Curt Spalding, a former director of Save the Bay, and the current regional administrator for the US Environmental Protection Agency has offered this statement about the passing of Providence Journal environmental reporter Peter Lord: Many of us at EPA ... »
Milton Stanzler, who died yesterday at age 91, is being remembered for his considerable contributions to the arts and civil liberties in Rhode Island. Steve Brown, executive director of the state chapter of the ACLU, offered this statement: With courag... »
Getting ready for the weekend . . . – No Rhode Island pol faces a more potent high-risk/high-reward scenario than Providence Mayor Angel Taveras. No one much blames him for the fiscal nightmare he inherited in Providence, and he’s still building a big ... »
Occupy Providence met in Burnside Park tonight for General Assembly. About thirty people of all ages, backgrounds and conditions attended. The weather had shifted back into unnatural warmth, but still. Getting thirty people to gather in January in the ... »
The Chafee administration plans to back the elevation on Monday of Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian as the next chairman of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority, RIPR has learned. Avedisian would succeed Providence’s director of Planning and Developm... »
Thomas Deller, director of the Providence Department of Planning & Development, has resigned as chairman of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority, according to this agenda for RIPTA’s meeting on Monday. Deller couldn’t immediately be reached for co... »
We wanted to give an update after our post a few weeks back about the first successful gleaning trips. The interest grew in the following weeks and apples were still ripe for the gleaning, so a joint group of Brown University and Johnson & Wales Univer... »
