January 19, 2020

Senate Leadership threatens passage of childhood sexual abuse legislation

Representative Carol Hagan McEntee (Democrat, District 33, South Kingstown, Narragansett) and Senator Donna Nesselbush (Democrat, District 15,...

March 2, 2020

Photos from 2019 RI Pride

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January 19, 2020

The Seventh Annual Red Bandana Awards ceremony

Note: Thank you very much to the Red Bandana Fund for awarding me the Red Bandana Award...

June 17, 2019

ACLU: Lawsuit over immigrant detentions could affect detainees being held in Central Falls

A recently-filed ACLU class-action lawsuit challenging the government’s practice of denying due process to detained immigrants could...

March 2, 2020

Providence’s First Annual People of Color Dyke and Trans March

Every year, around the country, Dyke and Trans Marches are held “to give voice to communities either...

February 27, 2020

Andy Boardman: House budget proposal – Three winners and three losers

While you were sleeping Friday night, House leaders unveiled their state budget proposal for the coming fiscal...

October 31, 2019

Reproductive Privacy Act passes out of Committee and onto Senate Floor

On Thursday the Senate Health and Human Services Committee (HHS) passed the Reproductive Privacy Act (RPA), H5125B,...

January 19, 2020

Ysanel Torres: Every second, every moment, every breath: They mean everything….

There’s this thing about time that I’ll never understand The way it never ends even when it...

October 31, 2019

Senate rule violation letter from Senators Morgan and de la Cruz

Senators Jessica de la Cruz (Republican, District 23, Burrillville, Glocester) and Senator Elaine Morgan (Republican, District 34,...

January 19, 2020

Faith leaders rally at the State House to demand safer schools

Faith leaders and youth organizers with the One Gun Gone Project met today at the Rhode Island...

March 2, 2020

Reverend Dr Gwendolyn Howard: “Real life examples” of what happens when transgender people have equal rights

On June 10th, the Providence Journal posted an Op-ed by David Carlin. In it, the author makes...

October 31, 2019

Unable to get the Reproductive Privacy Act out of Judiciary, in a surprise move, Senator Lynch Prata transfers the bill to Senate Health

Senator Erin Lynch Prata (Democrat, District 31, Warwick, Cranston), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, today surprised...

October 31, 2019

Knowing they can’t prove the power plant is needed on the merits, Invenergy attempts to baffle the EFSB with bullshit

In the 1990s, many northeastern states, including Rhode Island, restructured (or deregulated) utility markets. Before restructuring, electrical...

October 31, 2019

Herb Weiss: Religious groups urge House to combat antisemitism and racism

For the second year in a row, the Rhode Island General Assembly’s Senate Judiciary Committee heard a...

June 11, 2019

The Cities of Providence and Central Falls sued the Trump Administration and won

United States District Court Judge John McConnell today issued a blistering decision against United States Attorney General...