The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island, in partnership with the Board of Rabbis of Greater Rhode Island and representatives from the interfaith community held a press conference in response to the Trump Administration‘s family …
“You have no idea Representative, respectfully, how much time went into this version. Every business group that we could find voiced an opinion. We’ve had dozens of people working on this for the entire session. …
The labor union for graduate employees at Brown University, Stand Up for Graduate Student Employees (SUGSE), signed an agreement today with the university for a free and fair union election for 1,400 graduate teaching and …
Invenergy, the Chicago-based fossil fuel energy company that wants to build a $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant in the heart of the pristine forests of northwest Rhode Island, is going …
At its height around 400 people crowded the south steps of the Rhode Island State House on Wednesday afternoon to oppose the Trump Administration policy of separating families at the border. Organized by the March …
Week six of the Rhode Island Poor People’s Campaign: A Call for Moral Revival took things up a notch when Peter Nightingale, professor of physics at the University of Rhode Island, and Sister Mary Pendergast, …
On Saturday, April 28, I attended a Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Town Hall Event and had an opportunity to ask the Senator two questions: first, “Why were you one of the ten Democratic Senators who voted in …
Many people know me now as a Democratic Candidate for State Representative in House District 30. What many people may not know is that I am also a mother of young children: I have a …
As she was entering the hotel to deliver the keynote at the Second Annual Community Overdose Engagement Summit in Warwick, I asked Governor Gina Raimondo if she still intends to sign Kristen’s Law. “I do …
I understand the intent behind Kristen’s Law, but I feel this legislation is tragically flawed. I was one of only a handful of senators to vote against it, and stand by my vote. In its …
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