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	What’s in a Name? The “State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” was founded on the principles of freedom. Now that name suggests slavery and it’s time to change it. By Ellen Liberman
	The Silly Season Sunbathers red as beets, manic lawn waterers, and all those drivers determined to park in tiny downtown Providence.... Why summer is no day at the beach. By Ellen Lieberman
	Food for Thought Are you smarter than a first-grader? A six-year-old shows the rest of us how to help the hungry. By Ellen Liberman
	A Not So Simple Plan Rhode Island ought to be the perfect incubator for testing universal health insurance. So what’s stopping us? By Ellen Liberman
	Watching Your Waste Once, Rhode Island led the country in recycling. Now we trail the pack, and it could cost us more than just big money. By Ellen Liberman
	Growing Pains Not enough cabs; no place to park; and street signs, where? As more visitors discover our piece of paradise, we can’t keep up with the deluge. By Ellen Liberman

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What’s in a Name?

The “State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” was founded on the principles of freedom. Now that name suggests slavery and it’s time to change it.

By Ellen Liberman

The Silly Season

Sunbathers red as beets, manic lawn waterers, and all those drivers determined to park in tiny downtown Providence.... Why summer is no day at the beach.

By Ellen Lieberman

Food for Thought

Are you smarter than a first-grader? A six-year-old shows the rest of us how to help the hungry.

By Ellen Liberman

A Not So Simple Plan

Rhode Island ought to be the perfect incubator for testing universal health insurance. So what’s stopping us?

By Ellen Liberman

Watching Your Waste

Once, Rhode Island led the country in recycling. Now we trail the pack, and it could cost us more than just big money.

By Ellen Liberman

Growing Pains

Not enough cabs; no place to park; and street signs, where? As more visitors discover our piece of paradise, we can’t keep up with the deluge.

By Ellen Liberman

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	The Advocate State child advocate Jametta Alston is willing to protect children in DCYF custody at all costs. Even if her bold decision to sue the state for neglect forces her to commit career suicide,... By Beth Schwartzapfel
	Soil Sisters Female farmers may be a scarce commodity, but these women are bucking the trend, raising crops and livestock and living a job they love. By Selma Moss-Ward
	Driven to Drink Barrington has become a hotbed of underage drinking—and driving. Kids are dying, parents are turning on one another, and the experts are baffled. Is it too late to save this bucolic little town... By Gretchen Voss
	Don't Touch that Dial There’s telenovela drama in this radio saga. Rhode Island’s public radio station was the neglected stepchild of WBUR before being cast off without warning. When the Boston station got a new... By Gretchen Voss