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Right-wingers are complaining about this video from the Rhode Island Foundation. Big surprise. By Will Collette   To watch this video on ...

Conservative activist group RI Taxpayers ceases operation By  Steve Ahlquist  in Rhode Island’s Future with added notes from Will Collett...

Rhode Island’s leading conservative political action group reports that it spends almost NO MONEY on political action By Will Collette ...

Our DINO Treasurer to receive award for pension cuts Raimondo fires up the crowd at an anti-state worker rally By Will Collette I liked ...

More on Chariho car crash, RI census numbers and President Obama's "tax on Christmas" By Will Collette Chariho student stil...

Rhode Island political groups on the far-right-wing fringe seem to be undergoing a kind of traumatic breakdown . Some signs o...

RISC: Show me a school teacher and I'll show you a bomb-throwing anarchist There is a remarkable story in today’s Westerly Sun –...

This has been a really bad day for the Ocean State Policy Research Institute (OSPRI). First, GoLocalProv ran a scoop that OSPRI is going out...

GoLocalProv.com had the scoop this morning that the Ocean State Policy Research Group has, as GoLocal put it, "imploded" and will...

$59.99 from Amazon.com There was a flurry of angry comments over a  Progressive Charlestown article I wrote that showed board interlocks...

Harry Staley, chair of the RI Statewide Coalition (RISC), left a strongly worded comment on my article about false information in the latest...

The Providence Journal's Politifacts calls OSPRI out for lying in one of their high-profile reports. This is the second time this year t...

Another Update: a federal appeals court decision allowed the NFL owners to reestablish their "lock-out" of the players on last nig...

Oh boy, there are going to be some angry people over at the RI Stateline Coalition (RISC) office. That's over at 3949 Old Post Road here...

Circle the Wagons! Over the next several weeks, watch the Charlestown Citizens Alliance and RISC go berserk over a vote by the US Senate In...

Blame Ronald Reagan. The Gipper popularized the idea that all taxes are evil and sold us “ Supply-Side Economics ,” the idea that the more w...

Now that the excitement of International Talk Like William Shatner Day is over, we're back to focusing on dull and boring numbers. Not ...

In the National Journal's annual poll, our own Senator Sheldon Whitehouse ranked #1 most liberal (though he's in a 9-way tie with ot...

Last month, the Ocean State Policy Research Institute (OSPRI) issued a bombshell report claiming that rich Rhode Islanders were leaving in ...

Despite our budget woes, intolerable unemployment, runaway fuel oil costs and deteriorating infrastructure, it's great to see our lawmak...