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I just finished the latest Politics This Week segment with John DePetro, and in the course of the live conversation, I made a point that came out not as I intended, and I owe House Minority Leader Michael Chippendale an apology. I was pointing out how advisors seem to keep Governor McKee away from negative…
This effort from Republican State Representative Mike Chippendale is worthwhile: Drawing attention to the mandates state and federal law impose on local school districts has the healthy effect of encouraging people to learn about education funding, generally, and rationalizing the budgets in this way should have broad electoral support. BUT this entirely misses the fundamental…
Maybe it’s just me, but X doesn’t appear to be working on my computer or phone. I was only looking for a moment of distraction, but the experience is a helpful reminder not to rely too heavily on a single platform for communication and information access.
Rhode Islanders should take legislation like this much more seriously than they do, because it exposes how little Democrat legislators respect our rights, understand the workings of those rights, and/or are willing to place our rights above their political ideology and interest groups: State Rep. Karen Alzate isn’t waiting for federal immigration raids in Rhode…
Something about this tweet from Bill Bartholomew is more striking than it should be: I’m not sure whether it’s better or worse if Bartholomew actually believes what he says or is just playing a role. The absolutely most negative interpretation that actually makes sense about the people Bartholomew dislikes is that they don’t care about you,…
One could pick apart on its own terms Nicholas Ferroni’s commentary suggesting that most states can’t be trusted to run their own education systems and “education is not an expense; it’s an investment”: For context, Ferroni is a teacher in New Jersey who calls himself an “activist” (apparently for left-wing social causes) and moonlights as…
The great DOGE Authority Panic of 2025 appears to have passed, but in case you’re still interested (and to have it searchable on this site for future reference), lawyer Tom Renz’s review of the legal basis for the Department of Government Efficiency is worth a read.
Here’s the Providence Journal headline: “Numbers show RI undocumented immigrants a small slice of those getting benefits. What we know.” Here’s one of the shocking facts that journalist Katherine Gregg did the work to uncover: Medicaid payments on behalf of those without Social Security numbers totaled $55.4 million last year, including the $16,106,050 paid for…
The fabricated nature of this tweet’s content is just one example: To be sure, that isn’t the most egregious example I’ve come across, but I particularly wanted to capture a statement relegated to the very end of the article, coming from one of only two local sources cited for the article, William Worthy, of Big…
At the risk of arriving late to the news cycle of a couple weeks ago on the hierarchies of love, I wanted to offer an adjustment to Matt Walsh’s perspective, with which I mostly agree: The point is well taken that it’s easier to love “people” in the abstract than to love particular people (particularly…