Category Archives: Politics

Students gathered outside Chafee Hall on Thursday after reports of a gunman on campus. Listener photo. By Dan Yorke, WPRO A STATE OF CONFUSION It was just that at URI yesterday as students poured out ...

Governor Lincoln Chafee. WPRO file photo.  By Steve Klamkin and Kim Kalunian, WPRO News Governor Lincoln Chafee said the state will take a close look at how the University of Rhode Island gunman ...

Liz Burke, WPRO News Rhode Island officials and law makers joined together at the State House to announce three bills having to do with school safety. “We know as adults, you can’t presume...

  WPRO Newsroom and the Assocaited Press   PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A Rhode Island state senator wants to keep closer tabs on the long list of state commissions and boards that largely ...

Matthew Lannon testifies at the hearing for Rhode Island's same-sex marriage bill. Photo by Kim Kalunian, WPRO News. By Kim Kalunian, WPRO News Matthew Lannon, the 12-year-old Wheeler student who...

By Kim Kalunian, WPRO News The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony this week on a bill that would eliminate straight party voting, otherwise known as the “master lever.” The Hou...

In a mostly empty hearing room, Peter Marino asks the state's personnel director to grant pay raises to the director's of state exectuive departments. Photo by Steve Klamkin, WPRO News. By S...

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino WPRO Newsroom On Thursday morning, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino officially announced he would not be seeking another term. It would have been Menino’s sixth, an unpreced...

By Kim Kalunian, WPRO News After a nearly four hour meeting, the RIGOP Credentials Committee has decided not to contest the vote that earned Mark Smiley the title of chairman of the Rhode Island Repub...

WPRO Newsroom A public hearing notice released by the Department of Administration Monday shows proposed 6-percent pay increases for directors of state executive departments like the Department of Hea...