Sen. Jack Reed, D-RI, came to campus Sunday to give a talk entitled “The Challenges of a Turbulent World” as part of the Watson Distinguished Speaker Series. Reed grew up in Cranston before earning a bachelor’s degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, a master’s degree in ...
The United States cannot divorce itself from the “disruptive forces” of the global world, Sen. Jack Reed, D-RI, told an audience of Brown and Providence community members Sunday during a lecture that was part of the Watson Distinguished Speaker Series. Reed encouraged audience members to “align ...
Rhode Island government gets low grade for integrity The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that seeks to use investigative journalism to expose abuses of power, gave Rhode Island a “D+” in its 2015 State Integrity Investigation. But despite the low mark, the Ocean ...
Intellectually and developmentally disabled workers within Rhode Island sheltered workshops — institutions that employ mainly individuals with disabilities — are still being abused on the job, despite the announcement of a consent decree with the state by the U.S. Department of Justice. The decree ...
Mayor Jorge Elorza issued the first executive order of his administration Nov. 3, commissioning an advisory council designed to reduce gun violence in the city. Citing the economic and public health tolls that gun crimes take on Providence, Elorza’s spokesperson Evan England said the effect of “illegal ...
Rep. David Cicilline ’83, D-R.I., will host his first civic engagement event — the Town Hall for the Next Generation — focused on engaging young adults in Rhode Island at the Providence G Ballroom this Thursday. Cicilline spoke with The Herald about the importance of today’s youth in the legislative ...
The Providence Police Department has a new tool to strengthen law enforcement against people drinking and driving: the BAT mobile. A $350,000 grant from the Rhode Island Department of Transportation’s Office of Highway Safety allowed PPD to purchase a 40-foot-long vehicle, the blood alcohol testing ...
Professional Ambulance, a Providence-based ambulance company located on River Avenue, was raided by federal investigators in late October but is not currently facing any criminal or civil charges and remains fully operational, said the company’s lawyer, Matthew Dawson of Lynch and Pine Attorneys at ...
Assorted costumed characters — including Mario, Loki and a ukulele-playing Marshall Lee — migrated to downtown Providence last weekend, claiming the Rhode Island Convention Center and the Dunkin’ Donuts Center as their own. Attendees lined up for photographs on the Iron Throne and autographs from ...
The Providence Board of Licenses met Monday to discuss the fate of El Tiburon, a sports bar that closed after an Oct. 17 shooting there injured three people. At the meeting, officials looked at crime scene photos of the incident. The suspect, Michael Stokes, is still at large. The board did not make ...
In an effort to curb illegal trash dumping — a crime that costs the city around $300,000 a year — Providence installed eight security cameras throughout the city this fall. “Almost as soon as they went up,” the cameras were “remarkably effective in preventing the dumping,” said Evan England, ...
Murals celebrate color, cleanliness On Kinsley Street in Providence, students of the MET — a network of six small public high schools in Providence and Newport — are painting storm drains to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining the cleanliness of the Woonasquatucket River into which ...
Political posturing is responsible for the Syrian refugee crisis, said Stephen Kinzer, senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, beginning a discussion of the crisis with an overview of the tensions that led to the international sociopolitical turmoil. The hour-long ...
Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote a letter to the Pawtucket School District urging it to reconsider the presence of school resource officers in its schools, as well as the current Memorandum of Understanding between the school district ...
Amazon.com, Inc. is building a 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center in Fall River, Massachusetts, that will open in roughly one year. Workers broke ground on the center — which will receive, process and fill incoming orders from Amazon — on Oct. 19. Amazon hopes to accomplish as much construction ...
As part of a statewide economic development strategy, Gov. Gina Raimondo and the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation launched a website specifically aimed at empowering Latino entrepreneurs, according to an October press release. The website features a resource directory with information on Latino-run ...
In an effort to raise local awareness of the challenges that Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian ancestry face in the Dominican Republic, Bernard Georges, founder of the nonprofit New Bridges for Haitian Success Inc., hopes to involve the University in future discussions. An Oct. 23 forum, New Bridges’ ...
Members of Gov. Gina Raimondo’s staff and open government groups met Oct. 20 to discuss the administration’s lack of responsiveness to and denial of Access to Public Records Act requests. Representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, the Providence Journal, the Newport ...
A pedestrian bridge connecting the Jewelry District to the East Side is set to begin construction in summer 2016, setting in motion plans that were put on hold by a series of setbacks. Development of a 2-acre park and a 5-acre park on the east and west sides of the Providence River, respectively, is ...
Running back to Rhode Island Former Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 dropped out of the race to become the Democratic nominee for president of the United States Friday. Chafee ran on a platform focused on foreign policy, touting his vote against the Iraq War and his experience on the Senate Foreign ...
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