Justin Katz
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the prospects for the Ocean State after a full Republican sweep in D.C.
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…
Mark Steyn’s daily pre-election column is vintage Steyn today. But in Botswana everyone voted on Wednesday, the last up-country results came in on Thursday, the ruling party conceded and the new guy was sworn in on Friday. That’s a normal election in a normal country. Meanwhile, back in the greatest country in the history of…
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.