Rhode Island's Future

[http://www.rifuture.org Rhode Island's Future] is a Rhode Island blog dubbed the "state's most popular political blog" by the Phoenix Newspaper. [ [http://new.thephoenix.com/article_ektid32823.aspx The new armies of the ’net - News - The Phoenix ] ]

The blog was started in March 2005 [ [http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2006/04/06/Metro/Political.Blogs.A.Rising.Force.In.The.Ocean.State-1798615.shtml Political blogs a rising force in the Ocean State - Metro ] ] by political activist Matthew Jerzyk, a long-time community and union organizer with SEIU and Jobs with Justice. The blog quickly grew from a handful of readers to nearly 1,000,000 hits each month.Fact|date=November 2007 Contributing to this was the first Green Party elected official in Rhode Island's history (who later became a Democrat), State Representative David Segal [ [http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/Segal Representative David A. Segal ] ] .

Rhode Island's Future played a key role in the 2006 Senate race [ [http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard102906.html Yorke, Jerzyk, and Morse Analyze RI Politics ] ] between Sheldon Whitehouse and Lincoln Chafee by exposing a scandal involving a Chafee staffer [ [http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/11/01/chafee_aide_sent_negative_e_mails_from_senate_computer Chafee aide suspended for sending e-mails from Senate computer - Boston.com ] ] sending controversial emails from a government computer [ [http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/42478.html IP address exposed anonymous mudslinger ] ] just one week before the election. Jerzyk, the blog's editor, also played a central role in a prominent controversy at Roger Williams University School of Law involving the Chairman of the University's Board of Trustees use of the "N-word" and the subsequent removal of his name from the law school. [ [http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118532905824977128-VF_XY3I36IZTx06seHOX9RR9gYU_20070801.html For a Litigator on a Streak, There's a Science to Winning - WSJ.com ] ]

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