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Deadline constraints have delayed my blogging today. To tide you over, here's a post from Matt on five of the top General Assembly races he'll be keeping a close eye on this fall: 1. Chris Fierro - Fierro is running for State Representative in...
Kudos + congrats to my friend Matt, an occasional Phoenix contributor, who graduates this week from Roger Williams Law School. The RI Populist was today among the winners of the Metcalf Diversity in Media Award (named for former ProJo publisher Michael...
[Above: Anchor Rising's Justin Katz, Marc Comtois, and Andrew Morse] Thanks in good measure to the pioneering efforts of Rhode Island's Future and Anchor Rising , the Rhode Island blogosphere continues to grow in variety and sophistication. I look at...
By his own admission, energetic labor activist Pat Crowley, a bete noire for conservative Rhode Islanders, had a little time on his hands recently, so he catalogued the number of blog mentions devoted to him on Anchor and the Ocean State Republican ....
The bygone year was a big one in the RI blogosphere, if I may say so, with the addition of sites such as N4N and Providence Daily Dose . Now, in today's ProJo, Ed Fitzpatrick describes how citizen-activist Anne Grant is pushing the boundaries of the local...
From Markos : Hillary is my least favorite of the viable candidates on substantive grounds, and I'll be voting for Barack Obama here pretty soon here in California via absentee ballot. The second-to-last thing I want is Mark Penn and Terry McAluiffe anywhere...
Via Romenesko : Newsweek press release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 MARKOS MOULITSAS, FOUNDER AND PUBLISHER OF DAILYKOS.COM , TO BECOME NEWSWEEK CONTRIBUTOR FOR 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN New York -- Markos Moulitsas, the founder...
Welcome to the RI blogosphere, Providence Daily Dose . Elsewhere: -- The guys at Anchor Rising continue their quest for greater hegemony, slating a casual get-together next Thursday at TGI Friday's in Warick. Justin, Andrew, Marc, and Don are contributing...
From yesterday's New York Times : Never underestimate the power of the blogosphere and a quarter of a degree to inflame the fight over global warming . A quarter-degree Fahrenheit is roughly the downward adjustment NASA scientists made earlier this month...
Rhode Island's Future is up with a new look and a new format . Here's what Matt Jerzyk has to say about the evolution of his blog: The RI Future blog has made some substantial changes in order to create a more democratic blog so that YOU the reader have...
Andrew, Justin, Marc, and Don from Anchor Rising , Rhode Island's leading conservative blog, were kind enough to ask me to join them for dinner, and we enjoyed a lively, wide-ranging discussion last night at Hemenway's . The liberal-leaning Phoenix scribe...
Blogging continues to grow in new and fascinating ways. The New York Times had a good story yesterday about how the bloggers at Firedoglake have provided the most extensive coverage of the Scott Libby trial. A few other odds and ends: -- Seth Gitell ...
As promised, Erica Sagrans has an excellent story in this week's Phoenix about the netroots and their efforts to use technology to increase political participation and diffuse political power. Erica's piece looks at this locally and nationally, and includes...
