The Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee recommended that the Equality in Abortion Coverage Act be held for further study at a March 6 hearing.
Rhode Island House Speaker K. Shekarchi has introduced a legislative package to combat the housing crisis in Rhode Island.
After several tumultuous months for RIPTA, Senator Dominick Ruggerio calls for resignation of RIPTA CEO, merger with RIDOT and Senate oversight hearing.
With Rhode Island facing a shortage of psychiatric residential care for girls, state officials are recommending sending patients as far as Missouri to receive adequate inpatient psychiatric care. To help address the shortage, state officials recently announced an expanded Psychiatric Residential ...
Gov. Dan McKee, alongside bill sponsors, recently held a press conference introducing legislation that would ban the sale of assault-style weapons, such as AR-15s, in Rhode Island. If the bill passes, the state will join nine others enacting bans on certain types of assault-style weapons.
Gov. Dan McKee's proposed budget has been criticized by some for failing to address structural issues in the state economy.
If the EACA were to pass in Rhode Island, the state would join 16 others in extending abortion coverage to those on Medicaid or other government-sponsored plans.
To many, the midterm results were a shock in light of expectations of a red wave for Republican candidates. This year’s results were relatively unusual, given that the incumbent party usually performs poorly in the midterms: Not only did Democrats retain control of the U.S. Senate they also lost ...
Four political science faculty experts spent Wednesday night unpacking the complicated results of Tuesday’s midterm elections at a panel hosted by the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy. Reactions varied from cautious optimism about increased diversity and the failure of the predicted ...
As election night results trickle in, Rhode Island residents have decided several elections for state-level positions. Tuesday’s results demonstrated strong support for Democrats in the Ocean State, as the party swept all major state-level positions and successfully defended against a Republican ...
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