They can serve as pages in the General Assembly. They can drive a car. They can give blood. They can consent to medical care, or sex. They can work 48 hours in a week and pay taxes on these earnings. They can put that money in a savings account they’ve opened. These are some things […] The post Legislators propose giving 16- and 17-year-olds right to vote in school committee elections appeared first on Rhode Island Current.
For more than twenty years, the former Union Primary School sat vacant on its Pawtucket Avenue perch in the Rumford section of East Providence. But now Two local firms teamed up to transform the once empty shell in Rumford into gleaming loft apartments.