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Ocean State Media is celebrating its first birthday as the new home for public media in Rhode Island – please consider making a contribution to support our journalism. Thanks for stopping by. You can follow me through the week on Bluesky, Threads and X. *** Want to get my column in your inbox every Friday? Sign up right here *** My weekly “One on One” interviews are now available as an Apple podcast.

Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems like the future of our planet and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. This episode, we’re asking, when you flush your unused or expired medication down the toilet, do they actually disappear? We had Minjun Kim and Merissa Underwood from our Possibly Team look into this.

#TFW when you buy tickets for the last Sox game of the year during the team’s July hot steak and can’t go since an incoming storm forced a date change and you’re here writing this column. Thanks for stopping by. You can follow me through the week on Bluesky, Threads and X. *** Want to get my column in your inbox every Friday? Sign up right here *** My weekly “One on One” interviews are now available as an Apple podcast.

Rudy Cheeks, an iconic figure in Providence’s creative underground and a Providence Phoenix columnist known for delightfully tweaking Rhode Island’s most powerful politicians, died over the weekend at age 76 after a long illness.

The late summer-early autumn festival circuit gets a big boost with the return of PVD Fest this weekend. Thanks for stopping by. You can follow me through the week on Bluesky, Threads and X. *** Want to get my column in your inbox every Friday? Sign up right here *** My weekly “One on One” interviews are now available as an Apple podcast. As Rhode Island shifts to the general election, you won’t want to miss in-depth interviews with candidates in some of the most consequential races.

There are few things like the surprises that emerge from a hard-fought election season. Thanks for stopping by. You can follow me through the week on Bluesky, Threads and X. *** Want to get my column in your inbox every Friday? Sign up right here *** My weekly “One on One” interviews are now available as an Apple podcast. As Rhode Island shifts to the general election, you won’t want to miss in-depth interviews with candidates in some of the most consequential races.

The League of Rhode Island Businesses, a conservative-leaning advocacy group that developed an unorthodox approach to channel campaign funds to legislative candidates, struck out in its first attempt to reshape the General Assembly. All nine candidates backed by LORIB lost their races in Wednesday’s primary election, most of them by lopsided margins. Leah Boisclair, a criminal-defense lawyer from Charlestown, was considered one of LORIB’s top prospects. Running as a Democrat, she challenged Rep.

With the passing of Gloria Steinem at age 92, it’s worth remembering that women lawmakers in the Rhode Island House of Representatives didn’t get their own bathroom until… 2007. Thanks for stopping by. You can follow me through the week on Bluesky, Threads and X. *** Want to get my column in your inbox every Friday? Sign up right here *** My weekly “One on One” interviews are now available as an Apple podcast.

El audio de arriba está en inglés. Read in English Un trabajador de construcción terminó hospitalizado después de que agentes del Servicio de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas lo electrocutaran con un dispositivo TASER y le dieran patadas en la cabeza durante un arresto en la mañana del jueves, según informan los representantes de Danbury Unites for Immigrants (DUFI).

The reliability of Census Bureau information during the Trump administration is coming under question again. This month, the bureau's parent agency, the Commerce Department, quietly cut language banning political interference from the department's scientific integrity policy, NPR has learned. The removal was part of an unannounced policy revision dated Aug.