Housing affordability is a crisis in Rhode Island. According to The Herald, the median salary in Rhode Island is 41% less than what is needed to afford rent. These high prices are primarily driven by a supply shortage: The National Low Income Housing Coalition estimates that the state lacks 23,222 rental ...
Brown has a brain drain problem. A survey of the class of 2025 found that 44% of students marched from the Van Wickle gates into the loving arms of the finance, tech and consulting industries. One need not view these industries as villains to recognize that this number is too high. Brown fashions itself ...
My first experience with Providence politics was at a City Hall hearing in Sept. 2023, where I joined dozens of my classmates to push Brown to pay a fairer share of taxes to the city. Mayor Brett Smiley’s administration had just finalized a new Payment In Lieu of Taxes, or PILOT, agreement with Brown ...
Dissenting Opinions: When The Herald’s editorial page board disagrees, members have the opportunity to publish a dissent to explain why they voted against the editorial. Editorials — and dissents, if any — are written by members of The Herald’s editorial page board, which is separate from those ...
I once had a class where we read and discussed a book written by the professor. On the day of the discussion, he chose to leave the room because he knew that even though we all had good intentions, we wouldn’t feel comfortable criticizing his work to his face, largely because he was in a position ...
Shouldn’t you be studying for your midterms right now?
It’s been almost five years since Rhode Island passed the ambitious Act on Climate, a seminal piece of legislation setting mandatory incremental goals to bring the state’s carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. But today, the prospect of reaching those goals looks bleak. The state’s public transit ...
Every American who cares about the rule of law ought to support abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This means defunding, dismantling, investigating and prosecuting ICE from top to bottom. The agency is so morally corroded that there is no appropriate remedy but to abolish it. The agency ...
Eighty years ago Wednesday, Lutheran minister Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis for his dissident activities, which included helping Jews escape Germany and joining an attempt to assassinate Hitler. In a country whose church and people largely stood complicit in the actions of Hitler’s ...
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