General Assembly
Alex Cannon is the Republican candidate in the race for the open Rhode Island Senate seat representing the East Side of Providence, but progressive journalist Steve Ahlquist conducted a lengthy, interesting, and fair interview with him on Uprise RI. Cannon, who hails from Las Vegas, Nevada, and arrived in Rhode Island in 2017, describes himself as…
Literally. Here’s the headline of an interview they did with Jacobin, an explicitly socialist magazine: “Socialist Legislators Are Taking on Rhode Island’s Ultraconservative Democrats.” It shows you how frighteningly radical these people are that they say, apparently with a straight face, that Rhode Island’s leading Democrats are “ultraconservative.” Naturally, this is standard language for Bell, who…
Ray Rickman and Mike Stenhouse discuss Rickman’s experience and plans if he’s elected to the state Senate.
Yesterday, Patrick Anderson of the Providence Journal tweeted the picture used as the featured image in this post. As Anderson notes, the masking is entirely according to partisan lines. Unmasked (left to right) are Senators Jessica de la Cruz and Gordon Rogers and Representatives David Place and Brian Newberry. The follow-up comments are interesting, too. Far-left…
Representatives Julie Casimiro and Mike Chippendale join host Richard August for a review of the legislative session this past spring.
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the ways in which the movers and shakers in RI avoid things everybody knows.
The amazing thing, when government officials establish a religion, is that everything becomes clear and easy. Through a clerisy, their god (even if it is an undefined Great Progressive Spirit) tells them what is right and wrong, and they simply conform the law to those requirements. Anybody who believes differently has to put their beliefs…
Rick Moran writes for PJ Media: Manufacturing solar panels is a dirty business. Starting with the raw mineral quartz, the refining process produces a highly toxic substance, silicon tetrachloride, that some manufacturers simply end up dumping. Huge amounts of power and heat must be used to manufacture the photovoltaic cells. Since most solar cells in the…
The Left is pulling out the stops to prevent our state from understanding critical race theory and the degree to which racism is harming our residents.
Katherine Gregg reminds Rhode Islanders, via the Providence Journal, that representatives and senators in the state General Assembly get a raise when the country experiences inflation: On July 1, their annual salaries went up by $199.63, from $16,635.74. to $16,835.37 a year. (The House speaker and Senate president make double that amount.) And no, they did not…