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 …
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 …
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 …
Last week, the Rhode Island House of Representatives passed H7715, also known as Kristen’s Law, introduced by House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello (Democrat, District 15, Cranston). Kristen’s Law would allow for the prosecution of drug dealers …
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