Posts by Justin Katz
Providence Journal Commentary
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453513323810{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Shipping R.I. decisions to D.C. The language of Brookings Institution scholar Bruce Katz (no relation), whom Gov. Gina Raimondo and the Rhode Island Foundation have invited into the state to offer consultation on economic development, might seem so close to some on the political right…
Read MoreDan Yorke Show Radio Appearance
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1452827240412{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1452827541435{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”] [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dan Yorke invited Justin on to his midday 630AM/99.7FM WPRO talk radio show to discuss Governor Gina Raimondo’s suspicious hiring of a chief innovation officer who will actually work with the private-nonprofit Rhode Island College Foundation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Read MoreSakonnet Times Commentary
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1452826983019{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] What Tiverton’s credit rating really means I wrote in a letter last month that moving forward as a community means being able to discuss differences of opinion in the way that a community should. At its bottom, that means we must treat the challenges that…
Read MoreRhode Island General Assembly Freedom Index, 2015
[vc_row hide_row=”ct_tt_hide_content_timeline”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”147″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1452216973071{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]For four years, the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity has reviewed all legislation receiving a vote on either chamber floor in the state General Assembly, using the bill scores to rank legislators in both the House and Senate. Every year, Justin reads…
Read MoreWho is this guy?
[vc_row full_width=”nowidthrow” css=”.vc_custom_1451799270141{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”15″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Known mainly for espousing conservative views in a state where they are not encouraged, Justin Katz is a Roman Catholic Christian husband and father of four who currently works as Research Director for the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity…
Read MoreProvidence Journal Commentary
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1451870476602{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Calling R.I. Treasurer’s Pension Bluff Rhode Island’s pension fund (mainly covering state employees and teachers) hasn’t been doing very well at the investment market’s poker table. According to a Dec. 16 article by Katherine Gregg (“R.I. pension fund sharply lags expectations again”), the $7.63 billion…
Read MoreProvidence Journal Commentary
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1451872830179{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Accountability is what works in education With the release of Rhode Island’s abysmal results on its first round of Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) tests, the adults who ought to be held accountable for the travesty are out in force…
Read MoreParody Song
[vc_row hide_row=”ct_tt_hide_content_timeline”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”79″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1451874010739{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Hey, Tony (Defeat of the Dancing Cop) [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_accordion active_tab=”false” collapsible=”yes”][vc_accordion_tab title=”Lyrics” el_id=”hey-tony-lyrics”][vc_column_text]Hey, Tony It’s nothing personal But we gotta take you out There ain’t two ways about it Now, Tony You’ve done a lot of good But you shoulda kept your mouth…
Read MoreSakonnet Times Commentary
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1451959612946{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Big issues loom — let’s face them as community Maybe something arrived in the local air, with the summer months. Or maybe we were all exhausted by the constant roll of local issues about which we had to care, from major development proposals to all-day…
Read MoreWatchdog Arena Commentary
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1452045180749{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Throughout 2015, the Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity experimented with publishing state-level and even local content on an Arena section of its Watchdog.org news and commentary site and published Justin’s work on an almost weekly basis. Cycle through the tabs below to access the…
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