Gabe Amo may be poised for a long career as an elected official in Rhode Island. For that to happen, Amo first has to defeat Republican Gerry Leonard in the off-year election Tuesday in Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District.

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Gerry Leonard calls himself a John Chafee-style Republican. But hard-right lawmakers who struggled for weeks to elect a new speaker typify the club that Leonard wants to join, the GOP caucus in the U.S. House.

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One familiar face in Rhode Island's labor movement, Pat Crowley of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, is poised to take over the leadership of that union. So can labor maintain its local relevance?

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Jack Reed’s first term in the U.S. Senate coincided with the so-called “vacation from history.” That was the period between the end of the Cold War and 9/11, a time marked by a lack of conflict on the world stage. Now, things are very different. The state of war between Hamas and Israel raises concerns […]

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David Morales was 22 years old when he was elected as the state representative for Providence’s Mount Pleasant, Valley and Elmhurst sections. Morales was raised by a single mother in a rural town in California and in 2019, at age 19, he became the youngest person to ever graduate from Brown University’s master’s program in public affairs.

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Dr. Ashish Jha believes that an ounce of data is worth a thousand pounds of opinion. He makes that observation in his bio on X, formerly known as Twitter, where Jha has more than 320,000 followers. That shows how Jha, dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, has emerged as a leading voice on pandemic preparedness and an array of other health-related issues.

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In a small state like Rhode Island, you might think it would be easy to create a good public transit system. But RIPTA has wrestled with a lack of funding virtually since its establishment in the 1960s.

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After growing up in poverty, Cherie Cruz got two degrees at Brown University before she was 40. The Pawtucket Democrat’s role as a Democratic state representative from Pawtucket is informed by different aspects of her life.

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Gabe Amo made history when he won the Democratic primary in Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District earlier this week. The Pawtucket native and former White House aide could become the first person of color to represent the state in Congress.

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Rhode Island voters will decide the outcome of two primaries in the First Congressional District next Tuesday. The Democratic side of the race has gotten most of the attention, since the district is heavily Democratic and the primary winner has a strong chance of coming out on top during the general election.

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