Voting Nation
When Tammy Brown of The Womxn Project approached Alicia Wilder of Metamorphosis Dance Company suggesting they organize a flash mob to promote voting, Wilder was instantly on board. The song […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
The One Thing We All Share: ecoRI News October roundup
Shell Game A local landmark climate lawsuit against a fossil-fuel behemoth has been given approval to proceed. U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith recently denied a request for dismissal […]
Sealed with a Kiss
Rhode Island the rest of the nation tried something new this autumn: A concentrated effort to use mail ballots and early voting to keep crowds down at polling places on […]
COVID Spike: The Wyatt Detention Facility reported an increase in positive COVID cases
The Donald Wyatt Detention Facility reported 99 COVID-19 cases among its prisoner population yesterday, according to a court filing submitted by the facility. This is up from the 28 positive […]
Justice for Jhamal
On October 20, following a peaceful rally for Jhamal Gonsalves, currently in a coma after, according to witness statements, a police cruiser hit his moped, rally attendees and police clashed. […]
Start Planning for a Safe Thanksgiving: A summary of the governor’s October 21 press conference
Governor Gina Raimondo and DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott gave the COVID-19 press briefing today. At time of the presser, today’s data was not available for the Department of Health. […]
In Their Own Words: Megan Cotter (D), House District 39
We talked to many of the local candidates running for public office in the upcoming 2020 election. We asked each of them the same set of questions, with the promise […]
Rhode Island in a “Tough Spot”: A summary of the governor’s October 15 press conference
Governor Gina Raimondo and DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott gave an emergency COVID-19 presser today at 1pm. There were big upticks in today’s COVID data; DOH reports 228 new cases […]
In Their Own Words: Maria Bucci (D), Mayor of Cranston
We talked to many of the local candidates running for public office in the upcoming 2020 election. We asked each of them the same set of questions, with the promise […]
In Their Own Words: Alana DiMario (D), Senate District 36
We talked to many of the local candidates running for public office in the upcoming 2020 election. We asked each of them the same set of questions, with the promise […]