• • Ignore the storm clouds over the state budget

    THE BENJAMINS: Given the focus on the gun issue, it’s easy to forget how the House of Representatives passed a $14.3 billion budget last …

  • Letter: An open letter to the RI Congressional delegation, on Israel

    The verdict is in on what Israeli apartheid is doing to the Palestinians – ethnic cleansing since the 1948 Nakba and permanent occupation in …

• • Letter: Why didn’t we start road safety improvements years ago?

    To the editor: After attending the June 10 special meeting on speed cameras, it was hard not to feel like it was just for show. Before …

• • Letter: Support those being illegally targeted for deportation

    To the editor: The League of Women Voters (LWV) Newport County stands in solidarity with those who are heartbroken and outraged by the …

• • The state budget is back to its pre-Covid ways

    1. STORY OF THE WEEK: In some ways, the $14.3 billion budget approved by Rhode Island’s House Finance Committee this week is a return to …

• • Editorial: In Barrington, town-sponsored carnage

    Trees on Lamson Road. Trees on Maple Avenue. Trees near the middle school property. A huge tree on Lorraine Street.   All over Barrington, …

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