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CRMC to vote on Providence LNG plant despite calls for chair’s resignation
Despite outcry over conflict of interest, racial bias, and growing calls for resignation of the Chairperson, the Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) is proceeding with the third and final consistency hearing for the liquefied nat...
Refugee Dream Center awarded a children’s library of books by SCBWI
[caption id="attachment_3686" align="alignright" width="400"] Knight Jean and Omar Bah[/caption] Rhode Island’s Refugee Dream Center, a post resettlement refugee agency, was one of two organizations chosen from over 300 nominations as re...
Providence introduces PVD Safe Stations, for those seeking treatment for addiction
Beginning on January 2, 2018, and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, "any person can visit one of Providence’s 12 fire stations, speak with public safety officials on duty and immediately get connected to treatment support for...
Invenergy's lawsuit against National Grid may put 'tens of millions' of construction costs on ratepayers
[caption id="attachment_3366" align="alignright" width="350"] Jerry Elmer[/caption] There will be both a hearing and an open meeting of the Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) Tuesday morning, December 12, starting at 9:30am. (see belo...
DACAmented: The Documentary
“I grew up in a neighborhood in DC often known as ‘Little Central America’ and I went to middle and high school with immigrants from all over the world, several of whom were undocumented,” notes filmmaker St. Clair Detrick-Jules, “so whe...
Second meeting of the Special Legislative Committee to Study the Energy Facilities Siting Act
The Special Legislative Committee to Study the Energy Facilities Siting Act held its second meeting on Thursday, December 7 in the Rhode Island State House. The meeting consisted of two presentations, the first from Michael McElroy, who...
The ACLU announces a settlement involving public breastfeeding law
The ACLU of Rhode Island today announced a settlement in its case on behalf of Elizabeth Gooding who, in May 2017, sued the Ocean Community YMCA for violating her right to breastfeed in public. Parties in the lawsuit have agreed to a res...
Jack Reed: We need legislation to protect Net Neutrality
[caption id="attachment_3585" align="alignright" width="400"] Jack Martin, Jack Reed and Paola Prado[/caption] Net Neutrality, said Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed on Friday, is “a consumer right and it’s also a free speech right… If the...
Providence joins nationwide protest to save Net Neutrality
Two dozen protesters took to the sidewalk outside the Verizon store on Waterman Street in Providence to save Net Neutrality. Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Ajit Pai, a former top Verizon lawyer, is seeking t...
One more time: The EFSB comes to Burrillville
The second last Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) public testimony hearing in Burrillville had an easy familiarity to it. Everyone seemed more relaxed because everyone had been here before. The board itself came off the stage of the...