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Rob Smith
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Reporting on the environment for ecoRI News.
besides if you want a bully pulpit you do what what is tradition, get a show on WPRO or other local talk radio station
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
inevitably we nerfed the office in 2003 and we're cursed to have the LG debate until we give it something else to do in government. Bully pulpit is too much of a cop out answer
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
its funny, people would have noticed only because he said he'd do nothing, where as if any typical pol was elected, they probably could serve most of their term on a Caribbean island and no one would notice
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I honestly enjoy the implicit assumption that the natural state of Germans is to be subdivided into a million tiny fiefdoms like in the HRE
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
people sleep on his solo albums too often, outside the radio hits imo
October 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
July 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A couple opponents have cited Trump executive orders opposing offshore wind....
July 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The tell was they described themselves not as residents but "RI propertyowners."
July 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Actually really funny: someone against the project really emphasized they lived in Portsmouth compared to some of the supporters.

The next two speakers were against the project and quietly implied they owned secondary homes in the state with a primary residence elsewhere.
July 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
There's been a lot of opposition speakers so far, mostly relying on typical anti wind talking points that offshore wind projects can seem to shake.

Nearly two hours in and there's still 34 speakers to go tonight
July 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM