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
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 m
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
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 especially bad. “If we don’t see a dra
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
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 it means nothing. I&#
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
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 strike would become t