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Local Elections 2026 Politics/Government
City Council President Pauses RENT Fund Over Tenant Protections, Mayor Calls Move “Political Gamesmanship”
Amid deep divisions between the Mayor’s desk and City Council chambers over rent stabilization, a program to offer rental assistance to tenants seemed like common ground. Almost every City Councilor came out in support of the [...]
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Arts/Food/Culture
Want to See Some Art for Free? Hop on the Bus with Gallery Night
On June 18, Gallery Night Providence held their fourth Gallery Night of 2026. The evening had options of guided bus tours and walking tours that took guests to a variety of art related locations in different [...]
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Health
Peer-to-peer and Ear-to-ear: Community Acupuncture Creates Accessible Support for Anxiety and Addiction
On an early July morning, a small group sat around a table at CODAC, Rhode Island’s oldest nonprofit addiction treatment center, with acupuncture needles protruding from their ears. Program administrator Darryl Walker Jr. methodically inserted a [...]
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Education
Cutting the Checks for Providence Public Schools: Purchasing Approval Process Proves First Hurdle of Return to Local Control
Editor’s Note: Updated July 15, 2026 at 2:21 p.m. to include a statement from Providence Teachers Union (PTU). Providence’s public schools are a big investment. The City is contributing over $149 million to education this year—almost [...]
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Readers' VoicesSubmit an article
Broad Street Residents Need Accountability for Repeated Nightclub Incidents.
We are Washington Park residents in Ward 10, and we are deeply concerned about the [...]
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I’m Sleeping in A Shelter in Providence. And I Built an App for Folks Seeking Help With Basic Survival Needs.
Let me start with the most honest sentence I can write: I am sleeping in [...]
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Providence County is a “Childcare Desert.” We Need to Take Better Care of the Folks Who Care for Our Children.
My daughter Arlan is three years old and, by choice, speaks primarily in Spanish. She [...]
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In the Summertime, Providence is a Public-Transit Paradise. Here’s Why.
With high gas prices and the increasing threat of climate change, have you noticed the [...]
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Letters to the editorSubmit a letter
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor – July 15, 2026
Thank you for including the article [I’m Sleeping in A Shelter in Providence. And I Built an App for Folks Seeking Help With Basic Survival Needs.] about accessing social services info. I drove people experiencing homelessness [...]
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Letters to the Editor – June 24, 2026
[In response to Providence and the Underground Railroad: New Bibliography Documents Anti-Slavery Activity in RI] My grandmother had a house on Pratt street that had an underground tunnel that went to Congdon street. I was told [...]
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Letters to the Editor – June 17, 2026
[In response to The White House Spent Your Tax Dollars Dehumanizing Latinos. In Providence, That’s Unacceptable – and We Should All Say So. published on June 10, 2026] Thank you to Marcela Betancur for calling out the [...]
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Sound and Vision (Poetry)
Quahogging
I had forgotten life was a job, and that thinking about it that way wasn’t [...]
Read moreI Hear Rhode Island Singing
From RI Center for the Book: We are thrilled to share I Hear America Singing a 250-line [...]
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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing [...]
Read more“I’m traveling in some vehicle…”
—after Joni Mitchell’s song and album Hejira I used to sit on concrete curb stops, [...]
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