Running on a platform of environmental sustainability, clean energy and educational reform, Solomon Goldstein-Rose ’16 is campaigning for a seat representing the Third Hampshire District, which includes Amherst, in the Massachusetts legislature. Winning a seat as state representative while at school ...
The work of the Rhode Island Justice Reinvestment Working Group, assembled by Gov. Gina Raimondo to improve the state’s criminal justice system, seems poised to come to fruition as the anniversary of its July 2015 inception draws nearer. According to the Council of State Governments Justice Center’s ...
In just a few weeks, 12 students will be standing in the middle of a Greek colonial site — Empúries — founded in 575 B.C. in Spain, where they will examine artifacts as part of their fieldwork, said Peter Van Dommelen, professor of archaeology and anthropology. During reading period, the members ...
Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magaziner ’06 gave a lecture titled “Promoting a Clean Economy: The Policy and Legislative Process Behind the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank” in the Joukowsky Forum on Wednesday. The event focused on the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank’s capabilities to ...
In contrast to previous trends, the 2016 election cycle has seen online polling used more often than traditional telephone polls. But while online polling is cheaper than telephone polling and has produced more reliable results in certain recent contests, its methods have drawn skepticism from polling ...
As marijuana sweeps to the center of public debate, protestors and progressives — like those who tried to inflate a 51-foot joint replica in front of the White House last week — have been at the forefront of the legalization movement. During Tuesday’s forum at the Warren Alpert Medical School, ...
Rhode Island will use a $13 million federal grant to finance a new Enhanced Transit Corridor in downtown Providence, announced Gov. Gina Raimondo, Mayor Jorge Elorza, the congressional delegation and Rhode Island Public Transit Authority March 14. The corridor will provide buses every five minutes along ...
Though English language learners constitute 7 percent of the public school population in Rhode Island, the Ocean State is currently one of only four states that do not have designated funding for English language learners. Gov. Gina Raimondo submitted a revised education funding formula to the Rhode ...
The Providence City Council voted unanimously March 3 to support efforts to memorialize victims of the transatlantic slave trade and their descendants. The resolution formalizes the council’s support of the work being done by the Rhode Island branch of the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers ...
Over 100 Rhode Islanders gathered at a Statehouse hearing Tuesday evening to demonstrate support for a bill that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driving privilege licenses, which would grant driving permission but not serve as a state ID. The bill aims to increase road safety and ameliorate ...
The Corporation authorized a 4.1 percent tuition hike for the 2016-2017 academic year last month. This increase is consistent with past years — after a 4.4 percent increase for the current academic year and a 3.8 percent increase for the previous year — as the cost of higher education continues ...
NARAL Pro-Choice America — a national reproductive rights advocacy group — awarded Rhode Island an F in January in its annual scorecard of states’ reproductive freedom. The ranking puts Rhode Island in the same company as Texas and South Carolina. Rhode Island had received a D+ grade the previous ...
This story is the third in a three-part series about Syrians in Providence and at Brown. Tarek was pulling up to his apartment building when he heard the missiles. There was no siren — just the sound of mortar shells soaring into the ground in front of his building and the dull thuds that followed. ...
SEC charges RICC with fraud The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a complaint against the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation and underwriter Wells Fargo Securities, accusing them of willfully misleading investors when they offered bonds for video game company 38 Studios, the Providence Journal ...
Medical marijuana patients and advocates gathered at the State House Feb. 23 to protest the new “tagging fee” for medical marijuana included in Gov. Gina Raimondo’s recent budget proposal, unveiled Feb. 2. Though state officials argue that the proposal provides better access for Rhode Island’s ...
The Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the City of Providence over a zoning law prohibiting more than three college students from living in a single-family home together, according to a Feb. 23 press release. The suit was filed on behalf of four Johnson and Wales ...
This story is the second in a three-part series about Syrians in Providence and at Brown. A crowd of anti-regime protesters started to gather around the Sunni Al-Fawaz Mosque in Al-Raqqah, Syria. Yazen Alani ’18 watched from his bedroom window as the group swelled. Years before, his great-grandfather ...
This story is the first in a three-part series about Syrians in Providence and at Brown University. Students and community members gathered at the State House Monday to protest the non-profit organization Americans for Peace and Tolerance, which assembled to ask Gov. Gina Raimondo to rescind her welcome ...
Providence ‘resurgence’ “We are ready for our resurgence, and that resurgence begins now,” said Mayor Jorge Elorza at his State of the City address last week. Though Providence currently faces a $13.44 million budget deficit, new sources of revenue appear to be emerging to help revamp the city’s ...
On Thursday, homeowners and tenants from South Providence and Brown students gathered in front of the mayor’s office in City Hall to protest the EveryHome initiative. The initiative, announced in October 2015, aims to renew or demolish every abandoned home in Providence over the next six years. The ...
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