PROVIDENCE A minor crash in the parking lot moments before a session of the Rhode Island Senate has caused paperwork headaches for state Sen. Tiara Mack, whose car registration had lapsed and who had put off getting a Rhode Island driver s license since moving back to the state in 2018.
The incident has provided fodder for right-wing media outlets, one of which proclaimed she may have “fraudulently assumed office.”
Mack arrived at the Rhode Island College campus for the Jan. 19 Senate session. Because of the pandemic, Senate sessions are held on Tuesdays in Sapinsley Hall, which has room to allow for social distancing.
Heavier snow likely to knock out power and drop more than a foot before it s done Jack Perry, The Providence Journal
Roads should be in good shape for the Tuesday morning commute despite a nor easter that was forecast to drop up to 18 inches of snow on Rhode Island, the director of Rhode Island s Department of Transportation said.
Anyone trying to commute on Monday evening, against the advice of the Rhode Island State Police, had a rough ride.
By 3:30 p.m. the state police reported 10 crashes, none with serious injuries; said they had assisted 13 drivers and stoped 34 tractor-trailer drivers who were still on the road despite the governor s ban against big rigs on state roads starting at 5 a.m. Monday.
Seeking ideas for ending violence between police and people of color, the local chapter of Links, an international society for women of color, invited a scholar, a lawmaker, a police chief and a state trooper to speak from their experience at a virtual forum Thursday night.
As the panelists called out stereotypes, lies, assumptions and faulty logic, solutions started to emerge.
In opening the forum, “Blue in Black and Brown Communities: Policing and People of Color,” Marilyn Mathews, a committee chairwoman in the local chapter, Greater Providence RI Links Inc., mentioned that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is a fellow member of Links, an organization founded in 1946.
PROVIDENCE A bill in the R.I. House would allow a law enforcement dog injured on duty to be taken by ambulance to a veterinary hospital if the ambulance isn’t needed for a human.
The addition to the Animal Care section of state law was introduced last year by R.I. Rep. David A. Bennett, whose district covers parts of Cranston and Warwick. The bill expired in the COVID-shortened legislative season of 2020, Bennett said, and he reintroduced it on Monday. It was referred to the House Health, Education & Welfare Committee.
The measure defines police dogs as dogs assisting a law-enforcement or military entity with such tasks as search and rescue, detecting accelerants in the aftermath of a fire, finding drugs and sweeping for bombs.
PROVIDENCE A bill in the R.I. House would allow a law enforcement dog injured on duty to be taken by ambulance to a veterinary hospital if the ambulance isn’t needed for a human.
The addition to the Animal Care section of state law was introduced last year by R.I. Rep. David A. Bennett, whose district covers parts of Cranston and Warwick. The bill expired in the COVID-shortened legislative season of 2020, Bennett said, and he reintroduced it on Monday. It was referred to the House Health, Education & Welfare Committee.
The measure defines police dogs as dogs assisting a law-enforcement or military entity with such tasks as search and rescue, detecting accelerants in the aftermath of a fire, finding drugs and sweeping for bombs. Bennett said the bill does not give pets the right to be taken by ambulance to a veterinarian, even in an emergency.