“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. …
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, …
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 …
Mario Méndez is running for the District 13 (Providence, Johnston) House seat currently held by Ramon Perez, and before that by John Carnevale. I spoke to Méndez by phone. We started by talking about the …
John Carnevale, who was last week revealed to be considering a run for Representative in District 13, an elected position he lost due to accusations that he did not maintain a legal residence within the …
Rhode Island Dreamers with current or past DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) status will now be able to apply for and receive drivers licenses in Rhode Island regardless of what happens to the program …
“I do this in part because someday my grandchildren will read about this in the history books and be distraught over the travesty and inhumanity of it and will ask me, ‘Grandma, how could you …
Rhode Island Rights held a rally Wednesday outside the Federal Building near Kennedy Plaza in downtown Providence to support whistleblowers facing jail time, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Terry Albury, who revealed government secrets to …
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