Adventures in Town Government
John DePetro and Justin Katz talk about inexplicable decisions being made in Rhode Island government and media.
North Kingstown Councilwoman Mary Brimer joins Richard August to discuss racism and critical race theory (CRT) in North Kingstown.
John DePetro and Justin Katz review multiple ways state and local government seem not to be acting as one would expect competent professionals to act.
John DePetro and Justin Katz take on unprecedented developments in RI government and politics.
Two Woonsocket residents are suing Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt with the help of the ACLU for deleting their posts on and blocking them from her Facebook page: Greg Duhamel said he was banned last November when he made a post challenging Woonsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt’s attempt to claim credit for the building of a skate park.…
Mairead McArdle has been writing about conservative areas around the country that have been trying to break away from their progressive municipalities, and today’s essay asks, “How Could Conservative Pockets Break Away From The Liberal Local Governments That Control Them?” McArdle directs readers to a summary of procedures collected by the Carl Vinson Institute of…
At the core of our very ability to call our system a “representative democracy” is that we write down rules by which we all must abide. New rules can be implemented and old rules can be repealed or amended, but the more fundamental it is, the more difficult it is to change. Thus, bureaucrats can…
John DePetro and Justin Katz talk about the politics of the day, with things that should be easy proving difficult and things that would have to be difficult being passed off as easy.
On Tiverton Fact Check, I’ve posted an update on efforts to block residents from putting budget proposals on the ballot of our financial town referendum. The upshot is that it’s not good. In the course of declining to intervene and force the Board of Canvassers to reverse its refusal to allow voters to consider other options…
The South Kingstown school department has provided Anchor Rising with a little bit more detail on the hiring of a PR firm to handle the matter of local mom Nicole Solas (and to criticize her): Then Chair and School Committee member Emily Cummiskey reached out to the District’s legal counsel, wanting to quickly respond to a…