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The clock is ticking for CARES Act grants, which are set to run out at the end of the month. In Fresno, these funds helped to finance the COVID-19 Equity Project, a network of community based organizations providing COVID assistance to vulnerable communities. To find out what will happen to this project if the federal government fails to provide more funding, Valley Edition Host Kathleen Schock spoke with Pao Yang, president and CEO of The Fresno Center, Cheri Cruz, director of public relations at The Fresno Center and Tania Pacheco-Werner, co-assistant director of the Central Valley Health Policy Institute.
Adult Correctional Institutions (
ACI) in Cranston, and the advocates for and family members of those incarcerated demand greater efforts to protect residents and workers at these facilities,
UpriseRI brought questions from various groups to Rhode Island Governor
Gina Raimondo‘s weekly Covid press briefing. Questions were also addressed to Dr
Nicole Alexander Scott, the director of the
Rhode Island Department of Health (
RIDOH).
UpriseRI: With the outbreak at the ACI, people have been calling for lowering the population there. Dr
Jennifer Clarke, the outgoing medical director said that efforts should be taken to reduce the prison population. What are your opinions on that?