Category Archives: Featured

Tara Granahan’s What’s Bugging You – a nasty surprise on RIPTA
In this week’s edition of ‘What’s Bugging You?,” Tara talks to RIPTA Director of Public Affairs Barbara Polichetti about a nasty surprise someone discovered on a RIPTA bus. LIS...
Cumulus Media May 08, 2019

LISTEN: The fight over school field trips and who pays for them
Providence Teacher’s Union President Maribeth Calabro joined WPRO’s Tara Granahan on Wednesday to discuss a recent decision by the outgoing Commissioner of Education Ken Wagner, which has ...
Cumulus Media May 08, 2019

ACLU: Rhode Island discriminates against nonfiction writers
photo by areta ekarafi/Flickr PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island has sued the state on behalf of nonfiction writers, saying a sales tax exemption for authors is...
Cumulus Media May 08, 2019

Drugmakers will have to reveal prices in TV ads
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Drugmakers will be required to reveal the prices of their prescription medicines in those ever present TV ads, the Trump administrati...
Cumulus Media May 08, 2019

Mattiello: ‘No sanctuary cities for anything,’ supports 2nd Amendment protections
Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News. Listen to “Speaker Mattiello: No sanctuary cities for anything” on Spreaker. Rhode Island Speaker of the House Nicholas Mattiello, in response to a questi...
Cumulus Media May 08, 2019

PODCAST: Ask Speaker Mattiello – May 8 2019
Listen to “Ask the Speaker 5-8-19” on Spreaker. Rhode Island House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello (D-Cranston) joined WPRO’s Gene Valicenti for the May edition of “Ask the Speaker....
Cumulus Media May 08, 2019

Refusal to hand over Trump’s tax returns sets up legal fight
AP pool photo By ANDREW TAYLOR and JONATHAN LEMIRE, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has made it official: The administration won't be turning President Donald ...
Cumulus Media May 07, 2019

UPDATED: Providence Councilman Salvatore blasts website coverage as false, ‘epitome of fake news’
WPRO News Providence City Councilman and former City Council President David Salvatore released a scathing press release on Monday afternoon criticizing local website GoLocalProv for making ‘vic...
Cumulus Media May 06, 2019

Democrats set contempt vote for Barr over Mueller report
Listen to “Democrats set contempt vote for Barr over Mueller report” on Spreaker. By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO, The Associated Press with WPRO News WASHINGTON (AP) - House Judic...
Cumulus Media May 06, 2019

Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen arrives at prison
Full credit: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images via CNN Listen to “Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen arrives at prison” on Spreaker. NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Cohen, the former lawyer, me...
Cumulus Media May 06, 2019





