Even normal winter conditions can be life-threatening to anyone without proper hats, clothes, and footwear, but extreme conditions are life-threatening for anyone outside of heated shelter. According to the RI Department of Environmental Management, the interior of the state (that is, not along the immediate coast) each year averages five days with a minimum temperature […]
Over 30 Rhode Island organizations, court workers, and politicians, including the Providence City Council, penned an open letter calling on Governor Daniel McKee, Chief Justice Paul Suttell, and the RI Judiciary to immediately implement virtual court hearings in response to the brutal kidnappings of immigrants by ICE at RI courthouses. These organizations and individuals have […]
The atmosphere in the room is teemantalizing with excitement. People whisper to their seat neighbors as the lights dim. It’s 30 minutes after 2 pm, the scheduled time of the event’s start, and they’re *still* letting people in as the line curved around the block. I should know, I had to pass through it twice […]
Scientific models forecasting the upcoming winter season are driven mostly by observations of such factors as Pacific Ocean temperature, since weather moves from west to east across the continental United States. It has been known for more than a century that worldwide seasonal phenomena were correlated with trade winds and ocean water temperature, controlling the […]
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Opened Apple Cinemas, a small chain of movie theaters, but one with more goodwill and pleasantness than many bigger chains, will be taking over the cinemas at Providence Place Mall. Ultimately, movie junkies only had to sit out for a week between owners, but the deal came together so quickly, employees we interviewed on the […]
Compiled by Bonnie Phillips/ecoRI News McKee, Region’s Governors Seek Environmental Impact Assessment Reforms PROVIDENCE — Is it time to reform how the federal government assesses the environmental impact of energy projects? Gov. Dan McKee apparently thinks so. The National Governors Association recently released a letter sent to Congress outlining a package of desired permitting reforms […]
Reporting by Steve Ahlquist and Sabrina Ruiz On October 18, at least 15,000 people gathered outside the Rhode Island State House in Providence, joining countless other cities and towns across the United States to condemn President Trump’s fascist overreach and to declare that America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people. Here […]
At Providence, solar aurora may be visible overnight Tue into Wed and, to a lesser extent, Wed into Thu. Aurora is unusual at latitudes this far south, but it typically happens a few times every year. Weather at Providence during the potential aurora will be partly cloudy increasing from 40% cloud cover Tue sunset to […]
Mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani is a self-avowed “democratic socialist,” and his policy proposals include free public transit, free child care, city-run grocery stores, and free everything else, all funded by increasing taxes on corporations and wealthy city residents. Mamdani has based his suddenly rocketing popularity on telling people what they want to […]