Providence
John DePetro and Justin Katz address the question insiders don’t seem to ask.
John DePetro and Justin Katz evaluate the landscape for Democrat RI.
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss ways in which corruption thrives without competitive elections.
John DePetro and Justin Katz check in on politics in RI.
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the relevance of local, state, and national political news.
In the heat of the battle, political controversies over yard signs can become an almost comedic proxy for heated disagreements. I’ve seen people in the heat of a busy campaign drop everything to do battle with people stealing the yard signs of the other side or placing their own signs on property where they aren’t…
I mean, look at this: The scores were abysmal to start; the goals were obviously fictitious when considered in the absence of a practical plan; and the final results are offensively bad. If these results aren’t causing outrage, it’s because nobody in the Democrat establishment or news media wants to address the underlying problems, which…
John DePetro and Justin Katz talk about who benefits (and who doesn’t) from recent items in the news.
When Elorza was mayor, it seemed embarrassing for him to take a public event as an opportunity to confront McKee, but his recent comments about public education in Providence, which formed the basis for the confrontation, suggest his emotions were well placed and genuine: “What we have now is a system that locks in place…
I don’t want to make too much of it, but something seems off to me about Bill Bartholomew’s crusade against Providence businesses’ commandeering parking spaces to use for use in their valet parking service. (I assume that means they’re the spaces right in front of the businesses, allowing cars to pull in and then be…