State Sen. Louis DiPalma (D-Middletown) joins Political Roundtable this week to discuss the recent changes in the Senate; the outlook for improving the troubled state Department of Children, Youth and Families; and how Republican Robert Flanders may stack up against Democratic U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.

One of the state’s top political reporters, Ian Donnis joined The Public’s Radio in 2009. Ian has reported on Rhode Island politics since 1999, arriving in the state just two weeks before the FBI...