Kristine Sullivan Disability Rights RI - St. Mary's Home for Children investigation

The federally-mandated group Disability Rights Rhode Island is conducting an independent investigation of the troubled St. Mary's Home for Children in North Providence, apart from the state probes already initiated by the Rhode Island Department of Children Youth and Families and Office of the Chil…

Lynn Singleton - PPAC 2024-2025 season announcement

Lynn Singleton, President of the Providence Performing Arts Center talks about the theater's 2024 - 2025 season highlights  ppacri.org 

John Marion - Sunshine Week

Sunshine Week is March 10-16; formed by news organizations, civic and watchdog groups and others to spark discussion of transparency in government and open meetings. There are a number of events in Rhode Island.  John Marion of Common Cause of RI and ACCESS/RI is featuring a free, interactive pane…

AG Peter Neronha - Community Violence Intervention and Prevention

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha launches a first of its kind Community Violence Intervention and Prevention initiative in his office.  #WPRO  The effort will be headed by P.J. Fox, the one-time director of the Institute for Nonviolence in Providence  https://riag.ri.gov/

Nancy Wolanski - Alliance for Nonprofit Impact

Nancy Wolanski is the first director of the newly-formed Alliance for Nonprofit Impact in Rhode Island, launched by the United Way to act as an advocate for the state's many nonprofit organizations.   https://www.unitedwayri.org/for-nonprofits/alliance-nonprofit-impact/ 

Weayonnoh Nelson-Davies - Economic Progress Institute

Governor Dan McKee proposed in his State of the State address to raise Rhode Islanders' per-capital income by $20,000 by 2030. Weayonnoh Nelson-Davies of the Economic Progress Institute responded with some suggestions, and pressed to ensure that low-income Rhode Islanders are taken into account.   …

Loren Spears - Grant for new Tomaquag Museum

Executive Director Loren Spears talks about the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter receiving a boost with a more than $444,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, to build a new museum near the University of Rhode Island campus in Kingston.  https://www.tomaquagmuseum.org/

Caroline Parente - Miss Rhode Island

Miss Rhode Island, Caroline Parente leaves shortly for the Miss America competition in Orlando, Florida. The finals will be available to view live on YouTube on Sunday, January 14.   https://www.missamerica.org/ 

RI Secretary of State Gregg Amore - Colorado ruling on Trump ballot eligibility

Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore weighs in on the ruling by the Colorado supreme court that would take Donald Trump off that state's primary election ballot, a decision being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.  https://www.sos.ri.gov/ 

Kimberly Simmons - "Pay for Success" aims to end homelessness

Kimberly Simmons, executive director of the Rhode Island Coalition to End Homelessness on the launch of the public & private "Pay for Success" pilot program, aimed at ending homelessness by breaking the cycle of housing instability and poor health outcomes.  https://www.rihomeless.org/