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WARWICK, R.I. — The Rhode Island State Conservation Committee looks like countless other public bodies that meet under the state’s open meeting laws: representatives gathered around a conference table to discuss challenges facing the communities they serve.
Tucked into the July 8 agenda was a piece of federal legislation with far-reaching implications: fe...
The recently unveiled report makes too much sense for Rhode Island to adopt, or even consider. State power brokers prefer we travel in the breakdown lane.
The report’s authors, realizing state leadership has long been
Picture the same person twice on the same 95-degree July afternoon. First in a Providence commercial kitchen, where the line runs hot past the point any thermostat would admit. Then eight hours later, asleep in a third-floor apartment with one window and no cross-breeze, the room still holding the day’s heat at midnight.
Rhode Island is on the verge of de...
JAMESTOWN, R.I. — If Narragansett Bay can be thought to have recesses, Gould Island has to be counted among them.
The 53-acre island hides in plain sight, visible from the Newport Pell Bridge and in the middle of the East Passage between Newport and Jamestown. While officially part of the town of Jamestown, it’s owned by federal and state governments, and...
WARWICK, R.I. — Census Bureau data shows that about 92% of Rhode Island households have air-conditioning. But as temperatures climb, having an air conditioner doesn’t necessarily mean you can afford to use it.
Recent reporting has hig...