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Johnston’s challenge gaining access to a neighborhood during emergencies exposes several problems of RI’s way of doing things.
John DePetro and Justin Katz review the ways in which RI’s self-appointed “coach” and self-presumed captains manipulate the “team” of Rhode Islanders.
John DePetro and Justin Katz go over the slow-rolling perpetual disaster of RI politics and government.
John DePetro and Justin Katz detail gaps in political awareness in RI.
John DePetro and Justin Katz review some of the inauspicious indicators of Rhode Island’s political scene going into the new year.
John DePetro and Justin Katz review the moments of clarity following the Washington Bridge fiasco.
You may remember that truck-only tolls were passed with dire statements about the condition of Rhode Island bridges. “People will die if we don’t get this new revenue stream to repair Rhode Island’s poor bridges” was repeatedly stated or heavily implied during the debate about and passage of the proposed new, legally quizzical, unnecessary toll…
John DePetro and Justin Katz challenge the common wisdom in RI government, media, and higher education.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports (Page 11) that as of the fourth quarter of 2022, Rhode Island has fifty dealerships that sell new cars. Note that this figure does not include dealerships selling new trucks, new buses, new motor homes, new motorcycles, et etera. Governor Dan McKee’s proposed 2024 budget, Page 158 of…
Current Rhode Island public school policy on transgender and gender nonconforming students was formally passed as a regulation in April 2018 by the Council on Elementary and Secondary Education and then-Education Commissioner Ken Wagner under the authority of the governor. Anchor Rising made the following inquiry by e-mail last month of the Rhode Island Council…
