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Reproductive Privacy Act passes out of Committee and onto Senate Floor
On Thursday the Senate Health and Human Services Committee (HHS) passed the Reproductive Privacy Act (RPA), H5125B, out of committee and onto full consideration by the entire Senate as early as Tuesday. The RPA will codify the human righ...
Senate rule violation letter from Senators Morgan and de la Cruz
Senators Jessica de la Cruz (Republican, District 23, Burrillville, Glocester) and Senator Elaine Morgan (Republican, District 34, Exeter Hopkinton, Richmond, West Greenwich) today sent an open letter to Senate President Dominick Ruggeri...
Faith leaders rally at the State House to demand safer schools
Faith leaders and youth organizers with the One Gun Gone Project met today at the Rhode Island State House for a rally in support of H5762, the Safe Schools Act, a bill that seeks to ban concealed carry permit holders from bringing firea...
Unable to get the Reproductive Privacy Act out of Judiciary, in a surprise move, Senator Lynch Prata transfers the bill to Senate Health
Senator Erin Lynch Prata (Democrat, District 31, Warwick, Cranston), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, today surprised everyone by transferring the Reproductive Privacy Act (RPA) (H5125B) to the Senate Committee on Health and Hu...
Herb Weiss: Religious groups urge House to combat antisemitism and racism
For the second year in a row, the Rhode Island General Assembly’s Senate Judiciary Committee heard a resolution, introduced by State Senator Donna Nesselbush (Democrat, District 15, Pawtucket), calling on lawmakers to denounce and oppose...
The Cities of Providence and Central Falls sued the Trump Administration and won
United States District Court Judge John McConnell today issued a blistering decision against United States Attorney General William Barr, and in favor of the Cities of Providence and Central Falls. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions w...
Rhode Island Coalition for Reproductive Freedom: Revised Reproductive Privacy Act properly codifies Roe into state law
The Rhode Island Coalition for Reproductive Freedom issued the following statement this afternoon: "The Reproductive Privacy Act (H5125B) achieves the goal of preserving the current legal framework protecting the right to safe, legal abo...
Democratic Socialists of America: We oppose Raimondo's nomination of former National Grid lawyer to head the PUC
Amid chants of "Rescind the nomination," Governor Gina Raimondo arrived home yesterday evening to the sight about twenty members of the Providence chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (ProvDSA) and their allies who had come to...
Patricia Burke: Raimondo's PUC pick needs scrutiny for National Grid connections
Various news outlets have reported that Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo has nominated former National Grid lawyer Laura Olton to chair the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission (RIPUC). The Providence Journal reported a small but...
Members of the George Wiley Center take over the Board
I arrived at the George Wiley Center action outside the Pawtucket Public Library Saturday morning with only a sleight idea about what was going to take place. I talked to Zainab Ilumoka, who would later that day be elected the new Presid...