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Groups press Raimondo to nominate PUC Chair who will fight climate change and corporate greed
Coalition of local grassroots organizations and Rhode Islanders calls on Governor Gina Raimondo to appoint a new Public Utilities Commission Chair who will support a just transition away from fossil fuels A group of local grassroots orga...
Never Again Action and AMOR demand action from Governor Raimondo
"Next week is the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. We are giving the Governor until then to take action to join our fight. Otherwise—just as we would have wanted people to do during past moments of state-sponsored violence against our communiti...
RIDE is sitting on the 2019 RICAS scores
There is not much point in getting into too much speculation about why RIDE is behind schedule releasing the scores, but it should be noted that they are behind schedule releasing the scores at a time when those scores could impact the d...
Wyatt Board violated both the Open Meetings Act and the Access to Public Records Act, determines RI Attorney General in pair of decisions
"Accordingly, in accordance with the APRA, the Corporation is directed to respond to the Complainant within ten business days regarding the specifics as to [detainees'] name, age, country of origin, and specifics of why the [detainee) is...
Providence resident Chan Chhoeur enters ICE custody for deportation proceedings
"Today is the last day we'll see Chan. Another person lost to the deportation machine." Chan Chhoeur says he wasn't born in Cambodia. Though Chhoeur is of Cambodian descent, he's a citizen of Thailand, brought to the United States as an...
Central Falls City Council approves James Lombardi III to chair Wyatt Board
"Obviously we are in the midst of a lawsuit with the bondholders at the Wyatt, and there is, hanging over any board appointment … the fact that the City is embroiled in the middle of that..." The Central Falls City Council voted to appro...
Central Falls City Council creates Affordable Housing Fund
City Council President Maria Rivera notes that this is the first affordable housing fund in the city’s history. The Central Falls City Council approved Monday night, by a unanimous vote, the creation of an Affordable Housing Fund. Develo...
My child attends a school with a three percent proficiency rate, and it is OK for us
Last week The Public's Radio's Ian Donnis quoted Rhode Island Commissioner of Education Angélica Infante-Green in a piece on what schools Providence politicians choose for their own children: "Nobody wants to send their child somewhere e...
RI Transit Riders: Kennedy Plaza tunnel idea 'virtually dead on arrival' and 'ridiculous'
"...cars are like dinosaurs waiting for their asteroid, and we have to think about how people are going to move around the state when cars are gone…" Rhode Island Transit Riders, an independent grassroots organization devoted to promotin...
Dr Anthony Rodriguez: Providence College must do better for students of color
I am a recipient of the 2011 Golden Apple Excellence in Teaching Award in the State of New Mexico. A talented high school football player is more likely to be drafted in the NFL, than a talented, hardworking teacher is of winning this es...