Senior Staff Writer Yael is a senior staff writer covering city and state politics. She is junior, and hails from the Bay Area.
On March 7, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management announced it would be expanding the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program. The program’s growth will provide an estimated 10,000 eligible seniors with access to fresh, locally grown produce and goods.
DoorDash, a popular food delivery company, has partnered with Farm Fresh RI’s Harvest Kitchen program to increase “support to program participants outside of the culinary program hours,” according to a press release from DoorDash. Harvest Kitchen trainees will receive $2,500 in DoorDash gift cards ...
In Gov. Dan McKee’s annual State of the State Address last month, one goal stood out: His administration will seek to bring Rhode Island up to the level of Massachusetts student achievement by 2030, echoing a target set last year.
The Rhode Island Coalition to End Homelessness conducted their 2024 Point in Time count on Jan. 24. The PIT is a nationwide count, mandated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to assess the number of people experiencing homelessness on a single night of the year in the last two weeks ...
Providence Streets Coalition released their PVD Crash Data, which includes an interactive map of traffic incidents spanning 13 years of traffic data.
Gov. Dan McKee and Housing Secretary Stefan Pryor announced the state’s winter strategy to address homelessness in Rhode Island.
Democrat Gabe Amo won a special election for Rhode Island’s 1st U.S. Congressional District.
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley has proposed reallocating $20 million of remaining federal American Rescue Plan Act money to housing and other local priorities.
According to the 2019 survey, an average of 53,000 people sought food assistance in Rhode Island each month. In 2023, that number has jumped to 75,000.
Protestors interrupt Mayor Smiley’s PVDFest celebration, demand investigation into ACI conditions
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