Economy
John DePetro and Justin Katz highlight the constant sense of political corruption in Rhode Island.
John DePetro and Justin Katz review signs of things going wrong in the Ocean State.
John DePetro and Justin Katz wonder where the will for public service has gone.
John DePetro and Justin Katz review some of the ways in which Rhode Island’s priorities are out of whack.
Following the determination in April that the Washington Bridge eastbound was becoming “considerably more sensitive” (gulp), RIDOT contracted to install a new, combined structural health monitoring and vehicle weigh-in-motion program on/between the Washington Bridge and the Iway (Providence River Bridge). In May, RIDOT entered into a five year “sole source” – i.e., no RFP –…
John DePetro and Justin Katz check in on politics in RI.
As I understand it, RealPage offers landlords software for renting out and managing their properties. Like other such software across industries, it uses automation and analytics to help its clients conceptualize their assets and their businesses and squeeze out inefficiencies. Among those services is an algorithm that uses local real estate data, including from its…
Although it feels as if genuine policy debates have receded into the background in Rhode Island, reviving them may help correct the corrosion spreading throughout our civic house. Corporate tax incentives, for example, are an area in which conservatives and progressives in Rhode Island tend to agree on the binary “yes/no” question, raising the possibility…
I mean the title of this post in the sense both that progressivism/socialism ignores human nature and that it pretends people aren’t human. Consider: The underlying assumption appears to be that producers will simply produce because they are producers. Human beings don’t fall into nice progressive categories. We make decisions and change our status, and…
Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee tweets yet another area in which Democrats manipulate language to insinuate ideology: A grant from a government agency to another government agency is not “momentum.” Momentum suggests that the entity or project is moving on its own. Government subsidies are pushes… force. Democrats’ language is (deliberately) manipulative and always to…