This is the grave of Thomas Dorr. Born in 1805 in Providence, Dorr grew up in a wealthy family of the Industrial Revolution. His father was a big time textile manufacturer and had his own mill town. So Dorr had all the luxuries, for the...
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Rhode Island's incompetence in administering the vaccine is astounding and suggestive of larger problems with technocratic centrism. The above quote comes from this story. See, Rhode Island is merely last.
At this time of fighting police violence and reckoning with our racist past, it's worth noting that said past is not about the South, not exclusively nor primarily. It's about.
The other day, I noted how the argument that the environmentalists cost jobs in the Pacific Northwest timber industry was completely bogus. But it's not as if workers themselves don't believe it. And they aren't going to back down on that either because it provides...
Sure, interest rates are low. But we are about to enter into a horrifying housing crisis and millions of people lack work. In New England, it is likely to be.
As much as I dislike the governance of Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island's Wall Street Democratic governor, I think she has done a very good job on COVID-19. Some of this.
This post is a conversation between myself and Patrick Crowley, Secretary-Treasurer of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO and staffer for the National Education Association-Rhode Island, about organized labor and the response to COVID-19. EL: The first bailout provided at least some workers with $1200 per person....
Rhode Island basically has the moral rot of Mississippi, but no one talks about it because we vote for Democrats. But in this state, Democrat means "I want power." So.
Above: The Rhode Island Democratic Party As I've written on occasion in the past, the Rhode Island Democratic Party is a grotesque hive of scum and villainy. There are some.
I found this highly telling. Over the years, I've received thousands of letters from kids from every state in the nation, except for one! I'd love to change that. If you know someone who lives in #RhodeIsland, have them write me a letter at Smokey...
On October 18, 1981, the workers at Brown and Sharpe, one of the nation's largest machine tool companies, went on strike at its plant in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. This.
When people debate how bad their state Democratic Party is and they come up with answers such as Illinois and New York, I just laugh. Because Rhode Island, that's where.