Newport Daily News
NEWPORT April is National Donate Life month, and on Thursday members of the organ donation community and Rhode Island lawmakers gathered on the steps of City Hall to tell their stories and encourage Rhode Island residents to register as organ donors.
In the United States, there are currently 108,000 citizens waiting to receive organ transplants, and 6,000 of those individuals reside in New England, and each year there are over 1 million tissue and eye transplants performed, according to a proclamation read by Newport Mayor Jeanne-Marie Napolitano.
The state of Rhode Island has the goal of registering 50% of the driving public to be organ donors. To become an organ donor in Rhode Island one can sign up through the Department of motor vehicles or the following website: https://www.donatelife.net/register/
The New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission held its second-ever meeting on Thursday, the first time members of the public had their chance to make comments on the state s existing medical marijuana and, eventually, recreational legal weed industries.
Nearly 400 people were logged into the meeting, held via Zoom, and another 100 people sent written comments to the CRC, chairwoman Dianna Houneou said.
Comments from the public were varied: Hightstown Councilwoman Cristina Fowler asked the commission to provide more detailed guidance on the consequences if towns decide to opt out of allowing cannabis businesses to operate.
And a person who identified himself as Cameron Pitt called on the CRC to revoke a cap on the potency of medical marijuana concentrates.
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Jim Gillis
Talk about your dubious anniversaries.
Five years ago, Rhode Island launched its Cooler and Warmer tourism campaign. The title could have been from a movie filmed here decades ago Dumb and Dumber.
The campaign became a laughing stock. Nobody could figure out exactly what Cooler and Warmer meant, sort of a TV weather forecast from a meteorologist on a bender.
If you think that was amusing, it became more absurd a short time later.
The campaign featured footage of a young guy skateboarding. Turns out he was skating in Iceland. The backdrop resembled The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. And it sparked the nickname Rhode Iceland.
On patrol with police as they hunt criminal who s been terrorising pensioners They think they re above the law and they can do what they want
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A dedicated team is hunting the conman (Image: Joel Goodman)
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