First Providence Maker Monday Tonight
AS220 Labs and KippKits are hosting Providence’s first Maker Monday Meet-Up on April 2 from 7pm-10pm. Led by Brown Professor, Kipp Bradford, this is a family-friendly event which helps to turn on the maker switch that lives inside most of us! Here’s more: “Get Made Monthly!” Drinks and demos meet-up for Rhode Island Makers who design and build for fun [...]
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Why Did LGBT Expert Leave URI?
To announce an event to be held a the LGBTIQQ Symposium, running from April 2 through 6, URI issued a press release in which it announced the symposium while highlighting the following: “The University of Rhode Island will present a panel discussion focusing on the unique workplace experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, queer or [...]
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RIPEC Report: State Cuts Strangled Struggling Cities
A new report from the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council confirms an idea that RI Future has been reporting on for a month now, namely that state cuts to cities and towns are a big factor in the state’s struggling cities inabilities to balance their budgets. Since 2008, says the report, state aid to cities [...]
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More Local Action Toward Justice for Trayvon Martin
The perplexing “missteps” by the Sanford police in the handling of the Trayvon Martin murder are adding up at an alarming rate. We recall that a narcotics detective, and not a homicide detective, was first to assess the scene and engage Zimmerman, or that the lead investigator, Chris Serino, had called for the arrest of [...]
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Farmers’ Market Comes to the Jewelry District
Rhode Island is home to one of the fastest growing agricultural sectors in the U.S. Its diversity of farmers’ markets throughout the state, urban education programs on farming and nutrition as well as food delivery programs for restaurants makes this the place to be when it comes to growing it…and consuming it locally! Once considered [...]
Providence’s Five Million Dollar Man
What do Providence schools need? The school board apparently thinks it’s high priced consultants. The Providence School Board is taking some heat after they unanimously voted to give a $5 million contract to a consultant to help turn around three low performing schools in Providence. Jeffrey Hernandez, the CEO of National Academic Education Partners Inc., [...]
Obama Plugs Whitehouse’s ‘Buffett Rule’ Bill
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s “Buffett Rule” bill got a big boost today as President Obama, long a fan of the proposal, focused his weekly address on the legislation that would prevent millionaires from shielding their earnings from income taxes. “Now, some people call this class warfare,” Obama said. “But I think asking a billionaire to pay [...]
The Chafee Endorsement Matters For Cicilline
The big political news of the yesterday was Governor Lincoln Chafee’s endorsement of U.S. Representative David Cicilline for Congress in 2012. First, Chris Fierro of Mr. Cicilline’s office tweeted last night that Gov. Chafee attended a fundraiser for the incumbent representative. Then the Governor’s office confirmed as much in this statement. There’s a danger of [...]
Bottled Water Purchases Dehydrate R.I.’s Budget
Bottled water is big business in the United States. How big? Well, according to a report by the Beverage Marketing Corporation, U.S. consumers chugged 8.6 billion gallons of bottled water in 2008, representing nearly 29 percent of the liquid beverage market and exceeding sales of all other beverages except carbonated soft drinks. You might expect ecoRI News [...]
Easy Choice: Meals Tax or Inspection Dereliction
I found myself in my favorite local diner the other day, enjoying, well, a heart-unhealthy breakfast, and look what was on my table: a plea to customers to help the Rhode Island Hospitality Association combat the scourge of a 2% increase in the tax on meals. Proposed by Governor Chafee in his 2013 budget, the [...]
Join Me for a Free Tax Preparation Clinic
During these tough economic times, I want to make sure that every family in the First Congressional District has access to the federal resources available to them. That’s why I hope you can join me a for a Free Tax Preparation Clinic at 9:00 AM this Saturday, March 31st, at the Boys and Girls Club [...]
Cicilline Comes Out Strong Against GOP Budget Bill
On the Huffington Post and on the House floor, Congressman David Cicilline has come out strong against the House GOP budget proposal. Today, after voting against it yesterday, he penned an op/ed for the Huffington Post today critical of the bill writing, “less than a year after a similar proposal was defeated, the House Republican [...]
Ultrasound Bill Bad Idea for Women, Dr.’s, RI
Here at RI Future, we give the Providence Journal editorial board no small amount of grief for their reasoning and positions. But we were very pleased to see them take a strong stance against Rep. Karen MacBeth’s bill that will legislate mandatory ultrasounds for women who have decided to have an abortion. “This approach is [...]
Basic Oil Economics or No More Jed Clampetts
Today’s Morning Joe program on MSNBC featured a typically brain-dead discussion of oil prices. I’ll summarize… Joe Scarborough: We’re producing more oil, but the price is still high. That’s un-possible! Time Mag’s Richard Stengel: I know. Can you believe it? What’s missing from this discussion – and all the blather we’ve heard and will hear [...]
Struggling Cities Also Have Highest Foreclosure Rate
Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls and Woonsocket are not only four of the most “highly distressed” cities in the state in terms of municipal budgets, they also have the highest percentage of foreclosures, according to a new report from HousingWorks RI. Central Falls has the highest percentage of its housing stock lost to foreclosure since 2009 [...]
Dear RI: Where’s the Work?
For those who have never had a day of unemployment that they did not choose, there are no words which can describe the state. For those who, like me, have, you know the feelings. You know the self-loathing, the worthlessness, the despondence, the anger. But most of all, the fear. There is a special terror [...]
Women
- New Providence Subcommittee on Women & Healthy Communities
- Philadelphia-based Feminist Media Activist Group Led By Providence Native, Nuala Cabral, Launches Campaign Supporting Ethnic Studies in Arizona
- April 29: WHEF Bowl-a-Thon
- Imagination, Collective Struggle, and the Inclusion of Artists and Ordinary People: Angela Davis Speaks at RISD in Providence
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