Rhode Island Politics
John DePetro and Justin Katz highlight some unspeakable stories in RI.
News that the Rhode Island Republican Party is struggling to hit the qualification requirements to place any presidential candidates on the primary ballot points to a deep problem in our state’s political landscape. This is true even if we put to the side (for now) rumors that some large number of signatures were inexplicably invalidated.…
John DePetro and Justin Katz detail gaps in political awareness in RI.
John DePetro and I discussed this a few weeks ago, but the topic is worth a short, written note, too, because the vignette presents too perfect a lesson: While tens of thousands of Rhode Islanders were stuck in traffic for upwards of three to four hours, Governor Dan McKee was attending a political fundraiser for…
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.
Nobody on your political bench can do much better than what you’re seeing now. Democracy has produced the government you actually wanted for so long that the bill is coming due. I wrote about the “Four Horsemen of Rhode Island’s Apocalypse” 15 years ago, and the situation’s only gotten worse as people not in the…
Mainstream ignorance of Rhode Island’s political opposition is a warning sign of an unhealthy and surreal political environment.
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the deteriorating civic structure of Rhode Island.
Excellent work by Jim Hummel of the Hummel Report with this investigative report, published on the front page of yesterday’s Providence Journal, pertaining to a state mandate that 25% of its vehicles be electric; i.e., zero emission. The goal was to make one quarter of the state’s light duty vehicle fleet EV’s by 2025. So…