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RI Delegation Announces $2 million to Boost Local Vaccination Efforts
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RI Delegation Announces $2 million to Boost Local Vaccination Efforts

LPR News December 31, 2022

Community Health Centers receive grants from new HRSA imitative expanding access to updated COVID-19 vaccines PROVIDENCE, RI – Several Rhode Island community health organizations are getting a boost from a new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services program meant to increase vaccination rates for COVID-19 in underserved populations. In an effort to combat a winter surge of […]Read More

Mayor-elect Brett Smiley Announces Department Directors
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Mayor-elect Brett Smiley Announces Department Directors

LPR News December 30, 2022

PROVIDENCE, RI- Today, Mayor-elect Brett Smiley announced additional Department Director appointments that will begin serving with the new Administration in January.   “I’m incredibly proud of the team that we are building and the quality of the candidates who have expressed interest in coming on board,” said Mayor-elect Brett Smiley. “I am excited to announce […]Read More

US-China Rivalry Increases Tension in Southeast Asia
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US-China Rivalry Increases Tension in Southeast Asia

LPR News December 28, 2022

VOA NEWS-Lim Peh Hong, Liam Scott WASHINGTON — As the United States and China compete for influence worldwide, tension is rising between the superpowers in Southeast Asia over economic policies, territorial disputes in the South China Sea and Taiwanese independence. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) came into effect on January 1. RCEP is a China-led […]Read More

Cicilline, Buck Release Bill to Hold Online Platforms Accountable for Promoting Extremism
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Cicilline, Buck Release Bill to Hold Online Platforms Accountable for

LPR News December 27, 2022

Washington, D.C.—Representative David N. Cicilline, Chair, and Representative Ken Buck, Ranking Member, of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law today announced the Platform Integrity Act, a bipartisan bill to correct judicial misinterpretation of a provision of the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. 230(c)(1), by recognizing that online platforms may be […]Read More

McKee Administration to Release Request for Qualifications for State’s Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Program
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McKee Administration to Release Request for Qualifications for State’s Non-Emergency

LPR News December 27, 2022

Feedback from clients, community and national best practices built into proposal to ensure greater accountability, transparency and safety PROVIDENCE, RI – Today, the McKee Administration’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services announced that is is releasing an RFQ (Request For Qualifications) for the state’s non-emergency medical transportation program. The RFP will be available later this […]Read More

Mayor-elect Brett Smiley Announces Public Safety Appointments
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Mayor-elect Brett Smiley Announces Public Safety Appointments

LPR News December 27, 2022

PROVIDENCE, RI- Today, Mayor-elect Brett Smiley announced several key appointments within Providence Public Safety that will serve with the new Administration in January.   “A top priority of my Administration is ensuring that every resident feels safe and that our community feels as though our public safety officials are accessible and qualified,” said Mayor-elect Brett […]Read More

Chaotic Year at US-Mexico Border Foreshadows More Problems Ahead
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Chaotic Year at US-Mexico Border Foreshadows More Problems Ahead

LPR News December 27, 2022

VOA NEWS-Aline Barros The COVID-19 pandemic and other U.S. efforts to stop asylum access significantly impacted immigration policy and enforcement in the United States in 2022. In various reports, U.S. border officials and immigration advocates say border numbers reflect the deteriorating economic and political conditions in some countries that drive people to come to the […]Read More

Cicilline Spends Christmas with Troops in the Middle East
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Cicilline Spends Christmas with Troops in the Middle East

LPR News December 26, 2022

Visits with Rhode Islanders in Bahrain and Kuwait Congressman David N. Cicilline (RI-01), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and Global Counter terrorism, is currently leading a bipartisan delegation of six Members of Congress to visit U.S. troops overseas to thank them for their service, participate in briefings from […]Read More

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