Tag: rhode island
It’s a landmark number in the film series. Plus I’ve never really paid attention to Rhode Island in this thing. So let’s check out this 1921 urban booster film of the city. It’
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. S

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 every state
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 beli

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 is personal–while the f
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 a

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 good people in there, but the leadership in the state party ar
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
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