Our government is asleep. Who’s watching over Rhode Island? Our state government isn’t paying attention. While we struggle, our government shuts its eyes and ignores our problems. Join Wil Gregersen and other worried Rhode Islanders at an overnight vigil to talk about what we need our state to do. Tell us what you want. Make a video. Make a speech. Be creative and protest with music, satire, or poetry. Help us keep watch while our government naps. A Vigil at the State House Friday, April 17 - Saturday, April 18 6 pm - 6 am on the Smith Street side

Are you angry? Are you scared? Do you have a hope? A need?

Drop by a vigil at the State House on Friday, April 17 - Saturday, April 18 from 6 p.m. - 6 a.m., and share your dreams and worries for Rhode Island.

Hey, everyone! Meet Blue!

Music by Viacheslav Starostin from Pixabay
Music by Golden Sound Labs from Pixabay

A Minute with Wil A Podcast Let's Fix RI!

Check out my new podcast.

Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, iHeart, and Spotify.

Episode 2 is “Let’s Be Serious About Age.”

Our Government Is Asleep... Who’s Watching Over Rhode Island? Our state government isn’t paying attention. While we struggle, our government shuts its eyes and ignores our problems. Join Wil Gregersen and other worried Rhode Islanders for an overnight vigil to talk about what we need our state to so. Tell us what you want. Make a video. Make a speech. Be creative and protest with music, satire, or poetry. Help us keep watch while our government naps. A Vigil at the State House Friday, April 17 - Saturday, April 18 6 pm - 6 am Smith Street side

Is it the coming rain, snow, or winter temps that are making us change the date of our vigil at the State House?

How about all three?

Let's try again on Friday, April 17 through Saturday, April 18 between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. to talk about what we need our state government to do.

A Minute with Wil A Podcast Let's Fix RI!

Check out my new podcast.

Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, iHeart, and Spotify.

Episode 1 is "A Contract with Rhode Island."

Our Government Is Asleep … Who’s Watching Over RI ? Our state government isn’t paying attention. While we struggle, our government shuts its eyes and neglects our problems. Join Wil Gregersen and other worried Rhode Islanders for an overnight vigil to share and listen to what we need. Tell us what you want our state to do. Make a video. Make a speech. Be creative and protest with music, satire, or poetry. Help us keep watch while our government naps. A Vigil at the State House Friday, April 3 - Saturday, April 4 6 pm - 6 am Smith Street side

Our government is asleep.

Help us keep watch over our state at an overnight vigil at the State House.

Wil Gregersen for Governor Campaign Launch Are you tired of our slow-walking, deadlocking, progress-blocking state government? I am. Our government is weary and numb. But we can overcome its apathy with energy, its corruption with honesty, and its empty promises with actual answers to our problems. Join me, Wil Gregersen, the second tallest candidate for governor in Rhode Island, as I pledge to make state government work for you. Plus, enjoy free soft serve ice cream and deli finger food donated by Like No Udder owner Karen Krinsky and Providence Vegan Deli owner Rich Gaccione. I look forward to seeing you there! Thursday, March 12 at 7:15 p.m. Like No Udder & Providence Vegan Deli 783 Hope Street, Providence

What's more exciting? Free soft serve ice cream, deli finger food, or Wil? Join me at my campaign launch to find out.

Thursday, March 12 at 7:15 p.m.

Like No Udder & Providence Vegan Deli
783 Hope Street, Providence

Your six minutes were wise and perceptive, and those photos were great! Would you be interested in helping to reverse those trends in our city and state? The Contract with Rhode Island is a proposal to do that. Here's a link: drive.google.com/file/d/1F9pR...

We need to add customers, expand into new markets, earn more revenue, and improve operations to increase the value of our business and ensure its longterm success.

The business of state government is providing essential public services, and it if we want it to be successful, we need to do what all successful business do, which is grow.

Everything is connected. We need to start solving the housing crisis now or lose a seat in Congress.

Let's run government like a business.

My God. Jack Reed is so excited to vote to fund ICE that he’s not even asking for body cameras and training to happen, just for them to be voted on!

Democrats had four years to put the Republicans who coordinated January 6 in prison but didn’t, and now we have death squads. What else will their inaction allow?

There’s an election coming. Who will step up to replace Reed, Magaziner, and Amo and fight like our lives depend on it?

Alex Pretti Memorial

Democrats @reed.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @magaziner.house.gov, @amo.house.gov, and all elected DC Dems co-own these executions in our streets and the shattered reputation of the US because they won’t tell Republicans, “we will prosecute you for every crime you commit ASAP.”

It's hard to believe, but I'm not the tallest!

Here's my official announcement.

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

GoLocalProv | Business | Contract Ratified: Butler Strike Yields a Minimum of $20 an Hour, Says Union According to the union, the new contract with Butler Hospital and its parent company, Care New England, was overwhelmingly ratified on Monday night.

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."

www.golocalprov.com/business/con...

And here are some of the benefits we expect we’ll get:

• grow our economy
• generate more revenue
• create an emergency reserve
• lower energy prices
• keep the power on
• stop climate change from becoming costlier

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.

generouscrow.org

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?

Sixteen Years YouTube video by The Jazz Butcher - Topic

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.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziET...

Does Rhode Island need outside economic intervention? Although the worst of the Great Recession was yet to come, Rhode Island’s decades-long struggle to build a better economy was abundantly clear by the time when I wrote a Providence Phoenix st…

We desperately need our legislators to stop dawdling, do more than talk, and start fixing Rhode Island’s problems.

That’s why we need to elect New Democrats who have the passion and drive to fix things, including our General Assembly. 3/3

wrnipoliticsblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/d...

3) Institute four-year terms for the legislature;
4)  Have term limits of two (four-year) terms;
5) Give the governor a line item veto authority; and
6) Earmark all revenues generated by increases in taxes or fees to investment-oriented uses. 2/3

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 standard operating procedure for our part-time General Assembly.

Move slowly on problems, and putter around the margins making small tweaks and adjustments that solve nothing.

This time, that strategy will lead to disaster. 2/2

Federal spending cuts leave a big, beautiful question mark over Rhode Island • Rhode Island Current Rhode Island officials are bracing for potentially devastating cuts to Medicaid, hospital funding and food assistance programs as a result of the federal budget. But details of the local impact remain...

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

rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/07/17/f...

Forestry Bills Pass Through Both General Assembly Chambers - ecoRI News Will a small tax break for forestry vehicles lead to greater clear-cutting of Rhode Island’s forestland, or will it boost a flagging industry?

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.

ecori.org/forestry-bil...

The end: RI lawmakers pass state budget, restrict casino smoking and payday loans on final day There was little doubt the Senate would pass the $14.3 billion state budget, but that didn't mean the final debate was without drama.

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.

www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...