Rhode Island's Future

Rhode Island's Future is a Rhode Island blog dubbed the "state's most popular political blog" by the Phoenix Newspaper.[1]

The blog was started in March 2005[2] by political activist Matthew Jerzyk, a long-time community and union organizer with SEIU and Jobs with Justice. Contributing to this was the first Green Party elected official in Rhode Island's history (who later became a Democrat), State Representative David Segal.[3]

Rhode Island's Future played a key role in the 2006 Senate race[4] between Sheldon Whitehouse and Lincoln Chafee by exposing a scandal involving a Chafee staffer[5] sending controversial emails from a government computer[6] just one week before the election. Jerzyk, the blog's editor, also played a central role in a prominent controversy at Roger Williams University School of Law involving the chairman of the university's board of trustees use of the "N-word" and the subsequent removal of his name from the law school.[7]

Edited by Bob Plain, the site features as contributors:[8]

  • Steve Ahlquist
  • Samuel G. Howard
  • Tom Sgouros
  • Andrew Stewart
  • Brian Hull
  • Samuel Bell
  • Dave Fisher
  • Frymaster
  • Peter Nightingale
  • Elisha Aldrich
  • Bruce Reilly
  • transportprovidence
  • Mark Binder
  • Russ Conway

References
  1. The new armies of the ’net - News - The Phoenix
  2. Political blogs a rising force in the Ocean State - Metro
  3. Representative David A. Segal
  4. Yorke, Jerzyk, and Morse Analyze RI Politics
  5. Chafee aide suspended for sending e-mails from Senate computer - Boston.com
  6. IP address exposed anonymous mudslinger
  7. For a Litigator on a Streak, There's a Science to Winning - WSJ.com
  8. http://www.rifuture.org


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