Mayor Angel Taveras’ parents moved to New York from the Dominican Republic with eighth-grade educations, “looking for the American dream,” he told a crowd of students and community members in List 120 last night. Taveras spoke about his experience as mayor of Providence during an event titled ...
A recent Providence ordinance aims to reduce nuisance complaints about local student “party houses” by marking them with orange stickers, which could potentially affect Brown students living off campus. As part of the orange sticker program, also known as the “‘Party House’ Ordinance,” ...
A Portsmouth Middle School field trip last week has spurred tense debate on the issue of funds contributed by students' parents donated to a subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America, a group that has previously received negative press for its discriminatory policies. The school’s seventh- and eighth-grade ...
Four transportation companies filed a civil action suit in Superior Court Tuesday against the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission, which drafted and passed legislation last year to allow the commission to set a price floor on public motor vehicle transactions. RIPUC set a minimum charge of $40 ...
Ken Block announced last week that he will run in Rhode Island’s 2014 gubernatorial election, competing against Cranston Mayor Allan Fung — who announced his candidacy Monday — for the Republican nomination. Block announced his candidacy last May, when he was a member of the Moderate Party. Block ...
For the past 20 years, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., has carried a blank book with him, jotting down inspiring quotations as he hears and reads them, from the tenets of Boy Scout Law to a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem on the Providence War Memorial. When a friend advised him to publish his personal adversaria ...
Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., joined with the Rhode Island Foundation last week for a three-city tour in an effort to raise Rhode Island’s self-esteem as a part of the “It’s All in Our Backyard” campaign. The campaign stems from a partnership between the Foundation and media consulting firms Basics ...
Portsmouth High School revamped its drug policy last month to strengthen consequences for drug use and authorize random breathalyzer tests at extracurricular events. These changes stem from the release of an April report documenting high rates of student substance abuse from the Portsmouth Prevention ...
Newport, R.I., may soon add another city to its list of “sister cities” — a relationship that encourages an economic, cultural and social exchange between similar municipalities — after being approached by a representative for Tamsui, Taiwan. Newport already has six established relationships ...
The State Investment Commission voted unanimously in favor of Rhode Island divesting from its stakes in gun distributors Wednesday. Wellspring Capital Partners IV invests $3.8 million of state money in United Sporting Companies, an organization that distributes firearms, gun accessories and hunting ...
The world premiere of the film “Ocean Frontiers II: A New England Story for Sustaining the Sea” highlighted Rhode Island as a leading example of collaborative marine spatial planning in a public screening at the Providence Public Library Monday night. Public premieres will continue in other states ...
Governor Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 spoke of his gradual transition from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party, his time in office and the importance of young people’s voices in politics to an audience of about 50 students in a lecture co-hosted by the Brown Democrats and Providence ...
Mayor Angel Taveras will formally announce his candidacy for next year’s gubernatorial election at an event Monday, his campaign spokesman Peter Baptista confirmed Thursday night in an email to The Herald. Baptista said the details of the announcement are still being determined and will be announced ...
Seth Magaziner ’06, the 30-year-old son of Clinton administration adviser and Open Curriculum architect Ira Magaziner ’69 P’06 P’07 P’10, announced he will run for Rhode Island General Treasurer next year in a video released Tuesday morning on his website. Gina Raimondo, the current treasurer, ...
When administrators at the Catholic Providence College canceled a lecture by a same-sex marriage advocate last month, students and faculty members unleashed a backlash that led to the university’s amending of its non-discrimination policy to include gender identity and sexual orientation. The debate ...
The number of Rhode Island women in state government positions has more than doubled since the beginning of Gov. Lincoln Chafee’s ’75 P’14 P’17 tenure, he announced Monday at a press conference. The Women’s Fund of Rhode Island, which put the Rhode Island Government Appointments Project in ...
Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 marked Rhode Island’s divestment from Iran with a ceremonial bill signing at the State House last month. The state’s decision to pull all public investments in companies operating in Iran is intended to increase political pressure on the nation to cease nuclear ...
The chorus of dissenting voices among Rhode Island students, parents and teachers regarding the use of high-stakes testing to evaluate teachers and students has joined a broader national debate over education reform and what many politicans, activists and students call the crisis in American schools. While ...
Though the federal health insurance exchange — a marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act for people to purchase health care insurance — continues to face technical problems, the Rhode Island exchange has overcome some initial glitches, with advocates expressing optimism about its future. The ...
Tammie Paris, a senior at Hope High School, recently took the math section of the New England Common Assessment Program for the second time. Her score last year was low enough that if she did not demonstrate improvement on either this test or a third attempt this spring she would be barred from graduating ...
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