Rhode Island's Future

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Rhode Island's Future is a Rhode Island blog dubbed the "state's most popular political blog" by the Phoenix Newspaper.^[1]

The blog was started in March 2005^[2] 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.^{[citation needed]} Contributing to this was the first Green Party elected official in Rhode Island's history (who later became a Democrat), State Representative David Segal^[3].

Rhode Island's Future played a key role in the 2006 Senate race^[4] between Sheldon Whitehouse and Lincoln Chafee by exposing a scandal involving a Chafee staffer^[5] sending controversial emails from a government computer^[6] 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.^[7]

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