Happy Saturday! Here's another edition of my weekend column for WPRI.com -- as always, send your takes, tips and trial balloons to tnesi@wpri.com and follow me on Twitter, Bluesky and Facebook.

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1. When Republican Gov. Don Carcieri launched Rhode Island's offshore wind industry in 2008, he championed it as the path to energy independence amid high oil prices and Mideast wars. "I believe it's the one thing we can do to stabilize our energy costs," Carcieri told me back then, soon after he selected Deepwater Wind to build the Block Island Wind Farm. Now, 17 years later, another Republican -- Donald Trump -- is trying to kill the industry just as Carcieri's vision reaches economic viability. Trump's Aug. 22 stop-work order ha

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