People & Profiles

Bud Craddock, administrator of the Rhode Island Department of Motor Vehicles, joined What’s Up Newp at 1 pm on Tuesday, October 13 to chat about a couple of important scheduling developments for registry customers – including the end of grace periods for license/registrations at the end of this month and the restarting Saturday office hours.

Keith Stokes, Vice President of the 1696 Heritage Group, will join us to discuss the recent effort to advance Black History for K-12 public schools and other efforts around state. The 1696 Heritage Group is a historical consulting firm dedicated to helping persons and institutions of color to increase their knowledge and access to the […]

Newport, RI – Joe Louis Walker, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee and four-time Blues Music Award winner who has a career that exceeds a half a century, joins us for a conversation at 10 am on Wednesday, June 24th. Walker, who recently released BLUES COMIN’ ON, has appeared on multiple Grammy winning albums. Tune […]

Middletown Town Councilor Henry ‘Rick’ Lombardi Jr. has announced his candidacy for Rhode Island House District 74 (Jamestown, Middletown). We’ll chat with Rick about his decision to run for District 74 and more.

WUN-ON-ONE: A conversation with Casby Harrison, Owner of Harrison Law Associates and former Deputy Legal Counsel to Governor Bruce Sundlun, will join us to chat about the protests, long standing issues, and more.

The headline reads “During the Covid-19 pandemic, nowhere is safe for homeless people.” That is as valid in San Francisco and London as it is in Rhode Island, where estimates range from 1,000 to 5,000 homeless. The variation depends upon who is measuring, from the very narrow definition by federal Housing and Urban Development, to counts by a variety of advocacy groups. […]

To many, the Newport Music Festival, the chamber music festival in the city’s mansions, is the stepchild of the city’s folk and jazz festivals. But it has been a major force for more than 50 years, and according to Suzanna Laramee, president, and chief executive officer, generates $2 million in revenue to the city each […]

“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education, culture of their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.” These words by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were never more appropriate for those individuals on the front lines like Heather Strout and her […]

You might call Paul Wayne the penultimate opening act. He’s been doing it for more than three decades, opening for the likes of Harry Belafonte, Chuck Berry and numerous stars of today and yesterday. He works in night clubs and at assisted living facilities, pounding out a living every day. But today the clubs are […]

The following story is by the Public Affairs Office at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport. When Tammy Ruggeri retired from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport in August 2019, after 32 years of service, she thought she would have more time for one of her hobbies, quilting. She never imagined, though, that […]