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Full video: Rhode Island codifies Roe v Wade into State Law
It took a little over two hours for the Rhode Island Senate to pass the Reproductive Privacy Act, H5125B, a bill to codify the protections of Roe v Wade into Rhode Island State Law. Outside the chamber, anti-choice protesters were chanti...
Governor Gina Raimondo signs bill codifying Roe v Wade into Rhode Island State Law
Tonight immediately following its passage by the General Assembly, Governor Gina M. Raimondo, surrounded by legislators and women's health advocates, signed into law the historic Reproductive Privacy Act. https://youtu.be/CywIc521t3g Gov...
Speaker Mattiello's office defends $1M budget item for alternative medicine chiropractor
Speaker Nicholas Mattiello "believes the state should be committed to providing appropriate resources to a program offering unique care and treatment in difficult cases and that gives individuals an improved quality of life, enabling the...
Economic Progress Institute: New brief analyzes how federal investments have improved RI's Child Care Assistance Program as Congress debates $2.4B expansion of child care funding
Additional federal funding would allow Rhode Island to make quality child care more affordable for a larger number of low-income working parents. Last year, Rhode Island received an additional $5.1M in federal funds to assist low-income...
Who is Dr Victor Pedro and why is he receiving $1M in the 2020 RI State Budget?
Update: 9:20AM: I caught Dr Victor Pedro outside his office this morning: https://youtu.be/h3Ug5g230Us Dr Victor Pedro has a practice on Park Avenue in Cranston, and seems to be the world's only practitioner of an alternative form of med...
Video from the House 2020 Budget Briefing
Speaker Nicholas Mattiello (Democrat, District 15, Cranston) held a legislative 2020 Budget briefing yesterday in the State House Lounge. The media were invited to attend. Mattiello, flanked on the right by Finance Committee Chair Marvin...
Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless: General Assembly rejects $2.7M in federal dollars to help end chronic homelessness in Rhode Island
By removing $500,000 for a social impact bond project (also known as Pay for Success), the General Assembly is leaving nearly $3 million dollars on the table in federal funding to help chronically homeless Rhode Islanders. “Pay for Succe...
Senate Leadership threatens passage of childhood sexual abuse legislation
Representative Carol Hagan McEntee (Democrat, District 33, South Kingstown, Narragansett) and Senator Donna Nesselbush (Democrat, District 15, Pawtucket) have been working for years to pass bills that would extend or eliminate the statut...
ACLU: Lawsuit over immigrant detentions could affect detainees being held in Central Falls
A recently-filed ACLU class-action lawsuit challenging the government’s practice of denying due process to detained immigrants could directly affect the continued jailing of some of the immigrant detainees now being held at the Wyatt Det...
Andy Boardman: House budget proposal - Three winners and three losers
While you were sleeping Friday night, House leaders unveiled their state budget proposal for the coming fiscal year. The nearly 500-page document, handed to House Finance Committee members, reporters and lobbyists (literally) hot off the...