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Progress Report: Hard Knock Life in Middletown, Kennedy Chides Gemma, Patch...
Greenwich Cove (Photo by Bob Plain) The Providence Journal describes the conditions of a Middletown group home for children that caused the state to inspect all of its 76 facilities around the state:...
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Progress Report: Voter ID vs. Health Exchange; Doherty Pretends to be...
Rhode Island sure is a complex place politically. While Pat Smith points out this morning that we’re the only state with a Democratic-leaning legislature and without a Republican governor to pass a...
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Progress Report: Plastic Bags in Barrington; Offshore Wind Farm off Block...
Congratulations to Barrington for becoming the first town in Rhode Island to ban plastic grocery bags, and here’s hoping many more municipalities follow suit; such restrictions serve as a great aid in...
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Progress Report: Downside of High Stakes Testing; More WPRI Poll Results; Ann...
Downtown Providence from the Providence River. (Photo by Bob Plain) Last week we reported that education activists plan to attend Thursday’s Board of Regents meeting to protest new graduation...
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Patch abandons community journalism business model
There’s been a lot of changes at Patch, the network of local news websites, since I left the company two years ago. Back then, the AOL-owned company was launching new sites nationwide with reckless...
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Patch editor gets TV invite, declines because he was laid off
What a wild week local journalist Joe Hutnak just had. The Patch reporter filed top notch coverage of the Woonsocket Democratic mayoral primary last week and was invited to appear on WPRI Newsmakers to...
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Laid off Newport Patch editor Olga Enger speaks out, plans new hyperlocal site
A high number of Patch editors from Rhode Island and around the country were laid off today. While the corporate-owned community news websites aren’t informing the community about the changes, the...
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