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Parents and advocates urge House Speaker to pass H5707 to modernize outdated parentage laws
Rhode Island urgently needs to update our parentage laws which haven’t changed since the 1970’s. The Senate unanimously passed the Parentage Act; parents and community advocates are pressing the Speaker to bring it to the floor for a vot...
No time to wait: The Rhode Island Senate needs to raise the minimum wage this year, and here's how
Tell your Senator - tell all the Senators - that you want them to amend the 2020 Rhode Island State Budget to include the minimum wage increase the Senate already approved. The Rhode Island House of Representatives approved the 2020 Budg...
The House passes the 2020 Rhode Island State Budget - All the video
House deliberations on the 2020 Rhode Island State Budget (H5151A) were to begin at 2pm on Friday but instead began over two and a half hours late. As a result, the Budget discussion was recessed around 10pm and taken up the next day, Sa...
As the RI House passes the 2020 Budget, Representative Walsh criticizes the Speaker and the process
Walsh called for greater transparency in the Budget process and warned that the $1M for a Cranston chiropractor may not be the only secret waste of taxpayer money "I apologize in advance to my Republican colleagues [because] I am gonna b...
Celebrating World Refuge Day with the Refugee Dream Center
The Refugee Dream Center held their annual World Refugee Day celebration in South Providence on Saturday where hundreds of people were treated to food, music and access to important information and services. United States Representative...
DARE bill to establish fair occupational licenses stalls in the House
“It’s not right that people have served their time and still can’t make a living and support their families,” said Meko Lincoln, a member of DARE's Behind the Walls Committee. Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE), the Fair Chance...
ACLU: blogger subjected to court “gag order” after he posted a blog about Hopkinton resident
In a case raising important First Amendment issues for the Internet age, the ACLU of Rhode Island has taken on the defense of a Massachusetts blogger who was ordered by a Rhode Island Superior Court judge to “immediately remove” from his...
Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence: Astonishing analysis shows gun violence costs Rhode Islanders $95 million a year
New report shows how gun violence impacts communities and taxpayers of the state A new analysis from Giffords Law Center, The Economic Cost of Gun Violence in Rhode Island, finds that the directly measurable cost of gun violence in Rhode...
Young Democrats: Statement on Speaker Mattiello’s Budget
The Young Democrats of Rhode Island are disappointed but not surprised by the decisions that were released in Speaker Mattiello’s budget last Friday. The Speaker has consistently proven to support his cronies in government over hard work...
Experts in the field of psychiatry and neuroscience implore the General Assembly to fund programs proven to work, not Victor Pedro
Actual doctors, experts in the fields of psychiatry and neuroscience, released a letter today challenging the science and efficacy of Victor Pedro's Cortical Integrative Therapy, for which Pedro has already received nearly $2M in State f...