Last August, something surprising happened in little Rhody. The state built a new 10-cent toll on the Sakonnet River Bridge, which spans the bay from Portsmouth to Tiverton. Somebody set fire to the the toll at 1 a.m. on a Saturday, just two days before it was to take effect. The next day, hundreds ...
This week, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 announced the launch of an Environmental Change Task Force at Brown. He described the group as “charged with recommending actions that members of the Brown community might take, beyond campus-based sustainability efforts and discussion of divestiture, ...
In the wake of last week’s end to the government shutdown, a slew of national commentary has focused on an apparent rift forming between the Tea Party and mainstream Republicans. But here in Rhode Island, a local political rift appears to be brewing in the Democratic Party. Disagreements over the ...
The federal government is the third biggest employer in Rhode Island and employs about 11,581 people in the state. About 7,000 of these people have already been furloughed. The government shutdown will have an impact on Rhode Island, even now that employees are sure they will receive back pay. Given ...
Today, the people of Rhode Island find themselves in a simmering education debate, and this is nothing new. Throughout history, the Ocean State has had a rocky relationship with public education. But rarely is the long history of public education in Rhode Island taken into account when discussing the ...
Rhode Island is an old state and a small state. There is not ample room for natural resource extraction or constructing new communities in the wilderness. This is not Texas. Yet when thinking about economics, Rhode Islanders compare their state to such places and ask, “What are we doing wrong in Rhode ...
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