The latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau released last month show that Rhode Island’s population increased by 1,207 people from July 2012 to July 2013 — the first increase in nearly a decade. Over the past 10 years, the smallest state in the country —though densely populated — underwent ...
The Plastic Waste Reduction Act was reintroduced Thursday to the Rhode Island House of Representatives by Rep. Maria Cimini, D-Providence. The bill would ban the dispersal of many plastic bags in Rhode Island by January 2015 for large retailers and by January 2016 for small businesses. During the last ...
Attorney General Peter Kilmartin announced he had drafted legislation making it a felony to “electronically disseminate sexually explicit images to minors” Dec. 18, according to a General Assembly press release. The bill will likely be introduced into the General Assembly by Kilmartin’s allies. This ...
Lorne Adrain, former chairman of the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education and managing director at the wealth management firm Ballentine Partners, formally launched his mayoral campaign yesterday morning at the Friendship Cafe in South Providence. Adrain became the fifth Democratic ...
About two weeks after Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 highlighted education as a major priority in his proposed 2015 budget, Commissioner of Education Deborah Gist announced the results of the 2013 New England Common Assessment Program exam in her annual State of Education address Jan. 30. Though ...
Rep. Dennis Canario, D-Portsmouth, Little Compton, Tiverton, has introduced a bill that would require food containing genetically modified ingredients to be labeled “Produced with Genetic Engineering,” according to a General Assembly press release. The bill was heard Wednesday by the House Committee ...
Pay it forward, pay it back Legislation introduced Tuesday by House Speaker Gordon Fox, D-Providence, and Rep. Joseph McNamara, D-Warwick and Cranston, would create a pilot program in which participating students attending in-state colleges or universities would not pay tuition or fees until after graduation. The ...
As the Rhode Island gubernatorial race heats up, campaign finance politics are taking center stage as two of the leading Democratic candidates speak out against super Political Action Committees. General Treasurer Gina Raimondo and Providence Mayor Angel Taveras, the two front runners in the Democratic ...
Earlier this month, Rep. Donna Walsh, D-Charlestown, South Kingstown, Westerly, New Shorham, proposed a bill that would “attack the food waste issue” by gradually requiring large facilities — such as dining halls, hospitals and supermarkets — to donate their waste or divert it to compost facilities, ...
Members of the Providence Student Union gathered yesterday at the Statehouse to protest the New England Common Assessment Program, a state-wide standardized test recently incorporated into high school graduation requirements. Student representatives from Hope High School, The Met School and Dr. Jorge ...
Clay Pell and Michael Solomon formally launched their respective gubernatorial and mayoral campaigns over the past two days. Solomon became the sixth candidate hoping to fill Angel Taveras’ vacant seat as Providence mayor, joining a field of four fellow Democrats and one Republican. Pell is the ...
As part of Providence’s master plan to expand bicycle travel, the city is negotiating a contract for a new bike share program that would link downtown with College Hill, Federal Hill, the Jewelry District and various places on the east and west sides, wrote Toby Shepherd, director of policy in the ...
A new teacher evaluation bill introduced by Rep. William O’Brien, D-North Providence, could spell the end of annual assessments of teachers in Rhode Island. Under the new system proposed by O’Brien, only teachers with poor efficacy ratings would be evaluated yearly. Teachers deemed “highly effective” ...
Following an eight-month battle of demonstrations and boycotts against the Renaissance Providence Downtown Hotel, the success of employees hoping to unionize now hinges on a National Labor Relations Board complaint, with a formal hearing scheduled for March 31 in Boston. Hotel workers and the labor ...
With election season shifting into full force, gubernatorial and mayoral candidates articulated their visions to reduce violence through poverty alleviation, nonviolence education and an increased police presence to a packed audience at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day forum hosted by the Institute for ...
Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 delivered the annual State of the State and budget address last week, marking the beginning of his fourth and final year as the Ocean State’s governor. Focusing on the fundamental factors that will drive economic growth and prosperity in Rhode Island, Chafee’s ...
The General Assembly opened its 2014 legislative session Jan. 7. The Assembly received the proposed 2015 budget from Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 at his annual State of the State address Jan. 15. Among the legislation filed by state senators and representatives since the start of 2014 are ...
Following the Dec. 31 federal deadline for health care coverage registration, approximately 32,000 Rhode Islanders have signed up for health insurance using the HealthSource R.I. marketplace. Over 20,000 people — approximately 63 percent of enrollments — have signed up for Medicaid, which puts Rhode ...
Rhode Island General Treasurer Gina Raimondo officially announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor in a video sent to supporters Wednesday. The decision sets up a competitive race against Mayor Angel Taveras, who announced his candidacy for the party nomination in October. ...
Holiday revelers will gather in the lobby of the Statehouse tonight to light Rhode Island’s first “Christmas tree” under Gov. Lincoln Chafee’s ’75 P’14 P’17 leadership, said Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis. Chafee made national headlines in the first two years of his tenure when he ...
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