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News & Culture

Zak Mertz holds a spring peeper frog, moments before setting it free next to a vernal pool in Weymouth
Article
Climate & Environment
Climate & Environment
As Spring Arrives, So Does a Symphony of Nature Sounds
April 4, 2025
 · 
Craig LeMoult
Sen. Sam Zurier, a Providence Democrat, wants to radically revise the Crowley Act, which regulates school district takeovers in Rhode Island. The current law does not offer much detail on how the takeovers should operate.
Article
Education
Education
Rhode Island Senators Float Alternatives for a Decades-Old School Takeover Law
April 4, 2025
 · 
Alexander Castro
The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island (pictured) played host to a three-hour hearing on Thursday, April 3 in a lawsuit challenging frozen funds to environmental nonprofits.
Article
News & Culture
News & Culture
What Comes First: Freeze or Review? This is the Question a Federal Judge in Providence Must Decide
Three-hour hearing in environmental nonprofits lawsuit centers on powers of federal agencies
April 4, 2025
 · 
Nancy Lavin
A pair of bills moving through the Rhode Island General Assembly would permit patients to fill multiple months of their ADHD medications — like methylphenidate, or generic Ritalin, shown here — in a single visit to the pharmacy.
Article
Health
Health
Rhode Island Lawmakers Align on ADHD Prescription Bill. Doctors Are More Divided
April 4, 2025
 · 
Alexander Castro
Tony Perratta of East Greenwich said he's worried about creeping authoritarianism.
Article
The Public’s Radio
The Public’s Radio
Anxiety About Democracy Highlights Town Hall in East Greenwich
Rep. Magaziner calls for voters to keep speaking up
April 4, 2025
 · 
Ian Donnis
Article
The Public’s Radio
The Public’s Radio
Trump Tariffs Could Hurt, But Also Create an Incentive to Buy Local
Local farmer’s markets may help, according to food policy advocates
April 4, 2025
 · 
David Wright
Screenshot from The Samaritans of Rhode Island website.
Article
Health
Health
A Soothing Space for Healing: Samaritans of Rhode Island’s New Website Offers Art, Resources, and Support
After four years of development, the Samaritans’ new website combines mental health resources with calming artwork to provide a welcoming, life-saving experience for those in need of support
April 4, 2025
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G. Wayne Miller
Amy Glidden said that the Rhode Island Transit Riders think staying in Kennedy Plaza would be perfectly fine.
Article
The Public’s Radio
The Public’s Radio
Advocates Push Back Against Potential RIPTA Hub Sites
Transit riders say moving the Kennedy Plaza bus hub is the last thing RIPTA should be focusing on while it still has a more than $30 million funding hole to fill
April 3, 2025
 · 
Olivia Ebertz
A NOAA NO-XP radar antenna prior to operations in VORTEX 2 in Norman, Oklahoma, on Oct. 5, 2010.
Article
Climate & Environment
Climate & Environment
U.S. House Dems Say NOAA Cuts Will Harm Weather Forecasting, Fisheries, Navy Operations
Rhode Island U.S. Rep. Magaziner says mass layoffs at agency are ‘outright dangerous’
April 3, 2025
 · 
Jacob Fischler
Kevin McNamara addresses a gathering at the Amica Mutual Pavilion. On Monday he will speak during the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Article
Sports
Sports
Longtime Providence Sports Scribe Kevin McNamara Called to the Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame
Former Providence Journal sports writer will be honored during the NCAA Final Four
April 3, 2025
 · 
Mike Szostak
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