Justin Katz
John DePetro and Justin Katz check in on Rhode Island politics in advance of the primary election.
The core difference of an alternative view for Rhode Island governance involves a different vision for what it means to balance cooperation and individual liberty.
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the many ways government is failing in Rhode Island and beyond.
Today the most prominent themes among the flotsam on RI Twitter are hagiographic tweets about labor unions and reports about failing infrastructure in the Providence area with respect to water management. Folks, thank the unions for the flooding, because the expense they’ve imposed on infrastructure in Rhode Island is largely to blame. Ignoring this reality…
… if you see people citing the strange flash flooding in the Providence area and Rt. 95 as evidence of “climate change,” ask them whether the blame mightn’t more reasonably land on government officials’ poor management of the infrastructure under their authority.
The Rhode Island Saga, Post 2 When people begin thinking in a deliberate way about how to turn their ideas, capital, and effort into businesses (which they sometimes get around to years after they’ve started operations), I put the process in terms of a story. The hero of the story is, obviously, the person or…
The Rhode Island Saga, Post 1 Somehow, I’d naively believed that my ridiculously busy summer would cool as the children returned to school and I overcame a few large projects. New content from me on Anchor Rising has certainly been lacking, and I apologize for that, but more has simply not been possible. To recap:…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the harm of a political system so monolithic those who disagree are outcasts.
Although families and individuals who can show a direct link to harm by a specific government entity should, of course, have recourse, the idea that a city, state, or country should broadly atone for the sins of the people who used to live there is wrong-headed even in concept — more so in a churning,…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the ways in which Rhode Island politics encourage or discourage candidates.