Education
If mainstream media analysts and college professors weren’t overwhelmingly true believers of the Left, they could find fertile ground for analysis and lessons in the interaction of media, labor unions, and parents when it comes to Rhode Island schools. Case study 1 comes in the form of an article by Alexa Gagosz of the Boston Globe,…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the madness permeating our state.
John DePetro and Justin Katz find evidence of the missing ingredient in RI politics everywhere.
Perhaps my favorite moment in all of music ever comes in the last movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The music is a bouncy march, and in the libretto, the singers are proclaiming an intent to take paradise by storm, like “a victor.” The mood changes suddenly, however, and I’ve always thought it a deliberate statement…
John DePetro and Justin Katz pick apart the false image the establishment presents of the Ocean State.
At the moment, it appears to be simply talk, but this is a concerning idea for Democrat Rhode Island Senate President Dominick Ruggerio to float: Ruggerio floated an outside-the-box idea for the state takeover of Providence schools: He wants to work with the Rhode Island Foundation, the state’s largest philanthropic organization, to see if it…
As readers have surely observed, I’m doing an end-of-year cleanout of my bookmarked links. Oddly, after a news search on Google and Bing, I’m not seeing any local coverage of this story, reported in the Washington Examiner in August, at all. Is that correct? Nicole Solas and the Goldwater Institute filed the lawsuit against the South Kingstown…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the contribution of politicians and the media to the most pressing issues of the day.
A peculiar aspect of the mental abuse promulgated by progressives in Rhode Island (and the labor union activists who control them and the state) is the predicament in which they forbid honest discussion about issues like school reform, thus condemning students to substandard education, while casting aspersions at those who seek better for their own…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss several ways insider Democrats (especially McKee) are finding themselves herded by their constituencies.