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League Day at the State House on April 3 - Seth Magaziner

RI General Treasurer Seth Magaziner will be the featured speaker at League Day at the State House on April 3, 2018. His focus will be the new school upgrade plan coming out of Governor Raimondo's Rhode Island School Building Task Force that Magaziner co-chaired.

Agenda for Tuesday April 3rd at the Governor's Reception Room
3 P.M. Social Hour - Meet and Greet - Outside the Governor's Reception Room
4 P.M. League Program
5 P.M. RI General Treasurer Seth Magaziner speaks to the League

Please bring your friends and invite your General Assembly representatives to attend.

RI leaders meet to discuss concerns with census trial run

By: Dan McGowan 
Updated: Mar 28, 2018 02:04 PM EDT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - With the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census stoking fear that many immigrants will ignore the survey altogether, a group of Rhode Island leaders met privately in Central Falls Wednesday to discuss how the question may impact the country’s only trial run happening in Providence County. Full Story

Clean Transportation Listening Sessions

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Office of Energy Resources, and Department of Transportation – on behalf of the Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council (EC4) – will be hosting two public listening sessions to hear ideas on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, increase the resilience of transportation-related infrastructure, and design solutions with environmental justice communities in mind.

Tuesday, April 3, 2018
2:00 – 4:00 PM
Newport City Hall
43 Broadway, Newport RI

Wednesday, April 4, 2018
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Providence Career and Technical Academy
41 Fricker Street, Providence, RI

Advance registration is encouraged at: doa.climatechangeri@doa.ri.gov
Please provide your name, date of the session that you will attend, and any organizational affiliation.
Public comment may also be submitted to the email address above through April 13th.
For more information: http://climatechange.ri.gov/state-actions/listening-sessions.php

Threats to Elections: Should We Worry?

Monday, March 26 Threats to Elections: Should We Worry?

What are the threats to our voting process? Cam technology make our elections secure?

Speakers:
Robert Rapoza - Executive Director, RI State Board of Elections
Joseph Cammarano - Associate Professor of Political Science, Providence College
John Savage - An Wang Professor of Computer Science, Brown University

Place: Lippitt House Museum, 199 Hope St, Providence
Time: 6:30 - 7: 00 pm, reception, 7:00 - 8:00 speakers

Parking available in the Wheeler School lot across the street.
For wheelchair-access, call Carrie Taylor, 401- 453-0688, ctaylor@preserveri.org
For more information, 401-351-2269, or emhead603@hotmail.com

TOM WARD - Let’s get TogetherRI for civil conversations 3/22-4/14

The Valley Breeze
3/6/2018

So, do you wonder, in this era of people becoming more and more disconnected from each other as they stare at and interact with their beloved phones, is it time yet to push back? As people spend less and less time looking at the face of another person and having a conversation, have we had enough of our addiction?...

The Rhode Island Foundation thinks it might be, and so is putting a bit of money, and much of its energy and credibility, behind “20 neighborly get-togethers” around the state, chats where we all can get to enjoy a free family-style meal, then put down our smartphones and speak to one another – fact to face – in a round table discussion. They’re calling it “TogetherRI.”

What will be the topics?
“We don’t know what we will learn,” says Foundation President and CEO Neil D. Steinberg , in a recent visit with me. “We don’t know what will come out of it.”

Dates & Times 
TogetherRI evenings of food (free) and conversation
All gatherings will be catered by Emery’s Catering. Registration is suggested, but not required. Please register online at www.togetherri.org if possible.

I know a Guy: Ethics in RI

Monday, March 19, 2018  -
Time: 6:30 - 7: 00 pm, reception, 7:00 - 8:00 speakers

Lippitt House Museum
199 Hope St
Providence, RI 02906

I know a Guy: Ethics in RI.
Do we have a permissive attitude towards corruption? Can politicians self-regulate?

Speakers:
Jason Gramitt - Education Coordinator, RI Ethics Commission
Jim Hummel - Executive Director & Senior Investigator, The Hummel Report
John Dietrich - Professor of Political Science, Bryant University

Parking available in the Wheeler School lot across the street.
For wheelchair-access, call Carrie Taylor, 401- 453-0688 , ctaylor@preserveri.org