by Shauneen Miranda, Rhode Island Current October 13, 2026 WASHINGTON — As partisan tensions rise in advance of the fast-approaching midterm elections, students will test their knowledge Wednesday in a field that’s long enjoyed bipartisan support: civics.Fifty-two middle school students hailing from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and American Samoa, will compete at the annual […]
Janine L. Weisman, Rhode Island Current
Rhode Island Current Editor-in-Chief Janine L. Weisman served as a reporter and editor during her 25-year career in the newsroom of The Newport Daily News. She is an adjunct journalism faculty member at Roger Williams University.
Rhode Island Current is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.
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AG’s cold case unit cracks 1985 Newport murder case
by Janine L. Weisman and Christopher Shea, Rhode Island Current October 6, 2026 DNA evidence collected by a special investigative unit within the Rhode Island Office of Attorney General has led to an arrest in the 1985 murder of a 22-year-old Jamestown woman in Newport.It’s a case with special meaning for Attorney General Peter Neronha, […]
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Democratic challengers Foulkes and Khamsyvoravong widen cash leads over incumbents in Q2
by Rhode Island Current staff, Rhode Island Current August 3, 2026 With less than a month before early voting begins for Rhode Island state and local primaries, candidates are pounding the pavement and packing in the public events in the hopes of gaining voters’ support — and potentially, donations. Second-quarter campaign finance reports were due to […]
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Rhode Island’s congressional delegation asks to forgo pay during shutdown
All four members of Rhode Island’s congressional delegation have asked to have their congressional pay withheld for the duration of the federal government shutdown in a show of solidarity with federal workers.Democratic U.S. Sens. Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and U.S. Reps. Seth Magaziner and Gabe Amo all announced Wednesday afternoon that they intend to […]
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Pentagon fires NATO Military Committee representative, who previously led U.S. Naval War College
by Janine L. Weisman, Rhode Island CurrentApril 7, 2025 U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the U.S. representative to NATO’s Military Committee, was fired over the weekend, the Associated Press reported Monday. Chatfield served as president of the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, from 2019 to 2023 and was the first woman […]
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The number of R.I. communities where a household earning under $100K can afford a home is zero
by Janine L. Weisman, Rhode Island CurrentOctober 18, 2024 And then there were none. Two years ago, households earning under $100,000 a year could afford to buy a home in 14 of Rhode Island’s 39 municipalities. Last year, the number dropped to just one: Central Falls. But as the release of HousingWorks RI’s annual Housing […]
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‘The Bells’ has been a trespassing magnet for years. Why is it still here?
by Janine L. Weisman, Rhode Island CurrentJune 1, 2023 You don’t actually have to scale the chain link fence and venture through prickly bushes to get inside the dilapidated stable and carriage house at Brenton Point State Park in Newport. Just go to YouTube. Online you’ll find several videos showing the graffiti-covered walls and scattered […]