Category : Health

City Receives Moshassuck River Grant, Improves FEMA CRS Rating, and Invites Community Flooding Input Pawtucket, RI – The City of Pawtucket is excited to announce a major step forward in its efforts to address flooding and enhance resilience in natural spaces. The City has received grant funding for a planning effort focused on the Moshassuck […]Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha, Governor Daniel J. McKee, House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi, Senate President Valarie J. Lawson, the Rhode Island Department of Health, and the Executive Office of Health and Human Services today released the following statement about next steps in the potential sale of Roger Williams Medical Center and […]Read More

Statement from U.S. Senator Jack Reed   “I’m voting no on the motion to proceed to the appropriations package. ICE/DHS should not move forward without accountability, investigations, and reforms.   “If Republicans want to defend the ICE killings in Minneapolis & shut down key federal agencies, that’s their choice. But Senate Democrats can & will […]Read More

On Friday, January 23 at 10:30 a.m., Governor Dan McKee, U.S. Senator Jack Reed and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) Director Peter Alviti, Jr. will join other federal, state and local officials to mark the completion of the I-95 Providence Viaduct Northbound Project. In addition to replacing the nearly […]Read More

By Steve Klamkin Latino Public Radio   Senator Jack Reed on Wednesday condemned President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, calling them part of a “reckless and chaotic economic policies that are raising prices and fueling inflation.”   In a news conference in his Cranston office, the Democratic U.S. Senator said “The Wall Street Journal reported this […]Read More

By Steve Klamkin Latino Public Radio    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will be barred from using Providence city property or facilities to stage or conduct enforcement actions, under an executive order signed Tuesday by Mayor Brett Smiley.    The order directs Providence Police to not act as immigration officers, not to ask individuals […]Read More