Showing posts with label Census. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Census. Show all posts
Friday, October 10, 2025

Trump-GOP Hiding Federal Data So Nobody Will Know the Depth of the Destruction They Are Sowing

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"Disappearing data" Julia Conley  for Common Dreams In recent weeks, efforts by the Trump administration to conceal statistics...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Trump Is Attacking Our Ability to Find Out What Is Going On in Our Country

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If Trump is going to kill off data-collection or worse, cook the books, how can we make good decisions? Erika Frankel , Institute on Taxat...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

A new angle on an old CCA lie

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Platner pans progress By Will Collette Charlestown Planning Commissar Ruth Platner, leader of the Charlestown Citizens Alliance (CCA), h...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

How real is McKee's promise to raise Rhode Islanders' incomes by $20,000

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McKee set a bold goal to raise per capita income but didn't give details By Nancy Lavin, Rhode Island Current Photo by Steve Ahlquist I...
Monday, July 3, 2023

3 myths about immigration in America

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From its founding to today, immigrants have built America April Nisan Ilkmen ,  Adler University A family of Syrian refugees arrive at t...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

What the new Kids Count annual report says about Charlestown

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Under the CCA, kids DIDN'T count By Will Collette Kids Count Rhode Island is a non-profit organization largely known for its exhaustive ...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Myth Busted: Falling Birth Rate Not Due to Less Desire To Have Children

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The anxieties young people have about the future may be causing them to delay starting a family. Ohio State University Eaten by wild puppies...
Monday, January 2, 2023

They are not our enemy

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

What to do if your vote is challenged on Election Day

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If you vote in person, BE PREPARED to defend your right to vote Karen Figueroa-Clewett ,  USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

White nationalism is on the rise and attracting violent young white men

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It's f ueled by virtually unrestricted social media access Sophie Bjork-James ,  Vanderbilt University White nationalist Dylann Roof...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Major changes made to Charlestown's electoral map

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You might find you now live in a different precinct By Will Collette After every US Census, electoral maps change to reflect changes in popu...
Sunday, November 7, 2021

CCA bends truth on how fast Charlestown is growing

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Charlestown needs more affordable housing And fewer over-priced town land purchases By John Hacunda, Charlestown CCA's Ruth Platner ...
Friday, August 13, 2021

Town officials complain about influx of building permits, mostly renovations, but none for affordable housing

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Surge in Building Permits has Charlestown Officials Scrambling By CYNTHIA DRUMMOND/ecoRI News contributor New beach home construction in...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Is it possible to fairly re-district?

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Redistricting will always end in gerrymanders By  Samuel G. Howard  in UpRiseRI “...Would it not in that case be simpler for the governm...
Sunday, May 2, 2021

What We Can Learn From The (Inaccurate) Census

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Rhode Island keeps both its House seats By Terry H. Schwadron, DCReport Opinion Editor Rhode Island's census efforts paid off, savin...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Rhode Island to sue Trump over census memo

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Constitution requires ALL people to be counted By Steve Ahlquist  for UpRiseRI In response to United States President  Donald T...