Opinion
Editorial pieces from contributors and staff
Providence City Council wants more tax breaks for millionaires; Protest planned for Thursday City Council meeting
Do councilmembers care about the working people of Providence as much as they care about bribing millionaires to beautify downtown? If so, the least they can do is require that developers provide high-quality jobs: decent pay, full-time...
Brown University responds to divestment vote
I'm writing about the piece posted yesterday regarding recommendations for divestment at Brown. I see that the author is noted as Brown Divest but it's labeled as news (not opinion or commentary) [Editor's note: This was an oversight and...
Brown University committee votes to divest from companies “facilitating human rights violations in Palestine”
The Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies voted 6-2-1 in favor of divestment. On December 2nd, 2019, the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies (ACCRIP) voted in favor of div...
The Uprising! November 29, 2019
Today is Black Friday, but for some of us, this is Buy Nothing Day, a protest against consumerism and out-of-control capitalism. In Providence, outside the State House and at other locations throughout the state, there was the But Nothin...
Dear Senator Metts: Invoking religious beliefs in lawmaking is wrong
"I’m certain that Metts had lasting, positive relationships with students in this role, though I do wonder if those relationships would have been different if Vice Principal Metts knew that the student was a member of the LGBTQ+ communit...
Tom Ward and his criticisms are uninvited
On Thursday November 14th, I attended a protest at the Boston Globe’s Charting Rhode Island's Future event, where Governor Gina Raimondo was speaking. Our intention was to bring Governor Raimondo’s flagrant disregard for the environmenta...
The Rhode Island Democratic Party needs new leadership
"The whole event was an embarrassing, shameful display of abuse of power. The incompetence was staggering. It’s time to start paying attention to who is making our decisions..." Sometimes when you do the same job for years, you lose the...
The Uprising! November 22, 2019
"With great power comes great responsibility," wrote the great philosopher Stan Lee in 1962, a lesson seemingly lost on the Rhode Island Democratic Party (RIDP). This week the RIDP voted for new bylaws that limit the fundraising, messagi...
Lobbyist members of the RI Democratic State Committee vote in the interests of their clients, not the party
The Rhode Island Democratic Party State Committee held a vote Monday night to adopt new bylaws that were created and rushed through an approval process for the purpose of limiting the efforts, speech and finances of the Women's Caucus. M...
An open letter from District 40 Committeewoman Lauren Niedel-Gresh on last night's RI Democratic Party meeting
"The best thing that can happen right now is for the whole shameful process to blow up in the Party’s face. My suggestion: Do not attend any fundraisers by the committee or endorsed candidates. Do not donate to the party." Rhode Island D...