Some municipal officials say key elements of House Speaker Joseph Shekarchi’s signature package of new housing laws will be a boon to developers and less helpful at boosting Rhode Island’s stock of affordable housing. https://t.co/Z8mFfsmVRa
@ActOnClimateRI Hope for Climate Change! Join us for a LivableRI reception on December 1 from 5pm to 8pm. @WesterlyLibrary and @theMaltBarley in Westerly. Your invitation is attached.
@BillBartholomew@ecoRInews @ecoRI_Tim @MikeWChip@PaulRoselli4RI really good episode. looking forward to more. sadly this has become part of my life as they are probably going to clear-cut 200 acres behind my property for a solar farm in west greenwich.
Oh gosh!! Rhode Island is in the news again. We are behind Massachusetts in lowest birthrates in the country. Well, that means less lines at DOT. https://t.co/coDHnKITqo
Sen @SamuelWBell rises to say he will not vote for @SenatorRuggerio as Prez, acknowledging it’s highly unusual to give speech against him.
Cites policy diffs including taxes, guns, abortion. Bell also sent media 16 news articles on Ruggerio‘s arrests and other negative episodes.
First, @NellieGorbea took the law into her own hands, refused to release public voter records. Now, @AGKilmartin coaches police how to withhold public arrest reports. Transparency is under assault in Rhode Island. Hope incoming AG @PeterNeronha is more enlightened. @FiveFreedoms
"Status quo is a suicide machine," @TimmonsRoberts "We are living with the possible". A May 1st deadline to state legislature to help influence existing legislation. "What we have now is a system of institutional inertia," Ken Payne @ClimateActionRI @RIProgDems @IanDon@TedNesi
@TimmonsRoberts and Ken Payne from the Civic Alliance for a Cooler Rhode Island at press briefing on Resilient RI Act and the EC4. "Can't do business as usual any more. Need for reductions increases over years. How we count carbon emissions becomes crucial. #environmentaljustice
Civic Alliance for a Cooler Rhode Island - press briefing on EC4 and the Resilient RI Act "The EC4 is purely a coordinating council. But a council with no teeth." @RI_Progressives@UpriseRI@KuffnerAlex
@IanDon@TedNesi@FentonJosh Today, press briefing on an assessment of the Resilient RI Act and EC4. Written by Ken Payne,"Since the work of the EC4 involves matters profoundly important to the future of Rhode Island, how well the EC4 is performing is a public question." RSVP