Jamie Lehane and Sandra Oxx
Bridge jumping is a relatively rare occurrence, but not in Newport County and not in the past couple of months. Three people lost their lives jumping off Newport County bridges and 27 lost their lives in the past nine years.
When it comes to suicide in the U.S., the most common means is by firearms, which accounts for about 55% of the suicide deaths, followed by suffocation, poisoning and jumping.
It may seem obvious to anyone who lives in Newport County as to why a person would contemplate jumping off a bridge. Bridges are everywhere. They are convenient and link our islands together. The paradox is that people around here don’t enjoy crossing bridges. They prefer to stay put, and yet they may consider jumping off the bridge, if distraught enough.
A proposed tax exemption for La Salle Academy in Providence was scaled back Tuesday before passing the Rhode Island Senate over the objections of some Democratic lawmakers.
La Salle sought the exemption after receiving a property-tax bill, the first in its 150-year history, for part of its 26-acre Mount Pleasant campus last year.
It was one of two private schools identified by Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza s administration last year as falling outside blanket exemptions in state law and without its own special exemption.
If the La Salle bill is signed into law, the only other private school known to be facing a tax bill would be Community Preparatory School in South Providence.
Policing, health care, minimum wage top RI Black and Latino Caucus agenda
Providence Journal (RI)
The Rhode Island Legislative Black and
Latino Caucus unveiled its 2021 agenda on Friday, aimed at tackling housing discrimination and boosting health care access, police accountability and economic opportunity.
Lawmakers priorities include advancing a bill sponsored by Sen.
Ana Quezada, D-Providence, to raise the minimum wage from
$11.50 to
75-cent increase by 2022.
Quezada pointed to the lack of employees returning to the service industry as evidence that wages are too low.
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$15 minimum wage I hear in the news every day that they don t find workers . because they don t pay enough, and people are making more money getting unemployment than going back to work. That proves that this bill, it was the right time to do it.
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