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Big quantities of red ink will remain the focus when the General Assembly resumes business this afternoon, but there's some good news to be found beyond the anticipated election of the first female Senate president, not to mention the first Asian...
Word comes today of a January 9 legislative hearing on Governor Carcieri's global Medicaid waiver , which he bills as a big money-saver for the state. Some Rhode Islanders, such as the author of this letter to the editor in today's ProJo, see...
What some call an overly generous social safety net has enabled Rhode Island to have a relatively low proportion of uninsured residents. With high unemployment and other economic woes, however, access to health-care is worsening. Writing in this week's...
Speaking of Carcieri, our governor has been an energetic supporter of what proponents call medical malpractice reform. Yet those who believe the medical system is plagued by unwarranted lawsuits might want to watch a segment aired last night on 60 Minutes...
Coming your way, at the State House: From MERI : On Wednesday, May 7, the Rhode Island Assembly's House Judiciary Committee will hear testimony on several bills addressing marriage equality rights for all Rhode Island couples, regardless of gender or...
Here's an upcoming event worth putting on your calendar: Malian guitarist Habib Koité and his band Bamada return to North America this spring with an 11-city tour, marking the first opportunity for this legendary African music figure to perform songs...
Linc Chafee, as we all know, has said goodbye to the Republican Party and embraced the Obama campaign . And in a letter to the editor in today's ProJo , he asserts that his late father, former governor and US senator John Chafee , would not have supported...
On February 8, N4N reported on how the Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island Action Network had launched a suprisingly sharp attack on progressive Representative David Segal, who has been a strong supporter of women's rights. The organization has since backtracked...
During a fiery, populist address before an estimated crowd of more than 2000 at Rhode Island College this afternoon, Hillary Clinton laced into Barack Obama's health-care plan . Describing it as a faulty partial solution, she questioned whether Franklin...
A report that her campaign is prepared to face the end (knocked down here ) and the jumping of her superdelegates to Barack Obama notwithstanding, Hillary Clinton is making a stepped-up effort to win Rhode Island's March 4 primary. Case in point: an additional...
Medical marijuana proponents plan to seek General Assembly support this session to create an establishment, known as the Compassion Center, which, as the theory goes, would have state Department of Health backing to grow and distribute medical marijuana...
If you missed Sicko , the latest offering from Michael Moore, the Providence Public Library has a screening and discussion planned for Sunday: Providence Public Library is pleased to present a free screening of Michael Moore’s award-winning documentary...
Pat Crowley has a strong post up at RI's Future , pointing to a state report to indicate how Rhode Island taxpayers are paying more than $5 million (plus about $6M from the feds) to pay for health insurance for workers at some of the state's biggest and...
As Governor Carcieri prepares to give his latest State of the State address tonight, a coalition of health-care professionals plans a State House protest tomorrow, at 3:30 pm, to rap the governor's proposed cuts to RIte Care . Nick Tsiongas, President...
Although our federal government continues to spend untold billions on the war in Iraq, it has no problem involving officials from the US Department of Health and Human Services in the White House's political initiative against expanding healthcare for...
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