This piece was originally submitted as a speech for the Class of 2021’s Commencement. Before last March, I had never seen someone open a trash can with their elbows. For whatever reason, that is the detail I visualize when I recall my first impression of what would soon explode into the COVID-19 ...
CORPORATE Colleen Cronin President, The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. Editor-in-Chief, The Herald Allie Reed Vice President, The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. Managing Editor, The Herald Mariel Jackson Treasurer, The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. General Manager, The Herald Nicolas Fabrizio Secretary, The Brown ...
The march to the Rhode Island State House was loud. The eight minutes and 46 seconds spent sitting on the State House steps were almost silent. To recognize the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, more than 1,000 protestors took part in a youth-led and organized rally in Providence Friday afternoon. Protestors ...
CORPORATE Colleen Cronin President, The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. Editor-in-Chief, The Herald Allie Reed Vice President, The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. Managing Editor, The Herald Mariel Jackson Treasurer, The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. General Manager, The Herald Nicolas Fabrizio Secretary, The Brown ...
State and local candidates form progressive coalition Former gubernatorial candidate Matt Brown is co-chairing a new progressive coalition to elect at least 25 new progressive candidates to the Rhode Island Legislature and unseat incumbent Democrats in the process. According to its website, “the RI ...
After hearing Providence residents testify about the luxury development project Fane Tower, the I-195 Redevelopment District Commission voted to approve the tower design released Monday. The commission also approved three waivers to zoning laws, which the design plan required. If constructed, the tower ...
Testimony at a standard legal hearing grew personal and searing Friday, when students, parents and community members packed into a room to advocate for a formal role in the upcoming R.I. state takeover of the Providence Public School District. Just before the actual administrative hearing at the School ...
Wyatt Detention Facility postpones public board meeting The public board of directors meeting at Wyatt Detention Facility, originally scheduled for Monday evening, was postponed hours before the event over concerns about the large number of people expected to attend. The date of the rescheduled meeting ...
At the State House: What Passed, and What Didn’t Reproductive Privacy Act — Signed by Gov. Gina Raimondo June 19 Forty-six years after Roe v. Wade established federal protection of reproductive care and weeks after states like Alabama moved to restrict abortion access, Rhode Island’s elected ...
On Wednesday, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha spoke at a press conference to provide further details about the state’s investigation into violence by correctional employees that disrupted a peaceful protest by the advocacy group Never Again Action outside the Donald W. Wyatt Detention ...
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