May 4, 2020

Credit/No-credit grading in Providence Public Schools is the only just solution

“No young person should be penalized because an unprecedented public health crisis is preventing them from performing...

May 6, 2020

David Segal: Progressives must prepare for coming state budget battle

“Progressives lawmakers must recognize that they wield great power as next year’s budget is shaped and any...

April 28, 2020

RI Progressive Democrats: Income and jobs that won’t disappear

Our economy is fragile and blows to our economy only make it less strong. But it doesn’t...

April 23, 2020

COVID-19 is exposing existing inequalities. Are state leaders partly to blame?

“We are learning a lot of lessons from this pandemic. My hope is that one we will...

Woonsocket City Councilor James Cournoyer responds to Kithes interview
April 20, 2020

Woonsocket City Councilor James Cournoyer responds to Kithes interview

“The solicitor was not unsure about anything. Quite the contrary, he was absolutely sure, as, apparently unlike...

April 16, 2020

Coronavirus crisis hits a nursing home system already crippled by brutal Medicaid cuts

“The General Assembly has not met in remote session to approve emergency actions like Medicaid surge funding,...

April 15, 2020

To be able to ask a question, that is the issue

“It is a time when we all need to be pulling together in the same direction, I...

April 15, 2020

A moral imperative: Race, poverty and coronavirus

“How does anyone in good conscience separate race from poverty? You can’t. It is intricately linked. There...

Essential workers face stark choices, and Governor Raimondo refuses to help
April 12, 2020

Essential workers face stark choices, and Governor Raimondo refuses to help

“I don’t have an authority via executive order to require private employers to tell them how they...

New rules for reporters covering Governor Raimondo’s remote press conferences favor large media
April 8, 2020

New rules for reporters covering Governor Raimondo’s remote press conferences favor large media

“This is on the honor system. If you honestly think that you are more deserving of having...

April 8, 2020

The story I couldn’t write about the Wyatt

How does one trust that the detainees at the Wyatt are being properly cared for when those...

April 5, 2020

RI Pride rises to the occasion

“I desperately wanted to help my city through this crisis, but I’m just one person, with no...

RICAGV on Department of Homeland Security deeming gun stores “essential”
April 3, 2020

RICAGV on Department of Homeland Security deeming gun stores “essential”

We would point out that the First Amendment allows for the ‘right of the people peaceably to...

April 2, 2020

Coronavirus exposes deep problems in Rhode Island’s healthcare system

Years of public health funding cuts have left Rhode Islanders vulnerable… Coronavirus is creating a rapidly escalating...

An open letter to Governor Raimondo and the ACI regarding COVID-19
April 2, 2020

An open letter to Governor Raimondo and the ACI regarding COVID-19

The letter is from Bruce Reilly, J.D., a prison reform advocate in New Orleans, LA, the most...