Senior Staff Writer Elysée is a writer for metro, a producer for the Bruno Brief podcast and an aspiring card game creator. She is a second-year student studying International and Public Affairs on the Policy and Governance Track.
The Underground Coffee Company, Brown’s only student-run coffee shop, received 10 violations from the Rhode Island Department of Health in an Oct. 3 report.
Participatory budgeting is a bottom-up investment in public infrastructure where citizens get a direct say in how to fund public projects, explained Jonathan Collins, assistant professor of political science, public policy and education. Participatory budgeting offers a “beacon of hope that ...
On Jan. 26, members of the Providence City Council’s Committee on Finance voted to approve a revised version of the Tax Exemption Agreement for ProvPort, Providence’s main deepwater port operator.
With the signing of a memorandum of understanding Nov. 14, the University has committed to employing all-union labor for any construction project over $25 million for the next five years as part of an agreement with the Rhode Island Building and Construction Trades Council, according to a press release. ...
Gen Z is having less sex than prior generations, but for many young people at Brown, there remains a perception that everyone is participating in “hookup culture,” or casual sexual activity. “There’s this idea of ‘it's college,’ ” said monique jonath ’24. “Everyone is hooking ...
Leonard Jefferson was incarcerated in Rhode Island Maximum Security Prison for nearly two decades. From 1973 to 1985 and from 2014 to 2019, he experienced the state’s prison system from the inside, directly encountering problems ranging from staff misconduct to facility issues that put his health ...
Late on a Thursday night in March, Kamyar Mirfakhraie ’25 was walking to a pick-up soccer game when he felt something hit his jacket. He looked up to see four people in a black car shooting pellets at him — and then felt one strike his hand.
Miller wrote that he believes there is a potential for Rhode Island to adopt some regulations from Massachusetts, such as allowing outdoor cultivation and cafe-style dispensaries.
More than 400 student groups took to the Main Green last Thursday to participate in the annual Fall Activities Fair, hosted by the Student Activities Office and the Undergraduate Council of Students. Each year, the event allows student organizations to showcase their work and recruit new members, ...
Four Democratic candidates who are running to be the mayor of Providence — Gonzalo Cuervo, Nirva LaFortune MA’19, Brett Smiley and Michael Solomon — explained their platforms and answered questions in a Jewelry District Association open forum Tuesday. The event was moderated by Dan McGowan, ...
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