VOA News The Obama administration has named a senior official to help deal with the toxic water crisis plaguing the city of Flint, Michigan. President Barack Obama met Tuesday with Flint Mayor Karen Weaver to hear firsthand about how her city’s residents were dealing with the public health crisis. Obama said Dr. Nicole Lurie, assistant […]readmore
How can we tackle the world’s biggest killer – cancer? This is the mission of US Vice-President, Joe Biden, who has called for a “moonshot” to find a cure for the disease. The Vice-President recently penned a piece for the Forum’s blog platform,Agenda, about the moonshot campaign. He has, of course, been touched personally by […]readmore
Rhode Island – la Asamblea General de RI rendirá homenaje al niño de Westerly que sufre de cáncer, declarando el miércoles como el día de #DStrong en nuestro estado. Dorian estará presente para la lectura de la Proclamación.readmore
Central Falls – En la celebración anual de Martin Luther King Jr., los niños escucharon de líderes comunitarios y el alcalde James Diossa sobre la vida del Dr. King. Con bailes y cantos pasaron una noche alegra y aprendiendo de nuestra historia. El entreteniendo estuvo a carde de Blackstone Valley Pero School, Proyecto 401, Noah […]readmore
Nueva Inglaterra – La policía estatal de Massachusetts está investigando varias amenazas de bomba reportada a través del estado. En Rhode Island, el distrito escolar pidió a los estudiantes de una escuela en Bristol que permanecieran alejados del recinto. Con estas temperaturas tan frías el problema es más grande para las autoridades. La policía no […]readmore
VOA News The first of several thousand Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica have crossed into the United States under a plan agreed to among Central American leaders. The migrants arrived in Miami Sunday, after 180 of them first crossed the U.S. border late last week at Laredo, Texas. The deal allows the migrants to […]readmore
VOA News After being released from Iran as part of a prisoner swap, a group of Americans got to meet Monday with family and supporters who spent months and years following their cases from afar and advocating for their release. Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian met with senior editors from the newspaper at a U.S. […]readmore
Carolyn Presutti, Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will hear a case challenging President Barack Obama’s plan to protect more than 4 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow them to work legally in the United States. The president’s executive order was aimed at deferring deportation of parents of American-born children and […]readmore
January 19th, 2015 #innovateRI Rhode Island Innovates Metropolitan Policy Program Slater Mill 1793 The Beginning of the Industrial Revolution Blurring Distinction Between Manufacturing and Services Relentless Pace of Technological Change “Digitization of Everything” 2016 R&D-intensive industries that concentrate the nation’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. A M E R I C W H […]readmore
Brookings report on RI’s economy podcast Neil Steinberg President and CEO Rhode Island Foundation Mark Muro Senior Fellow and Policy Director Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program and Bruce Katz Brookings Institution The Honorable Gina Raimondo Governor State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Stefan Pryor Secretary of Commerce State of Rhode Island Rhode Island – […]readmore