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Topher Hamblett, executive director of Save The Bay, discusses the challenges facing the advocacy group's efforts to preserve the gains achieved to protect Narragansett Bay during the last five decades from the onslaught of climate change.
To save Narragansett Bay
PROVIDENCE – First Beach in Newport is slip-sliding away. The Cliff Walk is disintegrating and eroding. A major source 0f Newport’s fresh water supply, located behind First Beach, is in … more
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R.I. Attorney General Peter Neronha, surrounded by his legal team, announcing the decision in 2021 to approve the transfer of ownership of Prospect Medical Holdings for two Rhode Island hospitals, conditioned on the creation of an $82 million escrow account.
“Hospitals and bankruptcy” — a new lyric for our times
PROVIDENCE – The lyric for a new Broadway smash hit perhaps might begin: “ Hospitals and bankruptcy , hospitals and bankruptcy , go together like a… choose your simile.   … more
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Jennifer Hawkins, the president and CEO of ONE Neighborhood Builders.
Why housing is the solution to homelessness
Editor’s Note: Housing Secretary Stefan Pryor has departed, leaving behind a trail of questionable business practices. Pryor’s right-hand communications man, Matt Shaeff, had left a few … more
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On Tuesday, June 18, Richard Asinof received the "Advocacy in Action" award from the Community Care Alliance, "In recognition of accuracy in reporting health care, social service and behavioral health concerns related to neglected and marginalized populations. For dedication indirectly addressing policy matters on behalf of people that often feel unseen and have no voice politically." Attorney General Peter Neronha attended the event, and later posted on X: "Well deserved -- no better coverage of health care and related issues than by @RichardAsinof -- and what a distinguished career. Congratulations and grateful that I could attend."
Creating spaces to meet people where they are
WOONSOCKET – It was a big two weeks for Attorney General Peter Neronha. On Thursday, June 20, the Attorney General and his legal team announced the regulatory decision his office had arrived at … more
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One of a series of 100 watercolors by artist Mira Cantor from her show, "State of Siege," depicting the murder of George Floyd."There was nothing I could do except make these drawings, to show my anger at the situation," Cantor said. It's a body that can't move because someone else is preventing that movement. It says everything about a person who's unable to stand up for himself, unable to think, because of another person's aggression.
Mira Cantor: A passion for life
BOSTON, Mass. – Mira Cantor has taught color theory, drawing and painting for 40 years, 25 of them as a tenured professor in the Art and Architecture Department at Northeastern University. … more
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Nancy Wolanski, Director of the Alliance for Nonprofit Impact at United Way of Rhode Island.
Breaking down the barriers around racial equity
PROVIDENCE – One of the things most admirable about the nonprofit sector in Rhode Island is its compassion-action dynamic. So many charitable organizations have been created when caring … more
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