Rhode Island's Future is a Rhode Island blog dubbed the "state's most popular political blog" by the Phoenix Newspaper. The blog was started in March 2005 by political activist Matthew Jerzyk, a long-time community and union organizer with SEIU and Jobs with Justice. Contributing to this was the first Green Party elected official in Rhode Island's history (who later became a Democrat), State Representative David Segal. Rhode Island's Future played a key role in the 2006 Senate race between Sheldon Whitehouse and Lincoln Chafee by exposing a scandal involving a Chafee staffer sending controversial emails from a government computer 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. Edited by Bob Plain, the site features as contributors: Steve Ahlquist Samuel G. Howard Tom Sgouros Andrew Stewart Brian Hull Samuel Bell Dave Fisher Frymaster Peter Nightingale Elisha Aldrich Bruce Reilly transportprovidence Mark Binder Russ Conway External links http://www.rifuture.org References American blogs Internet properties established in 2005