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Rhode Island Nonprofits Feel the Squeeze

Flo Jonic — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:41:47 +0000

It’s hard to turn on the news these days without hearing about another nonprofit in financial trouble. Advent House – the state’s first homeless shelter – is without a director because it can’t afford one. John Hope Settlement House is bleeding $30,000 a month. And the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence has laid off a third of its staff.

NRA Answers Questions From RI Lawmakers

Ian Donnis — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:27:51 +0000

A National Rifle Association lobbyist says Rhode Island already has enough laws to prosecute gun-related crimes.

TGIF: 15 things to know about RI politics + media

Ian Donnis — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:17:37 +0000

A lot of news in the run-up to Christmas; debate over how to reduce school shootings; mediation ordered in the pension case; and the march is on toward our next RI campaign season.

Too many Guns

Scott MacKay — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:06:49 +0000

The carnage of gun violence has marred summer all across America. RIPR Political analyst Scott MacKay says Rhode Island lawmakers can offer a helping hand.

From the Rocky Mountains to New England’s craggy coast, each week brings another desultory report of lives cut short by murder. You can’t flick on a television news spot these days without another incident in the blur of senseless killing.