Rhode Island Politics
Richard August and union organizer Patrick Crowley discuss legislation and unions’ power as a special interest.
In China, the Communist Party has implemented and is continually expanding a social credit system that seeks to use economic opportunities and restrictions to reward behavior the party likes and punish those who do things it doesn’t. The system affects where people can live, how easily they can access credit, the speed of their Internet…
John DePetro and Justin Katz talk about Rhode Island politicians’ battle against the need for change in what they do and how they run.
Libertarian Party of RI Chairman Billy Hunt discusses issues and his campaign with Richard August
John DePetro and Justin Katz take on the recent craziness of RI politics.
The recently released video promoting Republican Ashley Kalus’s campaign for governor provides reason to think she’s got some real opportunities and exposes some of the risks her campaign faces: On the risk side, her references to bringing policies from specific other states is the sort of thing that rubs provincial Rhode Islanders the wrong…
John DePetro (now back in the states) and Justin Katz pick RI politics back up with missing a step.
When Bill Felkner introduced me to Republican state Senator Frank Maher on the back steps of the State House, I was still new enough to politics-in-the-flesh to think he was a representative sample of elected officials. “He’s one of the good guys,” Bill told me, and he was right. On another occasion, not long after,…
John DePetro and Justin Katz review shifts in the electoral landscape of the Ocean State.
John and Justin discuss high-profile political races, threats to RI freedoms, and the possibility of arson.