Chuck Ross on January 12, 2019 A massive winter storm, stretching from the Great Plains to the East Coast, is dumping snow and causing hundreds of traffic accidents as thousands shelter under winter storm warnings. Winter Storm Gia hit Missouri hard Friday evening, stranding motorists overnight and causing five deaths from traffic accidents in the icy conditions. Roughly 500 traffic…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Dries Van Thielen If you work within a first-response team, it is your priority to reach your destination as soon as possible, right? Apparently, that is not the case in Jamestown, RI, were reaching potential victims hits the second spot on their priority list. Indeed, priority #1 is –…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett A Rhode Island town temporarily halted the building of a new solar power project for the next three months over safety and land use concerns. Coventry and Green, Rhode Island’s city council, voted 4 to 1 for a three-month moratorium on solar power shortly after blocking construction…
By Connor D. Wolf Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo announced her support for a bill which would raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour at a labor union conference Monday. “What we have to do is support business, but also support our workers with job training programs and with reasonable wages,” Raimondo, a Democrat, declared…