As I've written, the ProJo's SoxBlog is among the paper's best new-media efforts. There's a lot of content and a steady effort to try new things, such as a daily recorded interview with Sean McAdam, far and away the ProJo's best baseball writer. The downside? McAdam, speaking from some sort of phone while on the road, sounds like he's trapped in a metallic can.

Art Martone's Sox Blog is a prime example of how a blog based at a MSM daily can do a great job with blogging. Martone is a super-informed baseball observer, his blog is updated frequently, and it's chock full of posts of interest to Sox enthusiasts.

Yet some of us in the local blogosphere continue to wonder why the ProJo, which has a three-person State House staff and a number of other talented staffers who write about politics, does such a lame job with its Politics Blog -- which is rarely updated and consists mostly of reprinting Political Scene.

The bottom of today's ProJo carries a notice indicating how the daily newsstand price of Rhode Island's dominant daily has climbed to 75 cents, the first such increase in 18 years. Considering the woes of the newspaper industry, this decision was certainly not made lightly.

The problem for newspapers is not that fewer people are reading them.

On one level, I guess it should be a point of pride when the MSM picks up the work of us humble bloggers. On another level, we are increasingly becoming a tip sheet for Rhode Island's dominant daily (whose 7 to 7 blog is taking the day off, btw.)

So last week, Matt reported on Steve Kass perhaps being a bit out of the loop.

Today, Political Scene reports on Steve Kass perhaps being a bit out of the loop.

RI Report's Tom Shevlin is giving some appropriate grief to the Providence Journal -- which on Sunday carried the news of former US Senator Linc Chafee's disaffiliation from the Republican Party -- for slighting the Rhode Island blogosphere.

As indicated toward the bottom of this post, Shevlin and the conservative blog Anchor Rising broke the Chafee story on Saturday.

I'd been meaning to get to this, but Anchor Rising's Marc beat me to the punch last week with this spot-on post:

ProJo: In Foreclosure, there's profit!

Posted by Marc Comtois

What to make of the "Housing in R.I." section displayed prominently on today's ProJo.com frontpage?

Let's see, hmmm....wow, how ironic, Both condo sales and foreclosures are rising

So says Anchor's Rising's Andrew Morse:

I Don’t Suppose We Can Blame This On a Lack of Local Ownership

From an unsigned editorial in today’s Projo…

It is time to consider consolidating many more town and city services regionally. To that end, it might be time to revive Rhode Island’s four counties — Providence, Kent, Bristol and Washington (aka South County) to provide local services.

N4N tends to agree with those who say the 2003 Station fire disaster caused an overreaction in new laws and regulation. Representatives Joseph Trillo (R-Warwick) and Peter Ginaitt (D-Warwick) discuss this topic during an appearance Sunday on Newsmakers, broadcast at 5:30 AM on Channel 12 and at 10 AM on Fox 64. Also, Providence City Councilman Miguel Luna appears on the show to discuss immigration and his proposal for making Providence a sanctuary city.