Supporting Speaker Nicholas Mattiello (Democrat, District 15, Cranston) may be politically costly to some legislators. Many Rhode Islanders are expressing the opinion that support for the Speaker means that a legislator has expressed at least …
On exactly what grounds are Conservative Democrats, Rhode Island House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello and Senate President Dominick Ruggiero, blocking the Reproductive Heath Care Act (RHCA) from consideration? That it’s unnecessary? I remember a motion congratulating …
Saying that he would put his “put my environmental record against this Governor’s any day,” Cranston Mayor Allan Fung, the Republican challenger to incumbent Democrat Gina Raimondo for Governor of Rhode Island, declared to the …
Women from Rhode Island and across the Atlantic gathered at the First Unitarian Church of Providence on Sunday afternoon to share powerful, personal stories about why they support the Reproductive Health Care Act (RHCA) (The …
In the wake of Justice Anthony Kennedy resigning from the United States Supreme Court on July 31st, The Woman Project organized a rally at the Rhode Island State House to call upon the leadership of …
In response to the announcement of United Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy‘s imminent retirement, State Representative Aaron Regunberg (Democrat, District 4, Providence) called on the Rhode Island General Assembly to return immediately for an emergency …
Indivisible Rhode Island hosted its second “Better Know a Rhode Island Candidate” event at Westminster Unitarian Church in East Greenwich. Five candidates for office were given time to address the audience and take some questions. …
The Matt Brown for Governor campaign has released a letter, signed by prominent women’s rights advocate Gloria Steinem, former NARAL Pro-Choice America (NARAL) President Emerita Kate Michelman, Barbara Roberts of the Warren Alpert Medical School of …
The Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee took up the Reproductive Health Care Act (RHCA) (S2163/H7340) on Thursday, a bill that would codify the protections of Roe v Wade into Rhode Island State Law. The bill was …
Ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Reproductive Health Care Act (RHCA), The Woman Project held a press conference drawing a parallel between Ireland, the extremely Catholic country that just voted, by a …
Copyright © 2017 Uprise RI