Rhode Island’s minimum wage would rise from $11.50 an hour today to $15 an hour by Jan. 1, 2025, under legislation approved by the House on Thursday…
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Today, Clean Water Action is pleased to name Priscilla De La Cruz, Erika Niedowski, Senator Dawn Euer, RI House Majority Leader Chris Blazejewski, and Representative Lauren Carson as their 2021 Environmental Champions…
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“We already making steps,” said state Rep. Chris Blazejewski. “We hit the goal in 2020, we’re on our way to hitting the goal in 2030 and we need to have a long-term plan to hit the net zero by 2050.”
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Republicans and some Democrats objected to giving “faceless bureaucrats” rather than elected officials power over the climate change plan, which makes the state’s greenhouse gas reduction goals mandatory…
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Today via Zoom conference, elected leaders, advocates, and families came together to launch the 2021 RIght Start Agenda, a package of legislation and state budget investments…
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RI House Majority Leader Chris Blazejewski joins Political Roundtable to discuss the storming of the US Capitol and other subjects, including how RI lawmakers are responding to the pandemic…
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Meet Christopher Blazejewski, the next Rhode Island House majority leader. He is now the highest-ranked Progressive Democrat in the increasingly progressive R.I. House of Representatives, with an “F” rating from the NRA. He has a star-studded resumé: Harvard College, magna cum laude. Harvard Law…
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House lawmakers have passed legislation that would send mail ballot applications to every Rhode Island voter ahead of the September primaries and November election. The bill, according to…
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Rhode Island’s governor has ceremoniously signed bills allowing domestic violence protective orders to protect more children and limiting noncompetition agreements…
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A review by The Public’s Radio shows that fewer than half of the school-age children of elected officials from Providence attend traditional public schools…
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