Peace
The entire Rhode Island delegation signed on to the War Powers Act for Yemen
No Endless War and Excessive Militarism (NEWEM) is very excited and pleased about the events of the last seventeen days, a period that culminated Saturday …
Sheldon Whitehouse
Peace
Demand Progress demands Reed and Whitehouse vote to end war in Yemen
Demand Progress is urging Rhode Island Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, both Democrats, to vote to stop United States involvement in the War in …
Peace
Whitehouse and Reed asked to vote to stop United States involvement in the War in Yemen
Peace activists visited the offices of United States Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat, Rhode Island) and Jack Reed (Democrat, Rhode Island) to deliver a petition and …
Reproductive Rights
Speaker Mattiello shares his current thinking on reproductive rights and codifying Roe v Wade
Rhode Island Speaker of the House Nicholas Mattiello has used his position to prevent the codification of Roe v Wade into Rhode Island State Law …
Elections 2018
Allan Fung in Burrillville
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 …
RIPTA
Test riding RIPTA’s new electric buses
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) has leased three new all electric buses for use in Providence. “This marks a major step toward a …
Elections 2018
Joe Biden comes to Providence to stump for Democrats ahead of November elections
“We have the three Trumpeteers from Rhode Island: Flanders, Fung and Bell, whose objective is to Trumpetize this state,” said Representative Joseph McNamara (Democrat, District …
Elections 2018
Pat Fontes: Help me to hold Sheldon Whitehouse accountable
This is Patricia J. Fontes, who ran – as Pat Fontes – a Democratic Party candidate in November 2018 for the United States Senate. This …
Elections 2018
Judge Flanders challenges Senator Whitehouse’s power plant ‘hypocrisy’
On Thursday, former Rhode Island Supreme Court Justice and Republican candidate for United States Senate Robert Flanders stood with the community of Burrillville and thirty-two …
Media
Sheldon Whitehouse condemns Trump administration’s escalating attacks on the media
[From a press release] Following the Trump administration’s decision to ban CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins from a press event after she questioned President Donald Trump …