Climate Action RI’s Mock Funeral for their endorsed bills at the State House over the summer of 2025. Photo: CARI.
Rhode Island Environmentalists’ Biggest Opponents at the State House Revealed in Brown University Report
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This year’s legislative session was a morbid failure for local environmental activists: only one out of the 20 bills endorsed by Climate Action Rhode Island became law. A mock funeral was held at the state house for the 19 pieces of legislation that died during [...]

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Jan
The Providence skyline seen from the pedestrian bridge in November 2025. (Photo by Janine L. Weisman/Rhode Island Current)
Providence mayor unveils New Year’s resolutions in legislative package
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Mayor Brett Smiley will be asking for an increase in the PILOT base rate and a new authority to take over the Crook Point Bridge Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by Rhode Island Current on January 7, 2026. Reprinted with permission. Two days into [...]

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Jan
Café workers at Seven Stars Bakery vote to authorize strike against employer
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Steve Ahlquist’s Substack on January 2. Reprinted with permission. From a press release: United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local Union 328, which represents over 9,000 workers across a variety of industries in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, announced that employees at [...]

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Jan
Copy of letter written by Mayor Smiley to the FBI urging that the reward go to “John”
Source That Unlocked the Case Applauded, and Anonymous
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Despite making headlines for breaking open the Brown University shooter case, Providence’s own “John Doe” is keeping his own story off the front pages. John Does Appears, and Disappears Using the same Reddit account that pointed investigators towards a rental car the gunman allegedly drove [...]

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Dec
Copy of letter written by Mayor Smiley to the FBI urging that the reward go to “John”
Fuente que reveló detalles del tiroteo en la Universidad Brown es agradecida y permanece anónima
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A pesar de acaparar titulares por destapar el caso del tirador de la Universidad Brown, el propio “John Doe” de Providence mantiene su historia fuera de las portadas. John Doe aparece y desaparece Usando la misma cuenta de Reddit que orientó a los investigadores hacia [...]

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Dec
What’s going on with Riverwalk?
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Providence Post on December 18, 2025. Copyright ppsri.org. Reprinted with permission. How the area may transform, the latest engagement meeting on the Providence Riverwalk Resilience Project Since the 1990s, the Riverwalk and Waterplace Park have become cultural [...]

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Dec
Photo by Gilles Lambert on Unsplash.
Brown University Shootings Expose Providence’s Emergency Communications System Shortcomings
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On Saturday afternoon, minutes after a masked gunman entered a classroom and sprayed gunfire on students studying for an economics exam, Brown students, faculty, and staff were notified of an active shooter on campus. However, nearby neighbors without connections to the school did not receive [...]

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Dec
Local Translator Brings Pacheco’s “Pandora” to English Readers
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Written by the award-winning Brazilian fabulist Ana Paula Pacheco, energetically translated from the Portuguese by Julia Sanches, Pandora is a strange and unsettling novel. For this reason it is also perfectly attuned to its equally strange and unsettling subject: the surreal nature of life under [...]

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Dec
Donations are up at the R.I. Blood Center. A RIBC staff member checks the IV line in the arm of Laureen Decas of Wareham. Laureen is O Negative and came down when she saw the need posted. In the background is Megan Lowney of Providence. (Photo by Michael Salerno/Rhode Island Current)
Rhode Island Blood Center reports record donations after Brown University shooting
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by Rhode Island Current on December 15, 2025. Reprinted with permission. First-time donors increase significantly at the blood center’s four donation centers across the state After a sleepless night with the sounds of sirens and TV news about Saturday’s Brown [...]

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Dec
Monica Huertas, executive director of the People’s Port Authority, points to Public Street’s access point to the water. Photo: Eric Halvarson.
South Providence Residents Alarmed Scrapyard Expansion Could Encroach on Their Only Public Coastal Access Point
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Signs that read “Air Quality Inequality Zone” and “Aire Limpo Para Todos” decorated Washington Park’s Community Library on Monday, November 24. More than 50 residents and city officials packed in between the bookshelves to discuss the latest development in the battle to make Public Street [...]

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Dec