I see things from a different angle, and sometimes, I see things other people don’t.

Good news! The three-month strike at Butler Hospital ended yesterday when workers approved a new contract.

“We are proud to stand together to have an agreement that allows us to move forward with our shared goal of helping patients and caring for one another."

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Do you have hope for the future? I do.

That's why some friends and I started Generous Crow. We want a blueprint for a clean energy utility that lays out all the benefits and convinces people with facts that it’s a first-rate solution.

I think you'll like what you see.

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So, what are “essential public services?” Healthcare? Housing? Energy? Education? Transportation? Sanitation? Banking? Insurance? Police? Fire? Jails? Water? Food?

All of these are publicly-run somewhere without shareholders raising the price.

What would you add to the list?

Here’s a tune for our times:

“Privatized businesses have shareholders,
Who expect to make personal gain,
From their stake in essential public services,

“And people wonder where,
All the money's gone.”

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How can we get our state legislature to do its job is an old question.

In 2012, URI economics professor Leonard Lardaro suggested six steps to fix our General Assembly:

1) Have a full-time legislature;
2) Dramatically reduce the size of the legislature to about 50 persons; 1/3

This is a chilling article. Every paragraph has a new fright. Federal cuts to health care and food assistance are going to cripple our state.

Yet, the speaker of our House thinks it’s okay to wait six months to start dealing with the cuts. 1/2

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In 2025, our legislators made a few tweaks to improve healthcare and the housing crisis but didn’t come close to fixing those problems.

But they got very close to creating a taxpayer-subsidized timber industry.

It makes me wonder how they decide what’s important.

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That’s it. Our legislators are gone. They’ll come back next January and pass more laws in June.

In the meantime, we'll keep living with a broken healthcare system, housing crisis, and energy crisis.

We need a General Assembly that works for us year-round.

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We need people in government who want to get things done.

Our junior senator is proud that he’s delivered 300 speeches about climate change. He’s been doing it since 2012, and 13 years later he’s celebrating.

It’s a big achievement to talk 300 times while climate change rages on.

I mean, what more can a U.S. senator do?

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How can we make Rhode Island affordable again?

We can cut healthcare costs with a single payer healthcare system.

We can lower housing costs by building affordable housing.

We can bring down energy prices by building a statewide, publicly-owned, clean energy utility. 1/2

Rhode Island is our home, but across the state, we’re being pushed out.

In 1772, fifty Rhode Island men risked their wealth, reputations, and lives to oppose the King of England. Boarding the Royal Navy schooner HMS Gaspee after midnight, they shot the captain in the crotch, burned the ship to the water line, and lit the first spark of the American Revolution. 1/5

I hope I would have learned a few things if I had been a U.S. senator over the past 30 years—like how to fight like unyielding Senate leader Harry Reid or how to beat back a supermajority like the uncompromising Republicans who derailed Barack Obama’s agenda. 1/2

It burned me up when I heard that Care New England was taking health care away from striking workers. That’s a healthcare company turning health insurance into a weapon. That’s an employer hurting its workers even more. 1/2

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Rhode Island workers are being punished and hurt. We need a state that treats workers fairly.

Rhode Island needs new leaders. Our U.S. and state officials are dodging their responsibilities as problems grow larger and become more difficult to solve. 1/14

I'm Wil Gregersen. I'm a Rhode Island librarian, and I'm running for governor.

This is my free website because we're just starting out. 67b08fb39a264.site123.me 😊