No Shield Against the Results of Public Speech
So the other day I received this email shortly after an article I wrote appeared in RI Future (I’ve only edited it due to some sentence breaks: Sam; Publishing the contents of the OP discussion list serve on -line with links at RI Future blog is a violation of our safety/security policies. Of course, anyone is free [...]
Three Local Authors, RI Futurists Present At Netroots
Three Rhode Island progressive authors will “battle it out” at Netroots Nation in what is being billed as “an idea free-for-all.” The meeting of the minds will take place at 2 p.m. on Thursday in the fifth floor Rotunda of the Convention Center. Not only are all three published by Light Publications – billed as [...]
Help RI Future Succeed: Donate Now!
To date, my new business plan for RI Future has consisted mostly of me wearing sweaters on cold nights and eating a lot of peanut butter and bread for meals. But this state’s only source of progressive news and information now needs a new computer. Since our readership is growing just as rapidly as the [...]
Matt Jerzyk and the Early Days of RI Future
The Providence Phoenix has given RI Future great press as of late. Last week, the profiled me as the new owner of this progressive news website and this week they profile Matt Jerzyk, a senior policy adviser to Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and the founding father of RI Future whom they dub the state’s “blogfather.” [...]
Local Hero: PVD Phoenix Recognizes Plain, RI Future
The Providence Phoenix wrote a really nice article about me and RI Future this week for its annual “Local Heroes” feature, and I thought it was worth sharing with you all, our loyal readers. Phoenix editor David Scharfenberg picked up on a really important point, I think, namely that, in RI Future is pretty much [...]
Popular Proposal on Smith Hill: Tax Equity Bills
Add Rep. Scott Guthrie, D – Coventry, to the list of legislators hoping to find additional revenue for the state through an increase in income taxes on Rhode Island’s richest residents. “By instituting a fourth tax bracket we could solve many of our immediate budget problems, the ones that include deciding if we should cut [...]
Darth Flanders Sets Sights on CF Mayoral Office
It turns out there’s at least one more job Central Falls receiver Bob “Lord of the Pink Slip” Flanders would like to eliminate from the financially struggling city: mayor. As if temporarily eliminating democracy from Central Falls wasn’t enough, now he wants to permanently eliminate democratically elected mayors and replace the position with an appointed [...]
The new owner/editor of Rhode Island’s Future
Fresh off a redesign of our site, Rhode Island’s Future has a new owner/editor now, too. It’s me! Some of you may know me from my stint as the digital reporter/blogger for WPRO. I know it isn’t the most common career path to go from a right-leaning radio station to leftist-trumpeting website, so allow me [...]
Hear About the New and Improved RI Future Tonight at 6:15 PM: Sonic Watermelons on Brown Student and Community Radio
Rhode Island’s Future, which was once RI’s number 1 political blog, has relaunched and re-entered the state’s blogosphere (with new voices including mine). Learn more today when Brian Hull visits and takes on six questions starting at 6:15 PM. It’s all part of Sonic Watermelons on BSR (Brown Student and Community Radio), a show I [...]
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