Adventures in Town Government
Critical race theory is all the rage, and John DePetro and Justin Katz worry about RI government efforts to stoke it into conflict.
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss how everything is becoming political narrative, not serving and protecting the people, in Rhode Island.
More and more, it appears that the way a story is covered by the media and addressed by government officials depends most on the skin color of the people involved, as John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss.
Something in a Richard Fernandez essay on PJ Media feels very appropriate to Rhode Island’s current situation. He writes of the ways in which Western populations have attempted to ensure that people in power make decisions with the good of the people in mind, rather than the good of the powerful, and notes various ways in…
The RIRepublicans Twitter account tweeted out the picture of the Narragansett Times from today used as the featured image for this post. The South Kingstown school committee chair, Emily Cummiskey, the school superintendent, Linda Savastano, and the controversial National Education Association organizer who was on the school committee have all resigned. These are added to the…
It’s great news that Nicole Solas is getting some heavy-duty legal support in her efforts as an engaged resident of South Kingstown. William Jacobson reports for Legal Insurrection: Now Solas has some high-powered legal help. The Goldwater Institute, which has a very strong litigation wing, will be representing Solas according to a press release issued today…
From a U.S. Senator to the news media to a local school committee, Rhode Islanders’ trust is slipping, but John DePetro and Justin Katz aren’t sure it’s enough to bring change.
South Kingstown has been receiving national attention recently based on multiple ways in which its school committee and superintendent have been crossing lines of propriety, but related trends bear watching across Rhode Island. Then-Governor Gina Raimondo’s COVID-19 emergency declaration, which now-Governor Daniel McKee has refused to remove, didn’t only restrict the public’s freedom, but also increased…
A major theme currently peppering my news feed from across the country is suburban parents being arrested while speaking out at school committee meetings. John DePetro has video of one such man, Jeremy Palmer, at a school committee meeting in the Chariho district. Another parent in that district, Kelly Sullivan, describes the multiracial opposition to…
Watching local government is a great way to learn how politics really works and to observe how representative democracy can deteriorate into an exercise of raw power.
