Last month’s YouGov and Yahoo News poll found 53% of Americans lament a Biden-Trump rematch this Fall. But with the stakes so high, Rhode Islanders must be engaged despite living in a deep blue …
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By RON GOLDSTEIN
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4/25/24
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Adopted in 2010, Rhode Island’s funding formula for education — the primary mechanism for delivering state education aid to local communities—was moderately successful in increasing …
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By MICHAEL DIBIASE
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4/25/24
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To the Editor,
Are members of the Democratic Party are on a mission to eliminate motherhood? They relentlessly promote legislation that enables and, I would argue, encourages pregnant women to …
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4/25/24
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To the Editor,
It's clear to me that Rhode Island Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi (D-Warwick) is trying his best to fix that which isn't broken.
In his recent 15 bill package, addressing …
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4/25/24
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I’ll confess, I thought it was a crazy idea. Why should the city embark on building a third ice skating rink, when we have two already? And why build an outdoor rink subject to inclement …
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4/25/24
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The many issues with the American healthcare system are often so cartoonish, so overtly head-scratching and backwards, that it can seem silly and hopeless these days to even point them out.
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4/25/24
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4/24/24
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4/24/24
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School vacation week made for some swift journeys across the Washington Bridge.
STORY OF THE WEEK
As the state awaits a forensic review of what went wrong with the Washington Bridge, the …
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4/24/24
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To the Editor,
Apparently, our attorney general, Peter Neronha, thinks judges are incapable of deciding the guilt or innocence of defendants who appear before them. Or, he at least thinks that …
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4/18/24
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The sun is coming in the house, The laughing daffies know it. Their vase was set with care last night, So morning light would show it.
They brightly flourish, Souls they nourish, Fighting …
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4/18/24
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Sad.
That was the word that came to mind when the news hit social media that the city’s longest serving mayor, Scott Avedisian, had left the scene of a minor accident at the drive thru of …
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4/18/24
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Rhode Island’s housing affordability problem has resulted primarily from a lack of housing production over a long period of time. The Ocean State ranked 38th among states in per capita housing …
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4/18/24
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By Rep. JOSEPH McNAMARA
A neighbor recently approached me and said, “I don’t think it’s right that I have to pay $6,000 to just chew my food when I have dental …
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4/18/24
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4/17/24
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STORY OF THE WEEK: For a long time, it seemed as if Scott Avedisian was destined to be mayor in perpetuity of Warwick. He could be counted on to win re-election as a genial GOP moderate, even amid …
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4/17/24
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4/17/24
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As reported in last week’s Warwick Beacon, Warwick residents and officials seeking to gain some more insight and accountability into the goings on of the Rhode Island Airport Corporation (RIAC) …
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4/11/24
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Surely, in this age of cell phones and multiple means of communication, you’ve never felt helplessly unconnected. But that’s what happened to me last week..
No, there wasn’t a …
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4/11/24
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When Rhode Island voters went to the polls earlier this week to participate in the presidential primary, they saw ballots with multiple options but only one choice. Of the seven candidates who …
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By Sen. Valarie Lawson
and Rep. Rebecca Kislak
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4/11/24
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