Investigative reporter/Managing Editor @wpri12 (CBS) in RI. Co-author: "The Last Good Heist" - bit.ly/29II0so. Adjunct prof at @myrwu. Masters: @rwulaw
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Also, John Marion of @commoncauseri is right. The state's public record's law is applied subjectively. We are litigating these things way too much.
Marion: “If they want to be forthcoming, the law doesn’t prevent them from being forthcoming.”
This @NancyKLavin report on public officials grappling with the state's public record's law is great.
Couldn't help but chuckle to read a town manager say, "I was somewhat surprised by the lack of ease in providing these documents..."
I'm not.
rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/…
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This @NancyKLavin report on public officials grappling with the state's public record's law is great.
Couldn't help but chuckle to read a town manager say, "I was somewhat surprised by the lack of ease in providing these documents..."
I'm not.
rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/…
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In Friday's episode of Newsmakers on @wpri12, @DavidMoralesPVD, the Democratic nominee for Providence mayor, told @TedNesi and @TimWhiteRI that he plans to start enforcing rent stabilization "towards the fall of 2027, if not the very start of 2028.”
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In 1863 a NYT reporter "trudged through the violated Pennsylvania landscape on a solitary quest ... searching for one particular Union soldier who was said to have had his leg blown off. His teenage son." Beautifully written by @DanBarryNYT
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NEW: Two more people have been arrested in connection with a nuisance case in the affluent Alpine Estates neighborhood in Cranston.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a letter to Secretary of State Gregg Amore demanding that his office preserve election records, including those from the 2024 election, as a key deadline looms.
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NEW: Likely GOP nominee Aaron Guckian + indy Ken Block aren't getting state matching funds for their gov campaigns after all (both had initially said they would)
Foulkes has raised $5M+ since start of 2025 and is now replenishing her coffers post-primary wpri.com/news/elections/guck…
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Wow
NEW and BREAKING: Justice Department prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into revelations the Clippers helped arrange secret sponsorship contracts for the star player Kawhi Leonard that circumvented the salary cap. nytimes.com/2026/09/10/us/po…
w/@WRashbaum @SantulN
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MAPS: Where voters rejected incumbents in Rhode Island’s biggest races.
Interactive maps + breakdowns --> wpri.com/target-12/maps-wher…
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BOOM: Voter turnout in Providence has *already* passed the 2022 total turnout as of 5pm, with three hours of voting still to go
21,950 in 2022 (final)
22,327 in 2026 as of 5pm
What everyone wants to know: what does that mean for the Smiley-Morales mayoral primary?
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One thing is becoming clear: this isn't going to be a low-turnout Rhode Island primary.
Total turnout as of 3pm is just under 109,000 voters - that's 33% higher than at the same hour in 2022.
And election-day turnout alone is running 12% higher despite much higher early vote.
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TONIGHT: @wpri12 will have full coverage of the RI primary results as soon as the polls close
At 8p we will kick off our streaming special on our 12+ TV app, YouTube, our website and everywhere else
Then at 9:30p we will go on the air @wpri12
Tune in! wpri.com/news/elections/vote…
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NEW: RI's overshadowed GOP gov primary now has its own air war, on the radio
Pelino and Guckian are both on WPRO with closing-argument spots
Either Republican would head into the general election underfunded, with only about $12,000 apiece right now wpri.com/news/elections/gop-…
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NEW: The NCAA has replaced attorneys handling a case in Rhode Island after disparaging emails targeting a Villanova football player, his mother and the state’s judiciary surfaced in court filings.
Emails included the phrases "poop man" and "dumb judge" wpri.com/target-12/dumb-judg…
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NEW: The RI Ethics Commission dismissed a complaint against Sen. Pres. Val Lawson.
The complaint accused Lawson, also a teacher's union president, of voting on legislation benefiting labor.
w/ @TedNesi
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NEW: Out of the blue, a clean energy super PAC is dropping $500,000 into ads attacking McKee - a big sum in a week in RI
He is group's first Dem target after prior GOP interventions (Chip Roy etc)
But one ad already being recut - had wrong RIDOT director wpri.com/news/elections/mcke…
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NEW: Rep. Julie Casimiro has resigned, ending her term early amid mounting political/legal pressure over her decision to move to South Carolina.
“I would have preferred to quietly exit Rhode Island politics, but it seems as though that didn’t happen"
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Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha says he’s considering legal action over Rep. Julie Casimiro’s decision to remain in office after moving to South Carolina.
Neronha sent Casimiro a letter Friday, giving her until the end of Tuesday to respond wpri.com/target-12/neronha-w…
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TARGET 12: A Johnston woman said a man followed her on I-195 while committing a lewd act. He denies it.
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12 NEWS/EMERSON POLL: @DanMcKeeRI gained 10 points this summer while @helena_foulkes gained 5, tightening Dem Gov primary to a 15-pt race
Undecideds poised to break heavily for Foulkes - asked to choose, her lead widens to 61%-39%
Full Gov results here wpri.com/news/elections/poll…
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