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

External links

• http://www.rifuture.org

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