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Governor Raimondo signs executive order to protect Obamacare from the Trump Administration
Governor Gina Raimondo today signed an executive order to protect the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, from the Trump administration's ongoing attempts to undermine the program. The executive order charges state agencies, includ...
Starwood Energy Group to acquire Manchester Street Power Station from Dominion as part of a $1.23 billion deal
[Note this story has been updated for clarity.] Dominion Energy has reached an agreement to sell the Manchester Street Power Station to Starwood Energy Group, a private investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut that "specializes in...
RIPTA talks electric busses and the 'Autonomous Vehicle Pilot Project' - Also: Free fare for all?
Electric Busses: At RIPTA's Board of Directors meeting held Monday in Kennedy Plaza, CEO Scott Avedisian spoke briefly about the three new electric busses the company invested in with settlement money from Volkswagon. RIPTA is the Rhode...
At a contentious meeting, North Smithfield Town Council rescinds anti-Nike resolution
The North Smithfield Town Council held a special meeting Monday evening with the sole purpose of rescinding an anti-Nike, anti-Colin Kaepernick resolution passed one week ago that caused public outrage and made national news. Council Pre...
John Beauregard: I will make a motion to recall the vote on the Nike Resolution
A press release from North Smithfield Town Council President John Beauregard: "At the North Smithfield Town Council meeting this past Monday I proposed a resolution only 'requesting' Town departments refrain from doing business with Nike...
North Smithfield Town Council passes resolution against Nike products and Colin Kaepernick
In all, twenty people stepped up to the podium during Monday night's North Smithfield Town Council meeting to speak against a resolution requesting that "the School Department as well as other departments of the Town refrain from purchas...
When Allan Fung blocked her on Twitter, she filed an APRA request
On September 14 Lindsay Crudele, a resident of Dorchester Massachusetts, discovered that she had been blocked on Twitter by the Republican candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, Cranston Mayor Allan Fung. Crudele is a professional digit...
Waterfire (and the Climate Crisis) sponsored by National Grid
As the National Grid sponsored Waterfire began, activists from Climate Action Rhode Island and the George Wiley Center, in concert with more than 200 activists and protesters from a variety of climate, poverty and labor groups, staged mu...
Representative Ranglin-Vassell statement on shooting death of William Parsons, 15
Representative Marcia Ranglin-Vassell (Democrat, District 5, Providence) has released a statement on the shooting death of 15-year-old William Parsons outside the Providence Career and Technical Academy Wednesday afternoon. “It is with d...
Prison Strike Solidarity Noise Demo makes contact with people incarcerated at the ACI
Incarcerated people in at least 17 prisons across the United States have been on strike since August 21. These strikes are expected to last until September 9. On Saturday, members of Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee PVD and thei...