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Bill Bartholomew welcomes Rep Cherie Cruz and tenant/advocate Lawliet Journey - who was evicted from their home without cause - for a discussion on legislation that would protect tenants from unfair evictions and rent increases.

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Bill Bartholomew welcomes Providence Journal reporter Antonia Noori Farzan to discuss her in-depth story on the disappearance of the Rhode Island accent.

Antonia Noori Farzan is an American journalist. She was educated in Hamilton College and Columbia University. Farzan was a journalist for Business Insider, The Independent and the Phoenix New Times, and Washington Post. She writes for The Providence Journal. In 2017 Farzan won the George Polk Award with Joseph Flaherty for her article in the Phoenix New Times which revealed "that Motel 6 motels in Phoenix, Arizona, provided nightly guest rosters to ICE".

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RI native Manya Glassman is a director, writer and editor based in New York City. She has directed, written, and edited six films of her own and produced over eleven short films. Manya's films have been screened and gained recognition at Oscar qualifying festivals, such as the Rhode Island International Festival.

She joins Bill Bartholomew to discuss her latest film How I Learned to Die, which will be screening at Tribeca.

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Amidst an ongoing labor dispute, two workers at Butler Hospital join Bill Bartholomew.

• Brooke Huminski, LICSW, Clinician/Social Worker in the Inpatient Assessment Center: Brooke has been at Butler for eight years in Butler's ER. She evaluates patients before they are treated. She is a strike captain.
  
  
• Nicole Anthony: Niki is a Registered Nurse with a background in both mental health and ICU nursing She has worked at Butler for 2.5 years  and currently works in Riverview 2 which is a brand new unit that opened in 2024. She is also a union delegate and on the negotiating committee.

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Bill Bartholomew welcomes state representative June Speakman, state senator Bridget Valverde, Housing Network RI Executive Director Melina Lodge, East Greenwich councilor Rene Engleart and East Greenwich resident Leigh Curtin for a roundtable on how unrestricted HOA increases impact affordable housing, and legislation that seeks to protect residents of these properties.

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Dr. Philip A. Chan, MD, MS is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Brown University. He has a secondary appointment in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Chan is Medical Director of the only publicly funded sexually transmitted diseases (STD) clinic in Rhode Island, as well as Rhode Island’s only dedicated Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Program.

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Bill Bartholomew discusses an article in The Boston Globe in which he states that he is mulling a run for lieutenant governor of Rhode Island, plus, Providence councilor Sue AnderBois stops by Bartholomewtown. 

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Steven Feinberg is the Executive Director of the Rhode Island Film & Television Office, and has led the office for the past 20 years. He's known for bringing major productions to Rhode Island and for his work on the film "Pell". He also created a transferrable film tax credit that has attracted many big-budget films to the state. 

He joins Bill Bartholomew to discuss the production of "Real Housewives of Rhode Island" and other film and TV projects.

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Representative Megan Cotter joins Bill Bartholomew to discuss her latest legislative efforts to mitigate forest fires in Rhode Island.

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Grow Smart Rhode Island's Jillian Finkle joins Bill Bartholomew.

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