Friday Flagging: Warren
Finishing the East Bay with Warren, a town with a bloody history.
Friday Flagging: Tiverton
Tiverton’s fishy past deserves a flag that reflects its rich history.
Friday Flagging: South Kingstown
Friday Flagging looks at South Kingstown, a former capital with an absolutely brutal past, and also a lot of wool.
Friday Flagging: Smithfield
Going to Apple Valley to talk more about mills villages, partitions, and how suburbanization revitalized western RI.
The Ongoing Quest to Make RI’s Lieutenant Governor Relevant
A reader offers a suggestion for how to make the lieutenant governor matter, but I think we’ve already decided that it shouldn’t.
Friday Flagging: Scituate
Scituate, one of three towns formed from Providence, could never quite escape the influence of the state capital, which permanently transformed it with the reservoir.
Indoor and Outdoor Progressives
Another stab at the political taxonomy of progressivism in RI, but this time with cats!
Friday Flagging: Richmond
Richmond, the fourth division of Westerly, and a town where the populated areas are almost all shared with other towns.
The Co-op Faces a Test of the Strength of its Opposition
Did Potter’s repudiation from the Co-op harm him or the Co-op more?
Friday Flagging: Providence
The politics of logos, seals, and flags in a diverse city with a lot of strong-willed people. And can you even make a flag to represent Providence?
