To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

I'm not sure if interpreting the words, "request for information," as a common noun rather than a proper noun in this context seems incredulous or incompetent. It may be as simple a fix as defining the term in the statute, but for anyone familiar with government procurement, this is pretty absurd.

UBS opens with a Rhode Island angle.

The Rhode Island Coalition to End Homelessness's, 'About' section is tremendously hot garbage. Like, is this placeholder language that was never replaced? Are they just incompetent? With rent-seeking NGOs like this, it's no surprise it's not getting better.

The, "we're going to talk better than the people before us," is a terrible answer on pensioners.

Is that where you end up when you jump the shark?

The housing affordability commission meets today, "But Chippendale said he will be skipping the meeting in order to babysit his 2-month-old grandson." Sounds like a true believer in his caucus's analysis.

The following link leads to audits for every 2-year period since 2010. Plus dozens of other financial statements.

Just wait until he starts working quads! #RIs1stBillionaire

So much for developing that industry

Three known candidates, and my only real question is: Who am I going to write in?

Until someone reports otherwise, I'll just assume this is Leader Blazejewski's... family?

During some of the strongest macro periods, he proclaimed RI was in a, "growth recession," now, his neutral value is a strong performance because it captures volatility and he doesn't know where we're heading. Why does anyone take this man seriously?

Pawtucket has always been about so much more than the PawSox and Hasbro, despite outsiders portraying it that way. There are amazing and thriving companies everywhere, often hidden behind old mill walls, but doing big things.

👀👀👀 WJAR parent company buys non-license operations for rival ABC6 station rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/09/12/w...

For @markpatinkin.bsky.social, the cool thing about being a columnist is being able to be 50% accurate without any consequences. Later in the same story he touts this Guv's support of the soccer stadium, which is financed using Matiello's Pawsox bill.

Tell me the governor is terrified without telling me. Timing-wise, seems like a premature release. Suspect most people aren't far enough along to even notice.

Complaints about the "tax rate" for Rhode Island-based gambling belie understanding its structure. Typically taxes are the unproductive use of an assessment upon others' activities. Rhode Island's "tax" is what it keeps by being the operator.

Sooo... when journalists APRA stuff, do they need to specify the chats too, now that that medium is such a treasure trove?

When Brown health started taking over hospitals in Massachusetts, there was supposition if not outright discussion, about those higher rates saving the Rhode Island system. Apparently the numbers tell another story. More fire from @nancyklavin.bsky.social!

Logically consistent.

Financial literacy course should probably include a section on "spending $65k on some weird scam."

One of my customers had so much fun visiting the Map Center that he came back a few days later with a camera. He made this magnificent short documentary about my store, about me, and why I bother to do any of it at all. It's really lovely and I hope you watch it! youtu.be/Dj9uKpk3Idk?...

The Tidewater project wasn't, "going to," include this housing, it DID include it. Among the final acts of Pryor I as commerce secretary, w/ Wadensten chickening out, was to shift these resources to the stadium.

@johnmarion.bsky.social is killing it this week. Read the good word in PBN!

Wasn't the head of RIPEC the DOA director during the Raimondo administration when agencies were consistently overspending?

Good on @johnmarion.bsky.social for directing the Commissioners to the point! I don't remember Knight providing or submitting testimony for higher appropriations to the Publi Defender... so it just feels self-serving, not public service.

Unless you enforce it. If it cost people money, they'd figure it out pretty quick. ~his third month in office, the mayor told @kimkalunian.bsky.social that PPD had stopped ~300 drivers there. It mathed to roughly 8/day. Next time I drove that street, I counted 10 violations w/in < an hour.

*Chef's Kiss*

Seems like she mispronounced, "I'm."

Anyone else feel like there's only one answer to the question, 'was brining Pryor back a good move,' and it's losing 2:1?

Imagine, if in the smallest state in the union, when state officials needed local data, the first thing they did was pick up the phone 39 times & make a professional connection between governments.

In 49 other states this isn't a problem, in 1 it isn't specifically prohibited, but that's the crux of the problem. Things like this are exhausting.

10. Clarence King: 'Everybody should have mixed babies Black, white, brown, Asian, let's get racy Mix it up a little in the name of future blurred colored lines To define people by what's inside everybody's skin's praline And biracial, bipartisan, bisexuals Don't buy lies, buy organic vegetables'

Save now, pay later: Roger Williams and Fatima hospital buyer faces 19% increase in debt service on bonds rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/08/15/s...

Reminds me of @stephmachado.bsky.social's reporting on RI rape kits. There is no "backlog" if untested kits have no associated charges. That doesn't mean there aren't untested kits. Pro Publica's reporting from MD, shows serial rapists go uninvestigated when kits go untested this guy is 1.

Seems like a systemic issue in the state: someone has a good idea & one-time money; no one works to figure out how to pay for it long term.

"[A] former spokesman or Raimondo/McKee, [says] Pryor 'was there from inception to reality creating a thriving I-195 Innovation District w/ the Wexford/CIC building as a centerpiece.'" A spokesperson says that because it ignores the Chafee Administration smartly laying underground infrastructure &

Mayor Mitchell on Newsmakers throwing the Globe body blows on behalf of New Beige

@nancyklavin.bsky.social reports Pryor as a NY native; @waveelection.bsky.social has him as a CT native. Having professionals not be able to nail down benign details of someone who has been a very public figure suggests much about that person's ability to obfuscate & misdirect.

Call it a let down that the administration can't draw talent.

@nancyklavin.bsky.social on Behind the Story this week talking about a story we should all be concerned about: a municipality recently out of state financial oversight that can't follow its own books

Did the Finance chair know she was likely to step away? Is there any contingency funding in the budget to run a special election? What's that cost Providence?

End the Gaza hunger crisis now. And end the crazy talk about ethnically cleansing the Palestinians out of Gaza. Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons

Better hope the page ii typo isn't indicative of the quality of the analysis.

Rideshare scooters? Adoption of electric bicycles? People valuing time over money & taking uber or lyft directly to where they're going, as opposed to RIPTA's hub & spoke? Historic reputation w/people like me who RIPTA has consistently failed? I might use RIPTA if you paid me, but I don't know...

Right? How am I supposed to know how many pieces of Death by Chocolate Cake slices Brown can buy with all that money @danmcgowan.bsky.social?

Capitulation.

Dan McKee HAD the power to recommend funding. Unless he finds some brand new money & has a way to get it to RIPTA w/o passing it through a state agency which has no authorization to do so, he doesn't.

Please, please, make the recipe available to another brewery! That was an amazing beer.