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RIC president Jack Warner says the cuts were not made for financial reasons, but are designed to eliminate majors with low demand. Opponents of the abrupt cuts say that this decision unnecessarily limits student opportunities and was made with few chances for campus feedback -
Payday supporters call it a source for those without other means
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Speaker Shekarchi calls the effort important for retaining the company -
The payment resolves a federal lawsuit against former patrolman Michael Pessoa, who was convicted in 2023 of punching a handcuffed suspect in the face and filing false reports to cover up the incident -
Rhode Island celebrates the arrival of spring with the tradition of May Breakfasts. The oldest, at Cranston’s Oaklawn Community Baptist Church, has been going strong for 156 years -
Failure to pass police decertification laws results in information black hole on officers -
Legislation to strengthen police oversight repeatedly thwarted in Rhode Island -
Brown Environmental Studies and Sociology professor J. Timmons Roberts says the federal government’s actions have rendered the school a very different place than just a year ago -
Former Majority Leader Pearson says other senators sparked his falling out with Ruggerio -
But Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha calls the governor’s plan “half-baked” -
The closure of a trusted practice highlights a growing crisis in Rhode Island’s healthcare system — with long waitlists, aging doctors, and patients left behind -
Ruggerio was the longest-serving lawmaker in Rhode Island
