By Janine L. Weisman | Editor-in-Chief
Good Wednesday morning!
Happy Earth Day!
High tide in Narragansett is at 12:33 p.m. Low tide is at 6:22 a.m. and 5:57 p.m. Sunset is at 7:33 p.m.
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The Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General and Family Service of Rhode Island host the annual Victims Grove Ceremony at noon at Memorial Park on South Main Street in Providence. The annual wreath laying ceremony will honor victims of the Brown University and Lynch Arena shootings.
The Quonset Development Corporation holds a 6 p.m. public information session at the Quonset “O” Club in North Kingstown on a proposed 208-megawatt battery storage facility on approximately 10 acres of land off Callahan Road at the Quonset Business Park.
The Rhode Island Department of Administration building in Providence. (Photo by Alexander Castro/Rhode Island Current)
By Christopher Shea
Rhode Island’s Department of Administration mailed 50 corrected W-2s on Tax Day after payroll errors led to excess 403(b) retirement contributions and potential IRS penalties for state college employees.
An 2024 architectural rendering of the state building that now has name: South County Academy, a 16-bed new residential facility for adolescent girls in Exeter expected to open this fall. (Courtesy of DBVW Architects)
By Alexander Castro
Twenty months after a ceremonial groundbreaking, Rhode Island’s child welfare agency has selected Family Service of Rhode Island as the operator for a 16-bed residential behavioral treatment center for teen girls on the site of the former Ladd School in Exeter. The first-year contract for what will be known as South County Academy is valued at a little over $9.8 million.
Rhode Island U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose, a Biden appointee, blocked the Trump administration from enforcing new immigration-related restrictions on grants for organizations serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. (Photo by Alexander Castro/Rhode Island Current)
By Christopher Shea
The Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence Domestic notched another victory last week in the lawsuit it is leading to challenge the Trump administration’s efforts to withhold grants from organizations that assist undocumented immigrants or defy the federal government’s agenda on DEI and “gender ideology.”
Ioannis N. Miaoulis became the 11th president of Roger Williams University in August 2019. (Photo courtesy of Roger Williams University)
By Rhode Island Current staff
Roger Williams University President Ioannis N. "Yannis" Miaoulis will retire at the end of the current academic year after seven years leading the school, the university announced Tuesday. The school’s Board of Trustees appointed Brian Williams, chief of staff, as interim president, effective June 1.
Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s nominee for chair of the Federal Reserve, testifies during his Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 21, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
By Ashley Murray, D.C. Bureau
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, vowed Tuesday the central bank would remain “strictly independent” if he’s confirmed to the top spot, even as the president has broadcast his demand for the new Fed chair to lower interest rates.
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Rhode Island health officials report year’s first confirmed measles case | Alexander Castro
Congress struggles with questions about ethics investigations after 3 members resign | Jennifer Shutt, D.C. Bureau
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