DePetro, Carcieri, Healey in East Greenwich tonight
I saw my ideological nemesis and neighbor John DePetro on Main Street here in East Greenwich the other day. “What’s going on, John?” I said to him. To which he replied, “I have nothing to say to you.”...
View ArticleAlex and Ani: stop supporting ‘misogynistic’ John DePetro
A new anonymous Change.org campaign is asking Alex and Ani, the “lifestyle brand” that markets jewelry to young women and girls, to stop advertising on WPRO until “as long as habitual misogynist John...
View ArticlePodcast: Brett Smiley on why he wants to be mayor of Providence
“Providence is to Boston as Brooklyn is to Manhattan,” candidate-for-mayor Brett Smiley told Mark Gray and I in our new weekly podcast. “We need to participate in the Boston regional economy in a way...
View ArticleRIF Radio: Two shootings in PVD; hurtful words and the First Amendment;...
Or listen here. Wednesday Dec 18, 2013 North Kingstown, RI – Good morning, Ocean State. This is Bob Plain, editor and publisher of the RI Future blog podcasting to you from The Hideaway on the banks...
View ArticleTwo commercials: SNL spoofs CVS, Alex and Ani spoofs Main Street
Alex and Ani wasn’t the only Rhode Island company with a commercial on national television this weekend. The costume jewelry company paid more than $3 million for an ad during the Super Bowl while CVS...
View ArticleMark Patinkin picks bad example to depict workers’ rights
What’s a worse sin in mainstream media bias? Is it when a reporter offers an opinion in an otherwise so-called straight news piece, or is it when opinionators offer a skewed view of the state in order...
View ArticleThe monstrous philosophy at the core of Alex & Ani
Carolyn Rafaelian, founder of the jewelry company Alex & Ani, an almost unique Rhode Island business success story, was interviewed by Mark Oppenheimer of the New York Times recently about her...
View ArticleAlex and Ani buys naming rights to state formerly known as Rhode Island
April 1, 2015 – Governor Gina Raimondo announced that Cranston-based jewelry company Alex and Ani has purchased the naming rights to the state. Starting next week, the new name will be “The State of...
View ArticleHouse protects Alex and Ani owner’s farm concerts, progressives could have...
Screen shot from Sakonnet Vineyards website. Sometimes at the State House the script gets flipped and Democrats find themselves supporting freedom from regulations and Republicans find themselves...
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