This year is an election year and all eyes are on R.I. House Speaker Joe Shekarchi as voters wait to hear if he’ll run for governor.

The owner of Frog & Toad said they raised $12,000 for a student emergency support fund to help those affected by the shooting.

@whitehouse.senate.gov to roast DC elite at Gridiron dinner -- Rhode Map by @danmcgowan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/03/m...

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

Watch via YouTube here or if you prefer TV, check out One on One every Friday at 7:30 pm/10:30 am Sunday on @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social (FKA Rhode Island PBS)

@reed.senate.gov, ranking Dem on Armed Services, blasts Hegseth for telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules: “This ongoing effort to censor the Pentagon press corps is affront to the US military’s proud tradition of accountability and to the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment."

King Tides are the highest tides of the year, which happen when the sun, moon, and Earth align just right, causing an extra-strong gravitational pull.

Monday at 5 p.m. - Remembering a legend: How Rhode Islanders are keeping John Pastore's legacy alive.

RI Ethics Commission closes lobbyist ‘loophole’ while raising limit on gifts to public officials to $50. @commoncauseri.bsky.social is disappointed in higher gift limit but hails “important step” stemming from controversy over McKee admin contract with ILO Group www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/30/m...

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thepublicsradio.org/local/butler... via @lynnarditi.bsky.social

AG UPDATE: Rep Robert Craven (D-North Kingstown) tells me he plans his campaign announcement for the week of Sept 22

The Brown & Sharpe strike, which began in 1981. The picket lines stayed up for years, and the strike didn't technically end until the mid to late 1990s. I believe by some measures it's considered the longest strike in U.S. history.

What's the longest strike in RI history?

Providence’s Bonded Vault robbery, 50 years later -- Rhode Map by @danmcgowan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/m...

Latest RI jobs report

GOP Texas map has Austin residents sharing district with rural Texans 300 miles away - ABC News

Rumors have been flying for weeks that Stefan Pryor is returning as RI Commerce secretary. He didn't respond to my inquiry in late July and gov's office had no comment around the same time

New: Rhode Island’s unemployment rate rose again last quarter, as the state’s economy showed “concerning trends” across key indicators, according to a new briefing released Wednesday. Two years ago, the rate was 2.7 percent. Last quarter, it hit 4.9 percent. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/m...

NEW: After months of delays, R.I.-based Edesia Nutrition moves quickly to ship food to Africa as US government restarts aid www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/m...

Vast supplies of U.S. aid remain stranded, despite State Department promises - The Washington Post

Trump fires labor statistics head, prompting concerns about data - Bloomberg

A Rhode Island federal judge presiding over lawsuits against the Trump Administration speaks out about the death threats he's received. ‪@timwhiteri.bsky.social‬ has more of what Judge John McConnell said during a panel discussion tonight at 5.

Public support erodes as ICE targets noncriminal immigrants - Miami Herald

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@whitehouse.senate.gov blasts Republican rescission package

A bill to strip federal funding for PBS and NPR just passed the Senate. What happens next? - CNN

‘Daily Show’ Hits Donald Trump With Decades of Jeffrey Epstein Receipts - The Daily Beast

Back on the beat www.youtube.com/watch?v=vimZ...

"Everyone thinks firefighters are heroes, and they are just designed to be able to deal with anything, but that's not the case," Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon said. Story: https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/se-mass/crews-battling-fire-at-assisted-living-facility-in-fall-river/

I'd say it's been haunting *us* -- via January 6th, soaring measles cases, attacks on the press and scientists, and countless other consequences of conspiracy-theory mongering from DJT -- for quite a while.

A few snaps from Malta

Political Scene: There's only one RI General Assembly race this year, the Senate District 4 special election tomorrow. See where the candidates stand on taxes, guns, RIPTA, hospital bailouts and RIPTA. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

The NewYorker features @senwhitehouse.bsky.social in a piece by @elizkolbert.bsky.social -- Sheldon Whitehouse’s Three-Hundredth Climate Warning: The Senator’s wake-up calls about government inaction take on a new urgency in Trump 2.0.

Young Men Who Elected Trump Just Realized They Screwed Up - The Daily Beast