Justin Katz

A race starting line

Politics This Week with John DePetro: The General Election Kicks Off

By Justin Katz | September 19, 2022 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz review the primary and set up the general election.

Fascists are descending on Cranston Public Library.

By Justin Katz | September 19, 2022 |

The links are profuse and not worth culling, but on social media, progressive fascists are agitating to disrupt and have cancelled an event the Independent Women’s Forum is presenting at the Cranston Public Library tonight.  The library released a statement that states the legal facts, but perhaps with a bit too much hesitance for the…

Dan McKee scowls at Eva Mancuso on primary night

McKee has been to the crossroads.

By Justin Katz | September 16, 2022 |

Rhode Islanders got another glimpse of Dan McKee’s true character on election night, and they should be filled with fear… and pity.

A water drop and ripples

Apparently shipping illegal immigrants around the country secretly in the middle of the night is the way to do it.

By Justin Katz | September 15, 2022 |

Remember when nobody cared that the Biden administration was dropping off illegal immigrants across the country in the middle of the night, including in Rhode Island? You don’t have to look very hard to see that the Democrats and mainstream media are playing you.

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Politics This Week with John DePetro: In Advance of the Primary

By Justin Katz | September 13, 2022 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz check in on Rhode Island politics in advance of the primary election.

A blue eye and a green eye

Heroes have something new and different to offer.

By Justin Katz | September 9, 2022 |

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.

Workers clear 9/5/22 flood waters

Politics This Week with John DePetro: Clearing the State’s Drains

By Justin Katz | September 7, 2022 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the many ways government is failing in Rhode Island and beyond.

A water drop and ripples

It is a good reminder on Labor Day, though.

By Justin Katz | September 5, 2022 |

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…

A water drop and ripples

Just to head off the inevitable commentary…

By Justin Katz | September 5, 2022 |

… 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.

A cartoon cottage

The Rhode Island Saga needs a hero.

By Justin Katz | September 2, 2022 |

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…