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Despite all efforts, SNAP application processing got worse, not better, in February says report
In his latest update on the state’s compliance with a court order designed to ensure the timely provision of food stamp assistance to needy families, Special Master Deming Sherman indicated that the Rhode Island Department of Human Servi...
'Stop Endless War' says Rhode Island Anti-War Committee
At the corner of Exchange Street and Washington Street on the first Friday of every month, the Rhode Island Anti-War Committee holds a protest of the United States' "ballooning military budget that emphasizes violence and military interv...
Without DACA, Alpert Medical School student will be unable to practice medicine
I’ll remember that Saturday morning in the operating room for the rest of my life. While I’ve shadowed many surgeries before as part of my medical training, this was my first time scrubbing into a surgery. I scrubbed, gowned, and gloved...
Religion dominates the debate over death with dignity at the State House
At the end of our lives, some of us will endure terrible pain and a quality of life we find unendurable and without dignity. In Rhode Island we are not legally permitted to evade that fate. We are compelled to suffer and endure. Represen...
Rhode Island Campaign for Home Care Independence and Choice launched today
The Rhode Island Campaign for Home Care Independence and Choice, an effort to provide seniors and individuals living with physical disabilities more options when determining their long term care setting was launched at the Rhode Island S...
Raimondo announces Gun Safety Working Group
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo has had some success with tasking large working groups to tackle difficult subjects in the past, most notably her efforts in Medicaid and criminal justice. Her new working group will take on the diffic...
Maldonado bill to protect DREAMers heard in House Judiciary
Representative Shelby Maldonado's legislation, H7982, was heard in the House Committee on Judiciary late Tuesday evening. The legislation, the first of its kind in the country, is intended to “provide continued employability and drivers...
Jack Reed tours East Side Bus Tunnel
United States Senator Jack Reed (Democrat, Rhode Island) met with Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) officials to tour the East Side Bus Tunnel and discuss new federal funding to design and improve the tunnel, which is over 10...
Tanzi's sexual harassment commission hits the ground running
The first meeting of Rhode Island State Representative Teresa Tanzi's Special Legislative Commission to Study Unlawful Sexual Harassment in the Workplace met on Tuesday. The first meetings of some commissions are sometimes only organizat...
Religious leaders call for passage of the Reproductive Health Care Act
“We are religious leaders from a variety of faith traditions. As such, we walk separate but parallel paths in God’s direction,” said the Reverend Gene Dyszlewski from Lime Rock Baptist Church in Lincoln. “We share a striking commonality...