The following is the official statement from Teamsters Local 251 Principal Officer and Secretary-Treasurer Matt Taibi on the Providence First Student Strike: “In consideration for the hardship for the children and parents involved with Providence …
Steven Frias, Republican candidate for House District 15 is challenging Speaker Nicholas Mattiello in the General Election on November 6, 2018. He released the following press release: Yesterday, the Rhode Island Board of Elections voted …
A press release from North Smithfield Town Council President John Beauregard: “At the North Smithfield Town Council meeting this past Monday I proposed a resolution only ‘requesting’ Town departments refrain from doing business with Nike. …
Rhode Island Right to Life is urging their members to vote for Dan McKee for Lieutenant Governor and against Aaron Regunberg in tomorrow’s Democratic Primary. Craig O’Connor, treasurer of the Planned Parenthood Votes! Rhode Island …
On Thursday, former Rhode Island Supreme Court Justice and Republican candidate for United States Senate Robert Flanders stood with the community of Burrillville and thirty-two total Rhode Island cities and towns in announcing his opposition …
Representative Marcia Ranglin-Vassell (Democrat, District 5, Providence) has released a statement on the shooting death of 15-year-old William Parsons outside the Providence Career and Technical Academy Wednesday afternoon. “It is with deep sadness that I …
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Matt Brown accused incumbent Governor Gina Raimondo of taking “full advantage of the Supreme Court‘s 2010 Citizens United decision that allows unlimited corporate donations and dark money in elections.” “She’s earned corporate …
Nature’s Trust Rhode Island, a youth-driven campaign for the legal right to a healthy climate, joined by Sisters of Mercy Ecology, today initiated legal action to compel the State of Rhode Island to “step up …
Paul Roselli, Democratic candidate for Rhode Island Senate District 23 says that if he is elected he will use his new role to stop the proposed new power plant in northwestern Rhode Island by insisting the state …
“For a lot of our neighbors and friends Labor Day means having cookouts, doing back to school shopping, maybe go to the beach, but for us, it means it’s time to fight,” said UNITE HERE …
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