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A BETTER FUTURE: In 1978, Jonathan Houston founded Justice Assistance, a nonprofit that helps former convicted individuals find employment and education after being released from prison. 
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Jonathan Houston, Justice Assistance founder and CEO

PBN Leaders & Achievers 2023 Jonathan Houston Justice Assistance Founder and CEO THE LATE FORMER U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno once recognized Jonathan Houston as “the foremost...

R.I. Supreme Court rejects challenge to India Point Park power line...

PROVIDENCE – A decadeslong battle over where the power lines above India Point Park should go appears to have ended, with the R.I. Supreme...

R.I. Supreme Court’s first Black justice sworn in

PROVIDENCE (AP) – The state Supreme Court has its first Black justice. Superior Court Judge Melissa A. Long was sworn in on Monday during a...
MATTER OF OPINION: Former R.I. Supreme Court Justice R­obert G. Flanders Jr. speculates that the recent high court decision on a pension dispute between the city of Providence and a group of municipal retirees might make bankruptcy more palatable for municipalities. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Court ruling on Providence pensions will have ripple effects

Rhode Island is no stranger to pension problems. Even after a major state-level overhaul of the Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island led by then-R.I....

City’s fiscal woes just got much worse

Providence’s fiscal woes got much worse on June 30, when the state’s Supreme Court sided with former city employees in a long-running dispute over...

R.I. Supreme Court to hear cases remotely

PROVIDENCE (AP) – The Rhode Island Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments this week using remote technology for the first time. The court...
A RENDERING OF what the Greek cultural center at the University of Rhode Island was supposed to look like if it had been completed. / COURTESY HELLENIC SOCIETY PAIDEIA

R.I. Supreme Court rules on longstanding URI campus land dispute

PROVIDENCE – A yearslong legal battle the University of Rhode Island has waged over an unfinished Greek cultural center on the Kingston campus has...
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