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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 coordinator Daryl 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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Arts/Food/Culture
FRINGE PVD Is Back with a Week of Creative Risk-taking
Now in its thirteenth year, The Providence Fringe Festival (FRINGEPVD), continues to capture the soul of the city’s artistic spirit. From July 12 through 18, venues across the Valley Arts District will ignite with performances, installations, [...]
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Local Elections 2026 Politics/Government
Which of Providence’s General Assembly Seats are Being Challenged This Year?
Nearly two-thirds of lawmakers across Rhode Island are not facing a challenger in this year’s election, and the same is true in the capital city. In Providence, only 10 General Assembly positions are contested. Speaker of [...]
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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)
I 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, [...]
Read moreWhy I Would Rather Go to the Laundromat Than Write Poems
Because the gears are already turning when I get there, and all I need to [...]
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