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Edward Fitzpatrick
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Boston Globe reporter covering my home state, Rhode Island. Host of Rhode Island Report podcast. NEFAC board member. Former Providence Journal reporter/columnist. Syracuse University graduate. Runner. Big fan of Benny's.
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 1h
Melissa Carden will be leaving as executive director of the RI Coalition Against Gun Violence to become the executive director of the Roger Williams Park Conservancy
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Steph Machado @stephmachado.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: The Trump administration recently cut funding to Rhode Island for special education teacher training, part of the ongoing effort to root out DEI

"The word ‘diversity’ has been weaponized in such a way that it’s become a political grenade."

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Trump administration cuts funding to train special education teachers in Rhode Island - The Boston Globe
The federal grant was helping educators who are teaching students with disabilities to read.
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Globe Rhode Island @globeri.bsky.social · 23h
Commentary: We should invest in learning and understanding about gender identity and not simply ignore an entire community and pretend they don’t exist, writes Dr. Philip Chan, a chief medical officer of the R.I. Public Health Institute.
Follow the science about gender identity, not the campaign against people who are transgender - The Boston Globe
We should invest in learning and understanding these complicated issues and not simply ignore an entire community and pretend they don’t exist, writes Dr. Philip A. Chan.
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drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 20h
Proud from my hometown. Spent a lot of time in that museum-definitely go if you visit #RhodeIsland
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · Nov 26
“There’s no US history without Indigenous people’s history,” Tomaquag Museum executive director Lorén Spears said on the #RIReport podcast.
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For Indigenous people, Thanksgiving represents a day of mourning - The Boston Globe
“There’s no US history without Indigenous people’s history,” says Tomaquag Museum executive director Lorén Spears.
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Alexa Gagosz @alexagagosz.bsky.social · 20h
For decades, Brown University's Peter Howitt has quietly shaped the way the world understands progress.

Today, he received the ultimate recognition for his work: He was among three awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. @bostonglobe.com
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Retired Brown University professor among three who win Nobel Prize for reshaping economic thought on progress - The Boston Globe
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized Howitt’s and Aghion’s research into forces that drive long-term economic growth, and how new technologies can simultaneously fuel progress and upend ex...
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Globe Rhode Island @globeri.bsky.social · 21h
Innovators Q&A: @UniversityofRI oceanography professor Rebecca Robinson is studying the origin of a pool of freshened water found off the coast of Nantucket, beneath the salty Atlantic Ocean and bedrock of the ancient New England Shelf.
Could a hidden freshwater pool off Nantucket reveal an ancient aquifer? A URI professor is trying to find out. - The Boston Globe
Oceanography professor Rebecca Robinson traveled to three different sites to collect 250 samples from different depths off the coast.
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 1d
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Patriots avoid a trap to make another statement, and other observations from a sloppy win in New Orleans - The Boston Globe
There is plenty to clean up from Sunday’s performance on both sides of the ball, but there is nothing fluky about securing a solid win on the road.
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 2d
@whitehouse.senate.gov among those portrayed on SNL Cold Open
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Pam Bondi Hearing Cold Open - SNL
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 2d
Good luck tomorrow Jon!
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Christopher Gavin @chrisgavin.bsky.social · 3d
New: A federal judge in RI blocked HHS & HUD from imposing restrictions targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion, and transgender people on federal grants aiding youth, the homeless, and survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.
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R.I. judge blocks anti-DEI, transgender restrictions on HHS, HUD grants for domestic violence, homeless nonprofits - The Boston Globe
US District Court Judge Melissa R. DuBose granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed in July by a coalition of nonprofit groups from 14 states.
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Amanda Milkovits @amandamilkovits.bsky.social · 4d
Rhode Island goat who defied police & delighted public comes to tragic end. #Goatwatch community mourns. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/m...
Sad ending for defiant goat running loose in Rhode Island - The Boston Globe
After nearly a month, the goat who garnered national attention was captured. “The freedom and fame she achieved are of a level about which most goats would never dare dream,” says one #Goatwatch membe...
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 4d
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María Corina Machado of Venezuela awarded the Nobel Peace Prize - The Boston Globe
The former opposition presidential candidate in Venezuela was lauded for being a “key, unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided."
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 4d
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Trump fires Black officials from an overwhelmingly white administration - The Boston Globe
While there are no statistics on firings by race, an examination of the people Trump is appointing to fill those and other jobs shows a stark trend.
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Alexa Gagosz @alexagagosz.bsky.social · 4d
NEW: ‘It’s extortion’: Brown faculty resist White House bid to reshape higher education

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‘It’s extortion’: Brown faculty resist White House bid to reshape higher education - The Boston Globe
If Brown signed the compact, one professor said, “We’d become an instrument of the state.”
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Christopher Gavin @chrisgavin.bsky.social · 4d
Six teachers resigned on Tuesday from a Catholic school in Warwick, R.I., the Diocese of Providence confirmed on Thursday.
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Six teachers ‘voluntarily’ resign from Catholic school in Warwick, R.I., diocese says - The Boston Globe
The Diocese of Providence did not offer specific reasons for the resignations, but said, “All diocesan employees are also expected to uphold and follow our policies and procedures.”
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 4d
Former Red Sox left fielder Mike Greenwell dies at 62 after cancer diagnosis
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Former Red Sox left fielder Mike Greenwell dies at 62 after cancer diagnosis - The Boston Globe
Greenwell, who spent his entire 12-year major league career with the Red Sox, announced in August that he had been diagnosed with medullary thyroid cancer.
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 5d
Column by @danmcgowan.bsky.social -- Providence is finally putting kids before bricks
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Providence is finally putting kids before bricks - The Boston Globe
City and state leaders want to replace Gilbert Stuart Middle School with a state-of-the-art pre-K-8 school, but they’re facing predictable opposition.
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Globe Rhode Island @globeri.bsky.social · 5d
Commentary Leanne Barrett and Lisa Hildebrand: Rhode Island lags behind other New England states in child care funding, write members of the RIght from the Start coalition.
In Rhode Island, child care infrastructure is in urgent need of investment - The Boston Globe
Rhode Island lags behind other New England states in child care funding, write members of the RIght from the Start coalition.
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 5d
🎙️Podcast: Can President Trump legally send troops into US cities? @rwulaw.bsky.social professors Jared A. Goldstein and Peter S. Margulies debate the legality of the president sending the National Guard into L.A., Chicago, and Portland, Oregon.
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Is it legal for Trump to send troops into US cities? - The Boston Globe
RWU Law professors Jared A. Goldstein and Peter S. Margulies debate the legality of the president sending the National Guard into L.A., Chicago, and Portland, Ore.
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Christopher Gavin @chrisgavin.bsky.social · 5d
NEW from me: At R.I.’s ‘Conjuring’ house, a new fear for the paranormal community: Losing it entirely
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At R.I.’s ‘Conjuring’ house, a new fear for the paranormal community: Losing it entirely - The Boston Globe
How Andrea Perron, whose family was supposedly haunted there in the 1970s, and Jason Hawes, of SyFy’s “Ghost Hunters,” are trying to save the historic property.
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Alexa Gagosz @alexagagosz.bsky.social · 6d
NEW: Ieva Jusionyte, a Brown University professor, said she plans to use the award to fund research for her new book, which will focus on the practice of extraditing organized crime leaders from Mexico and other Latin American countries to the US.

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Harvard mathematician among New Englanders awarded $800,000, no-strings-attached MacArthur ‘genius’ grants - The Boston Globe
Professor Lauren Williams was joined by a cultural anthropologist in Providence and a cartographer and basketmaker from Maine as the New Englanders named to this year's class of MacArthur fellows.
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 6d
@whitehouse.senate.gov takes on Attorney General Pam Bondi -- Rhode Map by @danmcgowan.bsky.social
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse takes on Attorney General Pam Bondi - The Boston Globe
The R.I. senator asked pointed questions about border czar Tom Homan during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday. Bondi punched back instead of answering.
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 6d
By @shurufu.bsky.social -- Federal Reserve Bank of Boston president talks about tariffs, jobs, and why inflation is ‘still elevated’
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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston president talks about tariffs, jobs, and why inflation is ‘still elevated’ - The Boston Globe
Without committing to another rate cut, Susan Collins says she expects inflation to moderate once tariffs work their way through the economy.
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 6d
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Conan O’Brien on how his Boston Irish roots influenced his dramatic debut in ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ - The Boston Globe
The Brookline native, along with star Rose Byrne and writer-director Mary Bronstein, open up about the new A24 film.
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 6d
Commentary by Bill Ibelle -- Renewable energy is the solution to soaring electricity rates
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Renewable energy is the solution to soaring electricity rates - The Boston Globe
If you’re sick of having household finances thrown into turmoil every winter, tell our elected officials you want to see meaningful action to expand clean energy, a Rhode Island climate advocate write...
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