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. Could David Morales be Providence's Zohran Mamdani? The 27-year-old progressive state rep is taking a page out of the New Yorker's playbook as he mounts a primary challenge against incumbent Democrat Brett Smiley, with a pitch heavy on youthful energy and outrage over rising rents. "We are watching as costs are rising for everyone, especially our working families, as property taxes continue to rise, yet our schools remain understaffed and our city services have not improved," Morales said on this week's Newsmakers. Now, the para

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