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Are Rhode Islanders becoming desensitized to gun violence?
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Are Rhode Islanders becoming desensitized to gun violence?
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2 Gun Safety Bills Become Law In Rhode Island
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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: One outcome we know from this Election Day - a name change for Rhode Island. It will no longer be known as, quote, the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. A ballot measure removes Providence Plantations.
AILSA CHANG, HOST: That s right. A longtime proponent of the change, state Senator Harold Metts, says 10 years ago Rhode Islanders voted to keep the phrase because.
HAROLD METTS: People didn t understand at the time how hurtful the word plantation are to people of African American descent.
KELLY: Professor Linford Fisher of Brown University says the phrase goes back to the state s earliest days.
On the Democratic side, the Progressive Political Cooperative whose policy platform includes calling for a tax hike on individuals making more than $467,700 each year (the top 1%) and increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour as Massachusetts and Connecticut have already done notched some big upsets.
Senate Finance Chair William Conley was soundly defeated by Cynthia Mendes in the District 18 Democratic primary in East Providence and Pawtucket, after Conley represented Marshall Development in their plan to turn the former Metacomet Golf Club into mixed-use development which faced stiff opposition from neighbors.
In Providence, Progressive Tiara Mack unseated Senator Harold Metts in District 6 a seat he had held since 2004.