March 12, 2021

Monica Huertas and Joshua Kestin: Senator Dawn Euer is blocking environmental justice

The community of South Providence, which has some of the highest asthma rates in the entire country,...

March 10, 2021

Dr Anita Kestin: Choice, Freedom, and Single Payer

Rationing care has also been described as un-American but the current system rations care by economic status,...

March 4, 2021

Oped: Rhode Island needs a dedicated source of funding for affordable housing

“Our bill creates, for the first time, a dedicated, consistent stream of funding to support affordable housing...

February 24, 2021

Dr Mark Ryan: Tax-payer subsidized private health insurance can’t make coverage affordable

“We must stop relying on taxpayer-subsidized, for-profit insurance companies that cannot do the job we need done:...

February 17, 2021

Jameson Boyd: Cashless businesses are illegal for retailers in RI, so why is the Newport Bridge an exception?

As a Rhode Islander who has commuted through Newport on low wages in a borrowed car, tired...

February 14, 2021

Coalition to future Governor McKee: Tax the rich and invest in housing, economic justice and decarceration

“It’s time for the richest among us to pay their fair share, especially if we want to...

February 10, 2021

Phil Eil: Post-insurrection Republican call for “unity” is more deception

Listening to Republicans, you might forget that this was a coordinated, deadly attack on our most sacred...

February 9, 2021

‘Yes On 5’ Campaign launches in support of $15 million child care facilities bond question

$15 million investment would create more child care seats, improve early learning spaces for kids, and help...

Dr Jim Cowan: Is “clinically appropriate” a new way for health insurers to deny care?
February 8, 2021

Dr Jim Cowan: Is “clinically appropriate” a new way for health insurers to deny care?

This undefined term ‘clinically appropriate’ has been added 13 times to an amended version of a telemedicine...

February 8, 2021

Dr Keith Corl: As the pandemic enters its second year, the toll it extracts from health care workers has mutated

Few patients die of COVID-19 at home, so nearly every one of the 460,000 Americans who have...

February 4, 2021

Don’t widen I-95. Bury it.

Slicing Providence in half was a crime perpetrated by the planners of the interstate highway system, and...

February 4, 2021

Sunrise statement on the 2021 Act on Climate Bill

“…the Act on Climate Bill won’t produce meaningful action on climate change until approximately 2028. We have...

February 3, 2021

RI Senate to hear $15 minimum wage bills today

Nearly one-third of all female workers, over one-third of Black workers and nearly half of Latinx workers...

February 3, 2021

Sunrise RI opposes Raimondo’s CRMC re-appointments

Approving these re-appointments further affirms and excuses the undemocratic and racist process for approving the Fields Point...