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My Year With RI Future
February 14th is Valentine’s Day, but it’s also the day my first RI Future article “Beyond Occupy” was published a year ago. Since that article, 111 others were published, not including this one. A...
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Anchor Rising: Empty Land Being Disenfranchised
Rural areas were over-privileged and now they’re not, so now they’re disenfranchised. This seems to be the gist of Marc Comtois’ Anchor Rising post lamenting the rise of the one-person/one-vote system...
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Rhetoric: RI Can’t Do That Because Of Bad Economy
The State House in late November. (Photo by Bob Plain) One of the arguments being used by anti-marriage equality forces is the argument that we need to fix the economy first before we can focus on...
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The War On The Poor
According WPRI’s Tim White and Dan McGowan, 100% of December 2012′s electronic benefit transfer funds are being used at completely legal locations. In any budget anywhere, that would be cause for...
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Plea to Policymakers: Drive Down the Cost of Living
Hours to afford rent at minimum wage by state in 2012. (via NLIHC) The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has released its Out of Reach 2013 report, detailing the state of housing...
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The Value of Agency
A recent article in The Washington Post on the effects the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has on Woonsocket has once again placed the federal program in Rhode Island’s sights. Though...
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Celebrate Rhode Island, Support Calamari Bill
Sometimes, a state legislator has an idea that brings a smile to my face. And sometimes, that idea is ruthlessly mocked. So I think it’s high time I said something about H5654; better known as the...
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Breakdown In RI GOP
In case you haven’t heard, the election for Rhode Island Republican chair has turned into a mess. And let’s remember, this wasn’t a paid position or even a position of much influence or power. After...
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Chafeeshambles
Gov. Lincoln Chafee finds himself in trouble with the media again, but this time it’s not for keeping vague documents a secret from them. It’s for suggesting that they might have something to do with...
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2014 Election: More Important Than You Think
The State House in November. When the next gubernatorial inauguration takes place in January 2015, for preceding 30 years, a single Democratic governor will have reigned in Rhode Island for just 4...
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Occupy Providence Featured In The Sociological Quarterly
Mike McCarthy leads an Occupy Providence march in 2011. (Photo by Bob Plain) The Sociological Quarterly has an entire section devoted to the Occupy Movement in its Spring 2013 volume. You can read it...
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State Bank Idea Is Back (As A Bill This Time)
Photo courtesy of Governing Magazine, circa 2012. Kim Kalunian writes that Rep. Charlene Lima has introduced legislation, at the request of Keven McKenna, to create a state-owned bank in Rhode Island –...
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Man Arrested After 27 Years of Solitude, Burglarly
This is incredible. Christopher Thomas Knight went into the Maine woods in about 1986, two years after graduating high school, and wasn’t seen for 27 years. In that time, he committed over 1000...
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Cynicism warps view of Senate GOP’s SSM support
Last night a lengthy Twitter discussion erupted about the Senate Republican Caucus unanimously supporting marriage equality which is a first among legislative caucuses; according to the Human Rights...
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RI state of mind and misleading headlines
“Rhode Island Most Miserable State” said numerous articles, as Gallup released its latest polling for the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index on stress levels and enjoyment in various states. The...
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What ‘Vikings’ can show us about Rhode Island politics
The History Channel’s “Vikings” dramatizes the various sagas, chronicles, and skaldic poems about the Viking raider Ragnar Lodbrok into a weekly television show. It’s also the History Channel’s first...
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Celebrate Rhode Island, Support Calamari Bill
Sometimes, a state legislator has an idea that brings a smile to my face. And sometimes, that idea is ruthlessly mocked. So I think it’s high time I said something about H5654; better known as the...
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Breakdown In RI GOP
In case you haven’t heard, the election for Rhode Island Republican chair has turned into a mess. And let’s remember, this wasn’t a paid position or even a position of much influence or power. After...
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Chafeeshambles
Gov. Lincoln Chafee finds himself in trouble with the media again, but this time it’s not for keeping vague documents a secret from them. It’s for suggesting that they might have something to do with...
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2014 Election: More Important Than You Think
The State House in November. When the next gubernatorial inauguration takes place in January 2015, for preceding 30 years, a single Democratic governor will have reigned in Rhode Island for just 4...
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