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Brown alum John Krasinski ’01 named People’s 2024 ‘Sexiest Man Alive’
By Talia LeVine and Megan Chan | November 13Does Brown have the hottest alums?
Megan Chan
Senior Staff WriterMegan is a Senior Staff Writer covering community and activism in Providence. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she spends her free time drinking coffee and wishing she was Meg Ryan in a Nora Ephron movie.
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Special Olympics RI provides ‘second family’ to athletes with intellectual disabilities
By Dennis Carey and Megan Chan | November 10When Alex Adams first became involved with the Special Olympics Rhode Island, they recalled feeling “very shy” because they “didn’t know many people.”
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2024 election polls: Centers navigate voter registration challenges
By Sanai Rashid, Abigail Donovan, Avani Ghosh, Ciara Meyer, Andrea Li and Megan Chan | November 5As Rhode Islanders headed to the polls to vote in the 2024 presidential election, The Herald visited three poll locations in Providence and spoke to voters and poll workers.
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This presidential election, Republican and Democrat organizers have their eyes on local races
By Megan Chan | November 5When Christopher Bove became president of College Democrats of Rhode Island, he couldn’t help but notice the lack of political enthusiasm.
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City Council rejects PPSD’s demands for additional $10.9 million in funding
By Megan Chan | October 29Members of the Providence City Council addressed recent funding conflicts with the Providence Public School District during a Tuesday afternoon press conference.
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CVS to lay off over 600 employees reporting to Woonsocket headquarters
By Maya Kelly and Megan Chan | October 22CVS Health plans to lay off 632 employees that report to their headquarters in Woonsocket, the health company announced in a notice to the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training earlier this month.
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RISD to consider an Israel divestment proposal written by students
By Sanai Rashid and Megan Chan | October 21The Rhode Island School of Design’s Board of Trustees will “share their thoughts” on a divestment proposal put forth by RISD Students for Justice in Palestine by March, according to Jaime Marland, a RISD spokesperson.
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Around 50 RISD students rally downtown as part of “Walkout for Palestine”
By Sanai Rashid and Megan Chan | October 7Approximately 50 Rhode Island School of Design students rallied outside 20 Washington Place — a RISD administrative building known as Prov-Wash — Monday afternoon as part of a “Walkout for Palestine.”
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Over 500 people rally at Rhode Island state house in support of Palestine and Lebanon
By Ian Ritter, Avani Ghosh, Andrea Li and Megan Chan | October 6Prior to the state house rally, about 100 students protested on the Main Green.
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Gianna Englert argues that liberalism and democracy haven’t always been compatible
By Megan Chan | October 3Gianna Englert, an associate professor of humanities at the University of Florida, visited Brown on Thursday to discuss her book investigating the tensions between liberal and democratic ideologies in 19th century France.
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