Protesters blocked from entering rotunda during Rhode Island governor’s State of the State address
Demonstrators found the rotunda cordoned off with a sign saying it was reserved from 4:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. for the governor’s ...
The Brown Daily Herald6d
RI legislators call on Gov. McKee to declare homelessness a public health emergency
For the last three years, RIHAP has called on the state to declare homelessness a state of emergency or a public health ...
Funding freeze uncertainty causes confusion for Rhode Island nonprofits
As the day got underway at Children's Friend in Providence, CEO David Caprio was trying to figure out what a federal funding ...
The Nation5d
“If Not for This, I’d Be Freezing to Death”: The Fight in Providence to Open a Temporary Shelter
How a pair of Providence city councilors bucked the mayor—and the trend of homelessness criminalization nationwide—to open an ...
ACLU considers First Amendment lawsuit over roped-off rotunda during R.I. State of the State speech
On the Rhode Island Report podcast, ACLU’s Steven Brown and BLM RI PAC’s Harrison Tuttle criticize Governor McKee for ...
RIPR: The Public's Radio8d
RI Housing Secretary says pallet shelters at ECHO Village will open in a matter of weeks
The long-awaited 45 shelter beds at ECHO Village, Rhode Island’s first pallet shelter community, will soon be available to the state’s rapidly growing homeless population, according to testimony from ...