Ehlayna Napolitano is a reporter and editor who has covered a variety of topics, including local politics as a beat reporter and national topics at an app designed for children. She has a degree from Hofstra University, an incurable love for dogs and history, and an addiction to the 24-hour news cycle.
A hospital stay for a Rhode Island resident meant she was not able to use her physician-directed medical marijuana, which she said resulted in negative physical effects, only cured when she began using it again without hospital staff’s knowledge. RI legalized medical marijuana in 2006, and since then, roughly 19,000 people statewide have received certifications […]
Protesters arrived to an East Greenwich Town Council meeting last month. Their goal: Make their voices heard, without saying a word. The town council of East Greenwich, made up of four Republican representatives and one Democrat, has recently become a contentious political sticking point for residents. In response to what residents say has been months of […]
A new organizing group in East Greenwich has taken matters of town transparency into their own hands. Engaged East Greenwich (EEG), a social-media based movement, has begun a new system of fact-checking the East Greenwich town council. And things have gotten increasingly contentious during the past few months. A group of residents, feeling misled and lied […]
Perhaps the image of healthcare burned most freshly in the nation’s collective mind is the repeated struggles to repeal the Affordable Care Act, colloquially referred to as Obamacare. Congressional Republicans have long had a repeal of this act in their sights, often referring to a plan they called “repeal and replace.” However, in the multiple […]
The Americas existed for centuries before what is commonly referred to as their discovery in 1492; the region was home to millions of indigenous people who lived there for centuries before European colonizers arrived on ships. This month, the United States will celebrate one such colonizer, who murdered, enslaved and wrought violence upon indigenous populations […]
Phil DeMaria was standing guard over an army camp one night, talking with the other guard on duty, watching over a trench full of men, some asleep, some awake. The moon was shining down; the camp was quiet. Then, suddenly, a man rose out of the trench. The moonlight on him, the night peaceful. DeMaria […]
Living with roommates is a quintessential college experience for most people: get assigned to a stranger, move in with them, and learn to mesh your lifestyle, personality and habits with another’s. After college, though, more young people than ever before are choosing to move into living spaces with a group of roommates rather than seek […]
Those who have considered investing time and resources into the installation of solar panels may think of the environmental and economic benefits of such a decision; certainly they can prove to be a cost-saving maneuver. However, property owners in Rhode Island may also be able to get paid for the work their solar panels do. […]