Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo has responded to the dangerous cold and sudden lack of heating for 7100 customers in Newport County by declaring a State of Emergency and activating the Rhode Island National Guard. …
Hearings continued last week at the Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) to determine the fate of Invenergy‘s proposed $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant aimed at the pristine forests of northwest …
Turn Off 10, a campaign coordinated by the Rhode Island ReSisters, protested outside Warwick Mall on Saturday afternoon, to call attention to Sinclair Broadcast Group‘s continued ownership of local television station Channel 10/WJAR and the …
United States Representative David Cicilline (Democrat, Rhode Island) held a “community conversation” with constituents at Hope High School in Providence on Saturday morning. The two main topics Cicilline wanted to cover were the government shutdown …
“Fresh, clean water cannot be taken for granted. And it is not – water is political and litigious…” Michael Burry, the businessman featured in The Big Short (2015) Welcome to The Uprising! 1a. Water Things …
The Providence City Council, for the first time a majority woman city council, unanimously passed a resolution in favor of passing the Reproductive Health Care Act (RHCA), legislation currently before the Rhode Island General Assembly …
The Rhode Island House of Representatives debated the rules by which the chamber will be governed for the next two years for nearly three hours Wednesday evening, in the end passing small reforms. This is …
The hearings on Invenergy‘s proposed $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant, aimed at the pristine forests of northwest Rhode Island resumed this morning at the Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB). Picking …
At the Town of Johnston’s Mayoral and Town Council Inauguration, held Monday night in the Johnston High School auditorium, Invenergy‘s top attorney, Chicago-based lawyer Michael Blazer, was sitting front and center. Invenergy is the company …
Courtney Hawkins, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Human Services (RI DHS) held a press conference today to let people receiving SNAP benefits, a federally funded food assistance program, know that the government shutdown …
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