Rhode Island lawmakers unveiled changes Tuesday to a bill to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana, revisions that aim to ensure the legislation passes the state’s General Assembly.… MORE
Tag Archives: rhode island
Bipartisan push for legislation that would criminalize sex with underage students
With just weeks remaining in the legislative session, lawmakers Monday said they are in a race to pass bills that would criminalize sexual relations between adults and underage teenagers.… MORE
Advocates call on RI to do more to help homeless
Homeless advocates rallied outside Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee’s State House office Thursday, calling on the Democrat to do more to provide permanent shelter for a growing number of homeless people as winter shelters are about to close and more people face homelessness.… MORE
Scientists renew efforts to find ship torched by colonists
A new effort is underway to find the remains of a British ship that Rhode Island colonists burned 250 years ago, marine archaeologists and state officials announced Tuesday.… MORE
Senators press to cap insulin costs
Rhode Island’s two Democratic U.S. senators called for a cap on the cost of insulin on Monday.… MORE
URI establishes scholarship program for Indigenous students
The University of Rhode Island has established a scholarship program that this year is helping 15 citizens of the Narragansett Indian Tribe pay for their educations, the university announced Monday.… MORE
Rhode Island Supreme Court decision upholds abortion law
The Rhode Island Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 2019 state law that protects abortion rights in the state when it rejected a legal challenge to a lower court’s decision.… MORE
RI leaders respond to report that Roe could be overturned
Rhode Island political leaders, virtually all Democrats, are responding with a flurry of statements in the wake of a report by Politico that a draft opinion suggested the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case which legalized abortion nationwide.… MORE
New Rhode Island State Police commander sworn in
Col. Darnell Weaver was sworn in as the superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police on Friday, the 15th person to lead the agency, but the first person of color in the role.… MORE
Biden appoints RI Public Defender to a top federal judgeship
President Joe Biden today named the Rhode Island Public Defender Lara Montecalvo to a seat on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, an appointment that requires Senate confirmation.… MORE
