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. Helena Foulkes' newly launched campaign for governor is already a much sharper operation than her 2022 effort. That was clear at Tuesday's kickoff, a made-for-TV rally choreographed by Eric Hyers, the veteran operative who helped elect David Cicilline to Congress and Gina Raimondo to the governor's office. (Last time Foulkes launched with an iPhone video.) It's also clear when Foulkes discusses what she wants to offer Democratic primary voters. "What's missing today in Rhode Island, when I talk to Rhode Islanders, is competence,

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