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This incident, highlighted by John DePetro, is a few weeks old, at this point, but it’s worth noting nonetheless. Democrat Governor Dan McKee and Democrat East Providence Mayor Bob DaSilva were supposed to meet with businesses affected by the Washington Bridge closure. DaSilva has been adamant that people should not avoid his city out of…
John DePetro and Justin Katz review the latest way government officials and journalists put our state on the wrong track.
John DePetro and Justin Katz explore who can expect days of reckoning in Rhode Island.
John DePetro and Justin Katz explore various subjects about which journalists aren’t free to be clear.
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the ways in which Rhode Island’s political elites distract and mislead the public.
The Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity has called for the removal of Rhode Island Education Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green. They make their case here. I echo their call. During her tenure, Education Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green has failed to implement successful education reforms. She has instead prioritized questionable, experimental, non-education initiatives in Rhode Island’s K-12…
I’m a little slow with this, but I still want to chime in on how telling this is: It’s never a good sign when politicians find themselves explaining to constituents why they (the People) are exaggerating the difficulties they (the politicians) are causing them with unarguably incompetence, but it’s so, so emblematic of RI government.…
John DePetro and Justin Katz trace the disconnect between what Rhode Island needs and what its politicians keep supplying.
John DePetro and Justin Katz lament the lack of focus on the basics in RI government and media.
This is how appeals to the Ethics Commission often end, these days: From personal experience, I can testify that the Ethics Commission combines the gradual accretion of ethical allowances with the possibility that the commission will completely disregard its precedence to suit its preferences of the moment. Thus, it tends toward increasing permissiveness with a…