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RI electorate was reshaped by a youth movement in primary | Exclusive
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RI will have to pay legal fees after blocking State House rotunda to protesters providencejournal.com/story/…
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ACLU announces settlement with RI Governor over access to the State House rotunda, after @GovDanMcKee team blocked it from protestors during the State of the State in January 2025. Includes state paying the legal fees.
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Settlement ensures RI State House rotunda will remain open during ‘State of the State’ speeches. “This is an important reaffirmation of 1st Amendment rights in a space that serves as a quintessential forum for free speech activity” - @RIACLU’s Steven Brown
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.@SenJackReed + @SenWhitehouse both released warm remembrances of Sen. Graham despite their profound disagreements with him
Whitehouse, "stunned," calls him "a giant in the Senate" and "a dearly cherished friend"
Reed recalls his bipartisanship on judges wpri.com/news/us-and-world/s…
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For several weeks the Special Committee on Ways and Means has been carefully vetting the 2026-2027 city budget, holding meetings with every department as well as two public hearings.
Tonight, councilors recommended the budget with amendments that add much-needed new positions to PEMA, PERA, the Department of Sustainability, and Veterans Support, along with a grant to Mathewson Street Church to provide support for our unhoused neighbors and extra funding for community libraries and recreation programming.
The first full vote on the budget will be held at a special City Council meeting on June 15th. The budget requires two votes to pass.
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When police in Rhode Island wrongfully arrest someone without charges, the RI Attorney General’s office says the public does not have the right to know.
Civil rights advocates say that ruling opens the door for secret arrests and abuse. bostonglobe.com/2026/06/02/m… via @BostonGlobe
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If you want to see how bad the RI April household survey data is, this table shows percent changes. Wow!
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RI's unemployment rate rose from 4.4% last April to 4.5% this April. Sound good, right? But this occurred as resident employment plunged by 10,700, with an almost identical drop in the labor force. Too bad the media in this state is so oblivious to what is "under the hood."
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I didn't think RI's household survey data could get worse after last month. But, it did, bigtime! Huge drops in our labor force and resident employment, monthly and annually. Our "official" unemployment rate of 4.5% is totally meaningless (the media won't realize this).
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Cost-of-living concerns dominated our poll, with the economy and housing affordability emerging as the top issues for more than half of respondents.
Healthcare came in third.
Full results --> wpri.com/12-news-emerson-col…
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Commentary: Breaking up homeless encampments disrupts vital access to health care, social services, and community, write emergency medicine physicians with the Brown University Health Street Medicine program.
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Rhode Island’s unemployment rate reached its highest level in nearly five years during the first three months of 2026.
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Like the nation, RI employment in health and education is having a major impact on employment change. For March, RI payroll employment (yearly) fell 1,300. If we take out education and health, the decline was actually 3,600.
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Rhode Island's economy lost ground to the rest of the country over the past 10 years, according to a new @RIPEC_ analysis.
Personal incomes and GDP lagged neighboring states from 2014 to 2024 under Govs Raimondo and McKee
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This week on @ALivelyExp: The state has spent tens of millions of taxpayers dollars on homeless - with not much to show for it. Plus: a look at the top local stories of the week. @ehirsch5 @_HarrisonTuttle + @IanDonnis join Hummel tonight @7/Sunday @ noon on @OSMediaRI
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El Papa cuando le preguntan su postura sobre la migración: “Yo cambiaría la pregunta: qué hace el norte global para ayudar al sur global en su situación que les obliga a migrar”
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Rhode Island has spent tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money trying to address homelessness- with little to show for it. @ehirsch5 @_HarrisonTuttle + @hummel_report talk about why, and what should be done. Available right now.
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