Homeless advocates release their plan for Kennedy Plaza
Ron Watts Lost in yesterday’s coverage of real estate investor Joseph Paolino‘s roll out of the Providence Downtown Improvement District‘s (DID) plan to deal with the issue of panhandling (and...
View ArticleWorkers to receive unpaid wages after second action
Fabian calls David Civetti After workers and activists from Fuerza Laboral gave David Civetti a 6am wake up call last August, he agreed to meet with the 8 workers who claim that his company owes them...
View Article500 RI janitors plan for strike – TF Green, CVS could be affected
Some 500 Rhode Island janitors – who work at TF Green Airport, CVS, Providence College, Fidelity and other places in the Ocean State – could go on strike if their labor union can’t come to an agreement...
View ArticleSpencer Grassie- Let’s reconnect Olneyville to the city’s urban fabric
Spencer Grassie is a senior at Providence College, majoring in Management and minoring in Finance. He has written the following op-ed: As a current Providence College Friar and a native Rhode Islander,...
View ArticleProvidence’s parkway proposal -the true essence of bottom up community...
Please join me in giving a round of applause to Mayor Elorza and the Providence Department of Planning and Development for their hard work and due diligence every step of the way during the 6/10...
View ArticleCommunity Forum on Violence Prevention: Guns are the weapons of choice for...
Marcia Ranglin-Vassell Nearly two hundred people, mostly women, gathered at Providence College on Saturday for a forum “to shine light on the adverse impacts of gun violence and domestic violence on...
View ArticleRI nonprofits paid 11 people more than a $1 million
Rhode Island hospitals made seven people millionaires in 2014. Only one of them was a practicing physician, the other six were executives. All told, 11 Rhode Islanders earned more than a $1 million a...
View ArticleAverting Dystopia: Preserving Roe v. Wade in Rhode Island
On Wednesday the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a number of bills centered on reproductive rights and abortion, but the centerpiece bill, the crux of the argument being played out with...
View ArticleRaimondo’s governor’s conference confronted over inaction on climate change
When Justin Boyan of Climate Action Rhode Island asked the crowd gathered in the “designated demonstration area” outside the Rhode Island Convention Center how they would rate state level political...
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