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All Are Welcome: PVD continues to declare itself a sanctuary city
Rhode Island has been a sanctuary state since 2014, when then-Governor Lincoln Chafee made the official declaration. If you Google ...

AltFacts: Kicking and Screaming: The adults in the room continue to ride out the presidential tantrum
Pt 1: Going Bye Bye There’s yet another controversy in the White House as the president stormed out of a ...

Local Allies: RI organizations support trans folk in our community
“Trans” is a wide-ranging umbrella term that applies to numerous identities: transgender, gender non-conforming/variant/creative, non-binary, genderqueer, intersex and others. It’s ...

Calling All Tattoo Artists!
It’s almost time for our annual celebration of ink! Motif’s tattoo contest event will be held in March, and we’re scouring ...

School’s Out For Ever!
The statistics make for bleak reading. Nationally, Rhode Island ranks 33rd in high school attainment, by far the lowest rate ...

Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Trump’s Bull Ish: Your superior correspondents aren’t being taken in and neither should you
Bullish Trump One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows ...

Peer Education in Substance Abuse
At a certain point in a kid’s life, peers begin to have a great influence on them than their families. ...

News Analysis: RI to Legalize Recreational Cannabis
[See also “Opinion: Governor’s Proposal to Legalize Recreational Cannabis – A Self-Inflicted Wound”, Jan 16, 2019] Gov. Gina Raimondo will soon formally ...

Sheldon Whitehouse Discusses the State of RI Public Education
Rhode Islanders should take a broad view when evaluating the status of the state’s public education system, United States Senator ...
