In recognition of a continuing backlog causing undue hardship to hundreds of poor residents, the ACLU of Rhode Island has set up a telephone hotline for people to call if they are having trouble with their SNAP (food stamp) application being processed in a timely manner. The hotline is a supplement to a pending […]Load more...
On Sunday, December 11, 2016 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., the Rhode Island State Police Museum Foundation will host an open house. The event is free and open to the public. Santa Claus will be available for photographs and to hear children’s Christmas wishes. Hot chocolate, cookies, and light refreshments will be served. Rhode […]Load more...
BOSTON – November 28, 2016 – The Baker-Polito Administration today announced more than $3.9 million in grant awards to 13 communities to protect over 900 acres of land through the Local Acquisitions for Natural Diversity (LAND) Grant Program. The grant program, which is overseen by the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs’ (EEA) Division […]Load more...
The UMass Dartmouth Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will hold the “Maritime Innovation: Connecting, training, and advancing” conference on Wednesday, November 30, from 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM , at 151 Martine Street, Fall River, MA, 02723. “The focus of this year’s conference will be on the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the […]Load more...
Baker-Polito Administration Awards $300,000 to Support Agricultural Buy Local Organizations
BOSTON – November 21, 2016 – The Baker-Polito Administration today announced $300,000 in grants to the Commonwealth’s regional Buy Local agricultural organizations for projects that will enhance efforts in western, central, northeastern and southeastern Massachusetts. Regional agricultural Buy Local organizations connect Bay State farmers with their surrounding communities. Started in the Pioneer Valley with Community […]Load more...
Grant Will Fund Demolition of Abandoned Mill and Parkland Conversion BOSTON – November 21, 2016 – The Baker-Polito Administration today awarded $520,000 to the Town of Monroe to demolish part of the former Ramage Paper Mill and create a new public park in its place. As a condition of the grant, the Town of Monroe […]Load more...
PROVIDENCE, RI – «What cheer, Netop.” The famous greeting of the Narragansett to Roger Williams along the shore of the Seekonk River in 1636 still resonates throughout the Ocean State today. A new exhibition at the Rhode Island State Archives, entitled “First Nations who helped form Rhode Island” chronicles the history of indigenous peoples, including […]Load more...
Article will run in the Summer 2017 issue of the Harvard Journal on Legislation In an article that will run in the Summer 2017 issue of the Harvard Journal on Legislation . University of Massachusetts School of Law Professor Jeremiah Ho and alumnus Alexander Rovzar (UMass Law ’16) propose a bold policy that would promote […]Load more...
This is an open letter to President-elect Trump. I want you to know that America expects better of you as president than what it saw in the campaign you ran. You are now to be our president, and that brings new responsibilities. I hope you feel the call of history to live up to them. […]Load more...
BOSTON – November 10, 2016 – Effective sunrise on Monday, November 14, 2016, the Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) will reopen all approved and conditionally approved shellfish areas in the Town of Wellfleet which were closed on October 13, 2016 as a result of a Norovirus outbreak linked to shellfish harvested from the area. Federal […]Load more...