PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 5 (TNSgov) -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news: In spite of a U.S. Supreme Court session which, by issuing a spate of shattering decisions - including the overturning of Roe v. Wade - indicated that the erosion of fundamental civil liberties by that body is no longer a hypothetical fear, 2022 was also marked by a number of critical home state victories that affirmed many important constitutional rights for residents of t  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (TNSpp) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, condemned the distribution of white supremacist materials in Rhode Island. Police in North Kingstown, R.I., are investigating after residents found a flyer from a neo-Nazi group. SEE: North Kingstown police investigating white supremacist flyer in neighborhood (https://  more

MIDLAND, Michigan, Jan. 5 (TNSgov) -- The Mackinac Center for Public Policy issued the following news release on Jan. 4, 2023: A school district in Rhode Island denied tenure to a teacher after he opted out of paying union dues, according to a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island by the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation. The lawsuit, filed in conjunction with attorney Joseph Larisa, Jr., claims that the school district violated the First and Fourteen  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (TNSrep) -- The R Street Institute issued a policy study (No. 265) in October 2022 entitled "The Policy Landscape of Overdose Prevention Centers in the United States." The policy study was written by Chelsea Boyd. Here are excerpts: * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary ... 1 Introduction ... 3 International OPCs and Supporting Evidence ... 5 * Australia ... 5 * Canada ... 6 Cost-Benefit Analyses for Opening OPCs in the United States ... 8 Current Policy Landsca  more

HAILEY, Idaho, Jan. 6 (TNSgov) -- The Western Watersheds Project issued the following news release on Jan. 5, 2023: A judge has blocked a decision that would have authorized the grazing of over 16,000 domestic sheep on the Twin Buttes allotment, a vast swath of public lands nearly half the size of Rhode Island. Under the now vacated decision, sheep would have been turned out to graze throughout the winter on top of what the BLM's own team of sage grouse scientists identified as one of the most   more