October 31, 2019

Nesselbush introduces Senate resolution denouncing white nationalism and neo-Nazi groups in Rhode Island

Rhode Island State Senator Donna Nesselbush (Democrat, District 15, Pawtucket) has introduced a resolution (S0829) that denounces...

October 31, 2019

Nearly 100 people hold noon time, pro-choice protest at Rhode Island State House

The crowd generated by a first time organizer, unaffiliated with any local reproductive rights groups, demonstrates a...

March 2, 2020

Me and Chewbacca

About two decades ago, when I was running Atomic Comics, a comic book store, and writing comics...

May 20, 2019

ACLU: Cristian Aguasvivas likely to be tortured if returned to Dominican Republic

The American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants’ Rights Project and the ACLU of Rhode Island have today filed...

October 31, 2019

Burrillville: Invenergy power plant is unneeded and will cause unacceptable environmental harm

Invenergy Lacks Credibility – Application Still Incomplete and Substandard The Town of Burrillville filed its post hearing...

October 31, 2019

Invenergy’s final argument to the EFSB is kind of a mess…

Invenergy, the company that seeks to build a $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power...

May 18, 2019

DEM cites petroleum distributor for odors in Port of Providence

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) has issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) to Sprague...

January 19, 2020

Lauren Niedel: Glocester considers Second Amendment Sanctuary Town status

Glocester, on Thursday, became the sixth western Rhode Island location to hold a Second Amendment Sanctuary City...

October 31, 2019

Nancy Green: Cheap and easy virtue with the conscience clause

People forget history so quickly. The definition of conscience in ‘conscience clause’ is from the Bizzaro World...

January 19, 2020

Woonsocket City Council Race: Alex Kithes hits fundraising milestone

Alex Kithes’s campaign for Woonsocket City Council hit a major milestone on Thursday, surpassing their $10,000 fundraising...

October 31, 2019

CLF presents its final arguments to the EFSB against the proposed Invenergy power plant

Simply put: The power plant is not needed for electricity, the power plant will cause irreparable harm...

May 16, 2019

The quiet war on vaccines in the Rhode Island State house

There is a quiet war going on at the Rhode Island State House over vaccines. Currently, vaccines...

October 31, 2019

House Finance hears a bill to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies

While the Rhode Island State House reverberated with chants for and against abortion rights, a bill to...

October 31, 2019

Senate Judiciary Committee killed the Reproductive Health Care Act, but all hope is not lost…

Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected Senate Bill 152A Reproductive Health Care Act (RHCA) on a 5-4...

October 31, 2019

Senator Archambault declares himself the monkey in the wrench of reproductive rights

Senator Stephen Archambault (Democrat, District 22, Smithfield, Johnston, North Providence) just disrupted, in a major way, any...