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What Can’t Brown Do for You?
Was with Occupy Providence to the City Council meeting on Thursday night and the City Council distributed the following flier about how the wealthy Brown University refuses to pay their fair share in...
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RI Progress Report: URI Profs File Suit, West Warwick, Tar Heels on Marriage...
URI professors have filed a lawsuit against the state saying the Board of Governors for Higher Education broke the law when they declined to ratify a contract they had already agreed to after Gov....
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Politico Shows Why RI Future Matters
So, Politico’s Steve Friess published a story today about a phenomenon about the Gemma campaign I pointed out on March 20th. I’ve sworn off on saying anything more about Mr. Gemma, I’ll let other...
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Progress Report: Plastic Bag Ban in Barrington; Projo on Gemma, Social...
Downtown Providence from the Providence River. (Photo by Bob Plain) When the American autopsy is finalized, it could turn out that the little things finally nail our culture’s coffin shut. Mr. Coffee...
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Bad Time to Announce A Free-To-Play Copernicus
38 Studios’ logo, (via Wikipedia) Thanks to WPRI.com reporter Ted Nesi’s Twitter pontifications, we’ve learned from Boston Magazine‘s Jason Schwartz that 38 Studios had planned to release their...
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Gemma-Cicilline Debate: The Crowd Has No Rules
Rep. David Cicilline cracks a smile as he takes questions from the press. This debate was a pissing-match. But not between the candidates. Rather, their supporters, gathered together in a room,...
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Poor Edumacation In CD1 Democratic Debate
Education. We spend a lot of time arguing about this. Wave after wave of education reformer has appeared, each with their own unique (and often uniquely wrong) method of “solving” education. And boy,...
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Progress Report: For, and Against, Fox; Patch on Walmart; Warren for Banking;...
George Nee and Gordon Fox get reacquainted with each other on election night. (Photo by Bob Plain) There’s an interesting – and small – mix of conservatives, moderates and populists who seemingly...
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Is Ted Nesi Biased on Pension Reform?
Ted Nesi is easily the most knowledgeable and well-respected local reporter on the pension beat. As such, it’s not easy to call him out for what I think is some bias in his pension reporting as of...
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Two Teds On Pension Reform Beat
Their named may be similar but their coverage of Gina Raimondo is not. New Ted (Siedle, of Forbes) wrote a post on Thursday saying Raimondo is recklessly investing Rhode Island’s pension fund. Old Ted...
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Television, internet, radio up as main news sources
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press released the chart at right detailing the main sources people get their news from, as part of a larger overview of American attitudes towards news...
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The desire to return to Bubblenomics, and why that’s a bad idea
Our own Frymaster made a good point in the comments of Ted Nesi’s blog: …it’s unlikely that RI – like Nevada which shares our fate – will recover back to those levels [of pre-recession economic...
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Progressive gut check
Rhode Island’s progressive movement is today in shambles, ripped apart by the stunning resurgence of the conservative faction of the so-called Democratic Party. It is now at the point that alleged...
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Is Jorge Elorza an atheist?
Providence mayoral candidate Jorge Elorza was a law professor at Roger Williams University when he wrote his 2010 University of Pittsburgh Law Review article “Secularism and the Constitution: Can...
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Enviro group support for Burrillville power plant cited by Whitehouse does...
Senator Whitehouse supports the new gas powered energy plant in Burrillville, but the support he cites for his position from environmental groups doesn’t exist. In a short interview with Ted Nesi,...
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FANG confronts Whitehouse over his Invenergy support
As Senator Sheldon Whitehouse stood up to speak to a room packed with concerned environmentalists and sustainability stakeholders at the #ResilientPVD Sustainability Workshops, held in the Providence...
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CNBC’s state rankings flawed and anti-middle class
From the headlines, you would think that CNBC is the gold standard economic authority. After the cable news network released its 10th annual “America’s Top States for Business 2016” listing, in which...
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Every environmental group in RI opposed to Invenergy power plant
Mary Pendergast Every environmental group in Rhode Island, every single member organization of the the Environmental Council of Rhode Island (ECRI), is formally opposed to the construction of...
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Ward 3 candidate forum provides insight into candidate priorities
Less than two weeks after the un-debate, four of the five candidates who qualified for the ballot in the race to be the Ward 3 city councilor from Providence once again took the stage, this time to...
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Senate District 13: 6 candidates square off at Jane Pickens in Newport
David Allard, Dawn Euer, John Florez, David Hanos, Kimberly Ripoli, Michael Smith (left to right) In the first real candidate forum in Senate District 13, six of the seven candidates answered questions...
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