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Carbon capture as a way to combat climate change
[caption id="attachment_4221" align="alignright" width="400"] Graciela Chichilnisky[/caption] Dr Graciela Chichilnisky, lead author on the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), spoke at the Rhode Island Sc...
Mattiello: House to 'reflect the public's will' regarding PawSox
Republican Steven Frias, who ran a close race against Speaker Nicholas Mattiello (Democrat, District 15, Cranston) last election, issued a not-so-subtle warning to his opponent at the Senate Finance Committee meeting about the PawSox leg...
RIDOT controlled the message on 6/10 Connector
One of the key ways that the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) controlled the message on the 6/10 Connector and ensured that it would not be built as a boulevard was by controlling the format of suburban meetings. As some...
Opposition grows against Tax Stabilization Investment Act in Providence
[caption id="attachment_4165" align="alignright" width="400"] Jenna Karlin[/caption] A unique and diverse coalition of community organizations, labor unions and concerned Providence residents co-signed a letter to Providence City Council...
Officials kick-off 6/10 Connector repairs
[caption id="attachment_4138" align="alignright" width="350"] Gina Raimondo[/caption] "For too long, the disrepair of this interchange symbolized Rhode Island's failure to invest in ourselves," said Governor Gina Raimondo. "Today, we're...
IUPAT begins national worker education campaign on TPS and DACA at worksites around the United States
The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) kicked off a nationwide campaign Monday "designed to educate immigrant construction workers on a multitude of issues including wage theft and changes to immigration policy tha...
Providence rescinds new gang database policy amid community concerns
[caption id="attachment_4100" align="alignright" width="350"] Jeffrey Dana[/caption] The day after receiving a letter that charged the Providence Police Department with violating the newly enacted Community Safety Act (CSA) through its n...
New Providence Police gang database policy violates Community Safety Act, maintains PrYSM
The newly created Intelligence Assessment Database "blatantly and unequivocally" violates the Community Safety Act (CSA) maintains attorney Shannah Kurland in a letter to Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza and City Solicitor Jeffrey Dana. Kur...
10th Annual Fighting Poverty with Faith Vigil unveils its 2018 legislative agenda
[caption id="attachment_4015" align="alignleft" width="400"] Nikita McCalister[/caption] "Standing here surrounded by more than 60 clergy persons reminds me that faith leaders participated in the ratification of the United States Constit...
Update on ACLU lawsuit against state over “Harrington Hall” law: Shelter will not turn people away
Below is a summary - prepared by ACLU of Rhode Island volunteer attorney Lynette Labinger - of today’s court conference before Judge William Smith in the ACLU’s challenge to the state law which caps the number of registered sex offenders...