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One school of thought holds that poverty will always be with us. Perhaps, but that overlooks the fact that government, however flawed, can make an important difference for the better on important issues. Two examples: 1) The federal government, through...
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...
There's not uncommonly a link between a down economy and a rise in violent crime, so the streetworkers based at the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence in Providence have their work cut out for them -- more so than usual. Appropriately...
Governor Carcieri touts a federal Medicaid waiver as a ticket to savings in the Rhode Island budget, but it seems as if an awful lot of questions about how this will work remain unanswered. Given how the Ocean State has a very high percentage of elderly...
In this week's Phoenix, Marion Davis writes about Housing First . Think of permanent housing not as something you earn, but as a human right, and as a foundation people need to rebuild their lives. It's called Housing First, and since its beginnings...
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...
Amid the bleak landscape described in the previous post, there's a bit of good news: 1) the cost of heating oil, which threatened to pose another crisis this winter, has declined, at least for the time being, to a more manageable average of about...
Many social advocates across Rhode Island point to a "perfect storm" of adverse forces -- the fiscal crisis, budget deficits in RI, the foreclosure mess, high unemployment, etc. -- as we move into the holiday season. In this week's Phoenix...
We all know how the Northeast is facing a looming crisis because of growing heating costs this winter. So how effective a regulatory watchdog is the little-known state Public Utilities Commission ? (The PUC's three commissioners are pictured above...
Three days after N4N broke the news that Miriam Inocencio, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island , had resigned, PPRI has released an official statement. The move comes after the organization's Connecticut chapter gave an oblique description...
UPDATE II : Susan Yolen, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Connecticut , confirmed to me that Inocencio has resigned. She attributed the change to how "the market is changing," and how "it's difficult to be in a small Planned...
A lame duck President Bush and the big telephone companies get their way on FISA (Senator Reed voted with the minority in opposition, Senator Whitehouse in favor). Closer to home, consumers are the ones who will bear the brunt of rising utility costs...
Here's the reax from AG Patrick Lynch : Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch today issued the following statement regarding the opinion by the Rhode Island Supreme Court, State of Rhode Island v. Lead Industries Association, Inc., et al, that reverses...
Via BeloBlog : The Rhode Island Supreme Court today reversed a lower court’s judgments in favor of the state in its suit against companies that manufactured and sold lead paint in Rhode Island. The court reversed the Superior Court’s decision calling...
A report to be released tomorrow, to be joined by a call for action by advocates, calls Rhode Island the second most economically distressed state in the nation. From the RI Coalition for the Homeless : When: Tuesday, July 1, 2:00 pm Where: In front of...
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