Justin Katz
John DePetro and Justin Katz highlight the constant sense of political corruption in Rhode Island.
I’ve fallen way behind, so this tweet from Ken Block is a couple months old, but its content is (unfortunately) timeless in Rhode Island: The picture being painted for me by over ten current and former DOT employees is a toxically managed organization where who you know is far more important than how you do…
John DePetro and Justin Katz review signs of things going wrong in the Ocean State.
John DePetro and Justin Katz follow local stories’ thread of RI’s obvious need for political competition.
I realized this when watching Democrats’ repeated proclamations about jobs numbers during the Obama years only to see those numbers quietly revised the following month, almost always with the revision making touted jobs disappear, rather than quiet corrections representing improvements. Now, it seems crime data has the same partisan infection. All year, we’ve been hearing…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss ways in which corruption thrives without competitive elections.
John DePetro and Justin Katz wonder where the will for public service has gone.
The news cycle flows by so quickly, lately, that political actors and activists are learning it’s sometimes best to just keep your head down and let the controversy of the day join the rest of the noise tomorrow. Nonetheless, I think there’s something worth noting in the now-passed story about Russia funding some conservative commentators.…
John DePetro and Justin Katz review some of the ways in which Rhode Island’s priorities are out of whack.
I find it ominous that one of my children’s dentist just cancelled an appointment for tomorrow due to short staffing. RI’s medical infrastructure feels a bit like we could get the equivalent of an emergency Washington Bridge closure at any time. Or maybe we’ve been getting them, but the people who run the state are…