“Ask yourself, are you ever in a space where a woman is being silenced?” offered Representative Liana Cassar (Democrat, District 66, Barrington, East Providence). “Are you...
“To take a view that maybe all the former Attorney Generals were lax in their duties and now finally we have an aggressive, overzealous Attorney General,...
“Just as we have speed limits to reduce the risk and severity of car accidents, we must have a ban on high capacity magazines to reduce...
“At what point am I truly allowed to be rehabilitated?” asked Roxxanne Newman, a formerly incarcerated member of the Working Group. Governor Gina Raimondo’s Juvenile and...
The department is targeting communities of color and violating local and federal law by using broad ‘association’ criteria to list people in a gang database, a...
“Nowadays we have the lowest rates of overdose deaths in Europe,” said Dr João Goulão. “We had 38 deaths in 2017, a country of 10 million...
“Given this history of repeated violations, the patent inadequacy of the agenda item, and the multiple admonishments provided to the City on this exact issue, together...
The criminalization of sex work does nothing to help sex workers pay for childcare or their rent. “When people are going to jail, they’re losing their...
Parents and advocates launch new coalition to pass comprehensive parentage reform, saying families can’t keep waiting for the law to change. A coalition of Rhode Island...
I’m writing about the piece posted yesterday regarding recommendations for divestment at Brown. I see that the author is noted as Brown Divest but it’s labeled...