It’s an established expectation that your employer will offer health insurance. The cost, logistically, of offering it on an individual basis used to make it excessively costly for insurance companies to offer it to individuals. But with the onus of managing the benefits moved to employers, it was more affordable through work. Now that […]
By Erica Deis My grandmother never went to college. She grew up in a time where college was for the wealthy. If a family had any money at all, the male child automatically took precedence. As brilliant as my grandmother was, it was expected for her to raise a family and take a […]
Healthcare for musicians One of the side effects of health care reform is that it’s likely to allow more competition in the plans offered. It makes side-by-side comparisons possible, and allows appeals to the end consumer, rather than focusing on brokered employer arrangements. Right now, RI has three providers of health insurance – Blue Cross […]
What Obamacare will mean for us If you read this in print, skip here for the stuff that didn’t make the paper. Health services are the third largest industry in the US (after oil and retail), and in RI it’s the largest single industry. That means a lot of bureaucratic momentum, and a lot of […]
It is a coup d’état of sorts on a Saturday in late October — a peaceful coup as dozens of high school students have overtaken classrooms throughout Mount Pleasant High School, where they will spend the day debating. They are part of the Rhode Island Urban Debate League, formed in 1999 for high school students […]
As we head into 2014, the Hummel Report has updates on a handful of investigations from 2013 – and in one case an investigation from 2010. A Lot of Wind: We were there a year ago when the Narragansett Bay Commission turbines began spinning along the Providence waterfront at Fields Point. The commission says the […]
It’s taken seven years — and last month’s Hummel Report investigation — for the city of Providence to take two property owners to court after they consistently ignored violation notices and repeated orders to stop using land they own on the East Side for an illegal parking lot. Our investigation last month revealed the city […]
On Monday, December 2, activists and political leaders gathered at the Rhode Island State House to commemorate the 26th Annual World AIDS Day. Speakers included Governor Lincoln Chafee, First Lady Stephanie Chafee, State Representative Frank Ferri (D-Warwick), Dr. Philip A Chan, Kayla Wingert and Anthony Maselli. There are ore than 2,000 Rhode Islanders living with HIV/AIDS. […]
For neighbors living near two asphalt plants in Coventry, it is a steady drumbeat of sounds six days a week, eight months out of the year. The sound is of materials being delivered, asphalt being mixed and trucks hauling the finished product along a narrow residential road dozens of times every day. “It’s horrible. It’s […]
“With Ocean State [Soccer School], I thought it was such a great community that I was part of. I was allowed to develop that core group of people with whom I could grow from childhood into adulthood…” For the past three decades it has been a jewel in North Kingstown where boys and girls of […]