Mark Patinkin

The assignment was to recall things in 2025 reflecting Rhode Island’s amusing and quirky sides. I think we have no choice but to begin with sharks. It is an aspiration of news people to one day have the chance to deploy “Sharknado” in a headline, and I’m ... See more

You probably saw that Brown University placed its chief cop, Rodney Chatman, on leave days after the horrific mass shooting was resolved. But the question lingers: Why didn’t Brown act earlier? Chatman has a history of being criticized during his four-yea... See more

POLITICS 'It shook me': Smiley rises to the occasion after shooting, Patinkin writes Mark Patinkin Providence Journal Dec. 23, 2025, 5:09 a.m. ET I am picturing what it must have been like for Mayor Brett Peter Smiley. He is home late afternoon Saturday, ... See more

Refath Bari ran from the Brown shooting and found bonds for life Mark Patinkin Refath Bari, a Brown University physics master’s student, was on the first floor of the Barus & Holley science building, yards from the door to lecture room 166, when he he... See more

Providence landlords got behind-the-scenes look at 'meticulous' police work Mark Patinkin There’s something neither the public nor the press saw during the frantic search for the Brown University shooter. What law enforcement did behind the scenes. But I ... See more