By Janine L. Weisman | Editor-in-Chief
Good Wednesday morning!
A gale warning from the National Weather Service remains in effect through 8 a.m. Thursday for Rhode Island coastal waters.
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High tide in Tiverton is at 4:42 p.m. Low tide is at 10:30 a.m. and 10:55 p.m. Sunrise is at 7:04 a.m. Sunset is at 5:54 p.m.
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The Rhode Island Turnpike & Bridge Authority Board of Directors meets at 8:30 a.m.
U.S. Rep. Gabe Amo visits North Providence High School at 9 a.m. to meet students and teachers in the school’s Marine Trades Program
The Council on Postsecondary Education has a daylong fall retreat starting at 8:30 a.m. at Rhode Island College.
The Providence School Board meets at 6 p.m. The board will consider a motion to remove Motion and vote to remove Ty’Relle Stephens as its president.
Rhode Island Democratic gubernatorial nominee Helena Buonanno Foulkes, right, is shown at her victory celebration in Providence on the night of the Sept. 9 primary, with state Democratic Party Chair Liz Beretta-Perik, left. Foulkes called for Perik to step down after Perik’s husband was indicted on 12 felony charges in Ohio. (Rhode Island Democratic Party Instagram post)
By Nancy Lavin
Rhode Island Democratic Party Chair Liz Beretta-Perik resigned Tuesday in the wake of her husband Michael Perik’s indictment by an Ohio grand jury on felony fraud and racketeering charges, a day after she said the indictment had “nothing to do” with her or her role as party leader. Public calls for Beretta-Perik’s resignation began Monday night, beginning with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Helena Buonanno Foulkes, who cited the implications for the Nov. 3 election just two weeks away.
Resident physicians and fellows represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR/SEIU) rally outside Rhode Island Hospital in Providence on June 5, 2026, calling for their first union contract. The physicians ratified a three-year agreement in October. (Photo by arewefreelance/courtesy of CIR/SEIU)
By Alexander Castro
The Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR/SEIU) announced Tuesday that almost 700 resident physicians and fellows ratified their first contract with Rhode Island Hospital. The contract includes pay increases, better retirement benefits and other improvements for the early career doctors working at Rhode Island’s largest hospital in Providence, also the flagship facility of Brown University Health.
Burkhart Ridge in Howell Township, Mich., is the kind of manufactured home community that some experts say can be expanded with a new federal law that allows such homes to be built without a chassis. Some 30 states may need to update their laws, though, and mobile home park operators say the industry still faces major zoning and financial speed bumps. (Photo by Jon King/Michigan Advance)
By Robbie Sequeira | Stateline
For decades, manufactured home builders have been working to shed the old image of boxy trailer homes reserved for the outskirts of cities and suburbia. Now, a small change in federal regulations could open the door for architecture welcomed in more neighborhoods.
Indie rockers Boygenius performs at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway on Sept. 26, 2023. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)
COMMENTARY
By John Breyault | CommonWealth Beacon
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey's proposal to put a price cap on websites that resell concert tickets might sound like it benefits everyone. In reality, the policy strengthens the very monopoly that has made ticket buying so expensive.
ICYMI
McKee extends pause deadline on Flock cameras indefinitely | Christopher Shea
Magaziner leads Mellor in new CD2 poll, but with a narrower gap among independents | Alexander Castro
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