Democrat Brett Smiley announced his candidacy for mayor yesterday, promising to be a “get-it-done mayor” focusing on public safety, education and implementing an extra sales tax on guns and ammunition. A crowd of nearly 50 supporters gathered at the Mount Hope Neighborhood Association to hear Smiley, ...
The Democratic and Republican primary races for the 2014 gubernatorial election have been in flux during recent weeks as new candidates enter the race, fresh poll results redefine the contest’s frontrunners and campaign fundraising reports offer new takes on where the races are headed. Candidates ...
The I-195 Redevelopment District Commission adopted the Link as the new name for about 40 acres of land in the Jewelry District previously occupied by I-195. Much of the Link overlaps with the “Knowledge District,” a moniker for the area adopted in recent years with hope that the area would develop ...
Providence Mayor Angel Taveras has announced that if elected governor next year, he would expand the state’s pre-kindergarten program, with a goal of enrolling 76 percent of the state’s eligible children in pre-kindergarten by the end of his first term in office and accommodating all eligible students ...
Superintendent Susan Lusi presented her strategic plan to revitalize the Providence Public School District to about 50 community members, teachers and city council members Wednesday night at William D’Abate Elementary School. The bulk of the plan, Opening Doors to Our Children’s Futures, explains ...
Mayor Angel Taveras and the Providence Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission unveiled “Bike Providence,” the city’s master plan to make Providence a more bike-friendly city, Nov. 5. Under “Bike Providence,” officials plan to install a comprehensive network of bike lanes throughout the ...
Providence Mayor Angel Taveras leads the pack of 2014 gubernatorial candidates in job performance rating and perceived ability to improve the state’s economy, according to a WPRI poll of 506 registered state voters released Tuesday. When asked to choose among the five probable candidates, almost ...
Karen DeLucia Pinch ’88 was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the Rhode Island State Police earlier this month, making her third in command of the force and the highest ranking woman in the organization’s history. In her new role as Commanding Officer of the Department of Public Safety and Training, ...
Rhode Island will require all residents to have health insurance that complies with the standards outlined in the Affordable Care Act by March 31, despite President Obama’s decision Thursday that anyone on canceled individual or small business insurance plans can keep their coverage for another year, ...
Jorge Elorza, a former Housing Court judge, formally announced his mayoral candidacy Monday morning in a short speech to about 75 supporters outside his childhood home in Providence’s West End. Elorza spoke of his experiences growing up in Providence, his career and his focus on creating an environment ...
A panel of experts explored the benefits and problems the Affordable Care Act has posed for Rhode Islanders, focusing specifically on more vulnerable populations, at an event hosted by Health Leads last night. Rhode Island is one of 27 states to have opted into the law’s expansion of Medicaid, despite ...
When the neon lights and glass tables in Shark Bar & Grille expand into the building next door within two years, taking over a vacant space formerly home to the boutique shop Details, it will mark just one more step in a recent trend on Thayer Street: an increase in restaurants and a decline of ...
Lorne Adrain, former chairman of the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education and managing director at the wealth management firm Ballentine Partners, recently registered to run as a Democratic candidate in Providence’s 2014 mayoral election. Adrain filed official notice Nov. 1 with the ...
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 ...
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