Christopher Shea Rhode Island Current
R.I.’s annual homelessness census set for Tuesday night
When teams of volunteers fan out across Rhode Island after dark Tuesday on a mission that will take them through parks, alongside highway ramps,...
Smiley establishes ICE-free zones in Providence
City property – including parking lots, public schools, parks and municipal buildings – is off limits to federal immigration officers conducting enforcement operations, under...
RIPTA once again counts on McKee to fill its budget gap
After a year of trimming its finances to try to stave off job cuts, the R.I. Public Transit Authority still faces a nearly $14...
2 Brown University students who lost their lives in campus shooting...
The vice president of the College Republicans from Alabama and an aspiring neurosurgeon originally from Uzbekistan have been identified as the two Brown University...
Two years later, life goes on for Rhode Islanders as they...
Mitchell Check Jr. had just gotten off the phone after ordering a new shipment of white carnations for his family’s Taunton Avenue flower shop...
Rhode Island Community Food Bank delays release of its annual hunger...
In any other year, the data that informs an annual report released every Thanksgiving by the Rhode Island Community Food Bank would tell the...
Audit faults RIPTA for lack of transparency in financial reporting practices
A new report finds Rhode Island’s bus network is out of compliance with the state’s transparency law for quasi-public agencies, including failing to publish online...
More than 60% of social equity applicants disqualified during screening for...
Only 38% of pre-applicants for a cannabis retail license reserved for those adversely affected by the war on drugs have qualified to submit a...
R.I. hemp industry faces uncertainty amid federal crackdown on THC products
Mike Simpson is one of Rhode Island’s biggest cheerleaders for hemp cultivation and the plant’s derivative products – remedies, he believes, that may help...
Rice talks Iraq War, AI and international student visas during Brown...
Over two decades after the United States invaded Iraq, former Secretary of State Condolezza Rice admits she has some regrets over the decision.
She wishes...



















