Since July, a Rhode Island news site has been publishing stories by authors that don’t exist.  Kelly Lockhart, a housing reporter for Uprise RI, wrote about the widening gap between earnings and housing costs in the Ocean State. Correspondent Adriana Vossari covered the latest votes — on zoning, school procurement, criminal justice for juveniles, and […]

Fire departments and other first responder organizations across Rhode Island are getting more than $4.5 million in grants for new equipment, training and emergency response upgrades, federal officials and Rhode Island’s congressional delegation have announced.  Funding comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters Grant program, which provides funding to fire departments […]

University of Rhode Island (URI) students, faculty and staff can now ride public buses for free with their school IDs under an agreement announced last week between the university and the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority. URI will pay a flat $135,000 fee to join RIPTA’s U-Pass program, allowing members of the university community to […]

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Head Start works comprehensively. The harm of the proposed rule does not come from any one of the above changes alone, it comes from the compounding impact of removing services and protections for the most vulnerable children and families.

The nurses overwhelmingly authorized an indefinite strike last week, after their five-day work stoppage in July failed to break the contract negotiation stalemate.