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An underappreciated risk laps at the legs of our advanced knowledge. When people didn’t know why things were happening in the world around them or how to predict change, they just dealt with them. They invested some energy in a relationship with gods in the hope of exerting some control on their environments, but mostly,…
When discussing public policy, responsible politicians, journalists, and members of the public should never separate the issues of energy and the environment. They are a single, nuanced, and extremely complicated issue. Absent this imperative, Democrat Governor Dan McKee feels free to brag about his environmental policy thus … “Over last 16 months my administration has…
Stories like this, from WPRI’s Shannon Hegy, too easily slip under the radar without anybody’s pointing out what, specifically, is happening: [Cranston Park View Middle School] STEM Coordinator Caitlyn Blankenship tells 12 News she’s seen firsthand the evidence of key skills lost during the pandemic in middle schoolers, who are struggling to problem solve, work…
Actually, it’s worse than that. Rhode Island Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse wants an American dictator who actively harms our country for the benefit of foreign countries that are mostly hostile to us. Objectively, the malice or mania necessary for a privileged American to make such declarations as the Wall Street Journal describes is something of…
Anchor Rising received information that a Brown University student had been hospitalized in March, 2021 with myopericarditis after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. This raised a couple of important matters regarding Brown University’s strict vaccine mandate on students, staff and professors. Has the university been tracking adverse COVID-19 vaccine effects, including among the student body? If…
We’ve reached the point in the Northeast that the leaders of Democrat-run states seem to be searching for ways to trample multiple Constitutional rights with a single policy. Consider this new law in New York: Under the law, applicants have to provide local officials with a list of current and former social media accounts from…
Anchor Rising has obtained from the Rhode Island State Police the Arrest Record of Jeann Lugo pertaining to the June 24 melee at the State House. Click here to view it. A couple of interesting items from the record: > The last page includes a full description of the events that led up to Jeann…
It’s nice of Tiverton gas station owner George Alzaibak to take 50-cents per gallon out of his own pocket and give it to drivers, although one could argue that he’ll be able to write it off as a marketing expense. However, before joining the pop-radio show hosts in calling for a revolution in his image,…
After a week of national coverage, with Tucker Carlson jokingly lauding her honesty and encouraging the Democrat Party to embrace her more fully, most Rhode Islanders who pay any attention to the news have probably heard about Tiara Mack’s twerking performance. Even the local media had to take some notice, at least to the extent…
On the periodic occasions that one sees headlines in Rhode Island about improving education, the focus is almost invariably money, whether the topic is an adjustment to the state funding formula or about a “right to an education,” by which advocates ultimately mean a right to more tax dollars. But take a look at the…