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 ...
Rhode Island Sens. Juan Pichardo, D- Providence, and Harold Metts, D-Providence, hosted the Ocean State’s fourth annual education summit, “The Equitable Delivery of a 21st Century Education: Closing the Achievement Gap” in the State House Senate lounge Tuesday. The summit was divided into three ...
Alums from as far back as the 1970s gathered on College Hill for the Brown Association for Cooperative Housing’s 45th reunion Saturday, reminiscing about the group’s progressive beginnings and how Brown has changed in the past few decades. Attendees listened to a variety of alumni and faculty speakers, ...
Two female sexual assault survivors testified Monday at a meeting of the General Assembly’s Special Commission on Campus Sexual Assault, a 13-member body tasked with gathering information to inform Rhode Island policymakers, said Rep. Mia Ackerman, D-Cumberland and Lincoln, chair of the commission. ...
Racist and anti-Semitic flyers were found in bags on the East Side of Providence near campus Oct. 15, prompting Providence Police to shut down several blocks around Hope and Methyl streets. Law enforcement officials found the flyers inside bags that appeared to contain white rice in the Blackstone neighborhood. ...
The Center for Justice has filed a lawsuit against National Grid and the State of Rhode Island’s Division of Public Utilities and Carriers on behalf of medically vulnerable consumers who experienced shutoffs of their gas supply or electricity, endangering their health, according to a press release ...
In attire ranging from winter coats to completely topless, about 20 Rhode Island School of Design students marched through 40-degree weather at 11 a.m. Saturday carrying picket signs as part of the RISD Sexual Health and Relationship Educator's “Walk of No Shame.” “Consensual sex is fun!” said ...
Mayor Jorge Elorza announced the creation of a Summer Learning Task Force earlier this month, charged with developing recommendations to help students retain material learned during the academic year over the summer. This effect, commonly referred to as learning loss, disproportionately affects low-income ...
Undercover Providence Police officers have started waiting outside local liquor stores to apprehend underaged customers, several sources reported. Two local liquor stores — Darwin Liquors and Spiritus Fermenti — have subsequently purchased ID scanners to verify customers’ identification. Charles ...
The City Sports store on Thayer Street will close its doors by the end of October as part of the company’s Delaware Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization strategy, wrote Eve Bould, director of marketing for City Sports, in an email to The Herald. As part of its filing for bankruptcy, City Sports, a ...
History repeats itself Acelia Terrero, owner of Ada’s Creations on Broad Street, told the Providence Board of Licenses that she paid $29,000 in bribes, Turn to 10 reported Oct. 18. She did not specify to whom she paid the money or for what purpose. Ada’s Creations — which has been a bakery, a ...
In light of the national growth of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the Washington Post published a database June 30 of every police shooting that has occurred this year. Currently, Rhode Island and Vermont are the only two states with no fatal police shootings. “I’m really proud we haven’t had ...
An opportunity fair for minority- and women-owned business enterprises in construction was held Friday at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Providence. The fair, hosted by the University’s Office of Government Relations and Community Affairs, aimed to highlight opportunities with general contracting companies ...
Rhode Island has been awarded $235,737 by the Labor Department for its Temporary Caregiver Insurance Program, making it one of eight states to receive a portion of a larger $1.55 million grant. The TCI program started in January 2014, making Rhode Island one of only three states in the U.S. — along ...
Three Rhode Island public schools — two elementary schools and one middle school — were among the 285 public and 50 private schools recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2015. The honor recipients were announced by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ...
After getting taken out of the budget in the last legislative session, Gov. Gina Raimondo’s RhodeWorks proposal, which would use truck tolls to pay for investments in infrastructure, has once again come to the forefront of Statehouse political debates. Raimondo’s plan addresses the fact that Rhode ...
Abandoned homes Mayor Jorge Elorza has partnered with Rhode Island Housing to start a $3 million fund offering small loans to those renovating abandoned homes in Providence, according to a Tuesday press release. The fund is part of EveryHome, a larger program intended to help decrease the number of ...
After months of reviewing applications and negotiating contracts, the three firms tasked with rebranding Rhode Island and boosting tourism in the Ocean State will begin their efforts. The various responsibilities of the project will be split between Milton Glaser, Havas PR and Epic Decade. Milton Glaser ...
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