefferson had to give a no-show State Department job…
Following the determination in April that the Washington Bridge eastbound was becoming “considerably more sensitive” (gulp), RIDOT contracted to install a new, combined structural health monitoring and vehicle weigh-in-motion program on/between the Washington Bridge and the Iway (Providence River Bridge). In May, RIDOT entered into a five year “sole source” – i.e., no RFP –…