Category Archives: Politics
Rhode Island moves forward on truck tolls
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island transportation officials are moving forward on plans to install electronic tolls that will charge big-rig trucks for traveling along Interstate 95 and other highwa...
Dec 06, 2016
OPINION: Is the Democratic Party learning from its repeatedly disastrous mistakes yet?
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks at her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Opinion piece by Christopher Currie I...
Dec 05, 2016
LISTEN: Pell Center- Top local story of the year is Truck Tolls
Governor Gina Raimondo's ambitious and controversial plan to modernize aging state roads and bridges - in part, through the imposition of tolls on trucks - has been voted the 2016 Pell Center Rhode Is...
Dec 05, 2016
OPINION: Post-election thoughts at Thanksgiving
By Sen. Harold M. Metts A Sunday hymn before Thanksgiving reminded me that "every day is a day of thanksgiving; God's been so good to me; Every day, he's blessing me." It is with this thought that I w...
Nov 30, 2016
Trump says he’s leaving businesses to focus on presidency
(AP Photo/David Goldman) JULIE PACE, Associated Press LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s leaving his business empire ...
Nov 30, 2016
House Democrats re-elect Pelosi as leader
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks at her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ERICA WERNER, AP Congressional Corres...
Nov 30, 2016
Newly elected legislators learn the ropes on Smith Hill
photo by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News Newly elected legislators take part in a day-long orientation at the State House Tuesday to learn the ropes on Smith Hill. There ar...
Nov 29, 2016
Two US officials to attend Fidel Castro’s funeral
FILE – In this Jan. 18, 2016, file photo Jeffrey DeLaurentis, awaiting Senate confirmation to be U.S. ambassador to Cuba, speaks in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) WASHINGTON (AP)...
Nov 29, 2016
Providence Mayor Elorza creates advisory board to ‘protect Muslim Americans’
photo by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News Already gaining national attention for protecting undocumented immigrants from deportation, Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza creates a Muslim...
Nov 22, 2016
‘Hamilton’ actor: ‘There’s nothing to apologize for’
In this image made from a video provided by Hamilton LLC, actor Brandon Victor Dixon who plays Aaron Burr, the nations third vice president, in “Hamilton” speaks from the stage after the c...
Nov 21, 2016
