MR. SPEAKER, TIME TO GIVE UP THE GAVEL Warwick, RI – Last night the Board of Elections ordered Speaker Nicholas Mattiello to repay $72,067.80, which was the amount illegally spent by his PAC...

Gina Raimondo’s UHIP Failures Continue To Cost Rhode Island Warwick, RI – Gina Raimondo’s failed leadership continues to cost Rhode Islanders as costs pile up for her administration’s...

LPI@RWU IN THE NEWS   VIDEO: A Lively Experiment April 20, 2018 Jim Hummel (Moderator), Ian Donnis (RI Public Radio), Mark Smiley (Former RI GOP Chair) and Gabriela Domenzian (LPI@RWU Director)...

Gov. Candidate Brown Runs as Progressive—Took Hundreds of Thousands from RI’s Wealthiest When Matt Brown announced that is looking to run for Governor of Rhode Island against Gina Raimondo and the...

NiLPnote: This article about Latinos, largely Mexican Americans, who are Border Patrol Agents, raises interesting questions about how the state seems to hire Latinos disproportionately in social...

EXCLUSIVE: Poll Shows Elorza Vulnerable in Re-Election Bid for Providence Mayor A new poll conducted among likely Democratic Providence voters shows that despite only one announced opponent, Read...

Progressive Land of Make Believe Bad Bill of the Week: Presuming Landlords Are Discriminatory   RhodeMapRI type scheme could make it a crime for private landlords not to accept Section-8 housing...

Warwick Mayor Avedisian to be Named Head of RIPTA on Weds, Will Resign City Post GoLocal has learned that on Wednesday the Board of the RI Public Transit Authority is scheduled to vote on the Read...

Matt Brown Made Nearly $300K for Financially Fledgling Non-Profit with $2M Budget For more than a decade, former Rhode Island Secretary of State Matt Brown was missing from Rhode Island politics...

NiLP Guest Commentary How Did Latinos Stop Republicans the Last Time they Controlled Washington? By Chris Zepeda-Millán The NiLP Report (April 17, 2018) From claiming that Mexicans were rapists and...

It’s Tax Season! Checking the box helps build a stronger, more united Democratic Party. It does NOT affect your return.  Follow these simple steps to contribute $2.00 to your State Party: 1....

7 Big Bills Facing the RI General Assembly After Recess Guns, immigration, transparency and the budget are some of the biggest pieces of legislation now facing the Rhode Island Read More.    ...

It’s Tax Season! Checking the box helps build a stronger, more united Democratic Party. It does NOT affect your return.  Follow these simple steps to contribute $2.00 to your State Party: 1....

NiLPnote: Interesting that Sinclair’s extreme right-wing political agenda was not directly addressed as it impacts so negatively on Latino and Black communities. Is it wise for these...

NiLP Commentary Latino Statistical Disobedience? Countering the Addition of the Citizenship Question in the 2020 Census By Angelo Falcón The NiLP Report (April 4, 2018) When the Census Bureau...

It’s Tax Season! Checking the box helps build a stronger, more united Democratic Party. It does NOT affect your return.  Follow these simple steps to contribute $2.00 to your State Party: 1....

NiLP Commentary Latinos and the “Of Color” Problem By Angelo Falcón The NiLP Report (April 1, 2018) “People of color,” “minorities,” “communities of...

NiLPnote: Here is yet another example where the Democratic Party takes the Latino vote for granted. As Connecticut State Rep Christopher Rosario put it, “We feel like the political mistress of...

The Politics of Latino Spanish NiLPnote: The AP’s Russell Contreras took proudly racist Congressman Steve King’s criticism of Emma Gonzalez’s presumed inability to speak Spanish as a...

NiLPnote: The Trump administration has decided to propose to effectively exclude over 18 percent of the Latino population from the 2020 Census. By calling on the US Congress to approve adding a...