PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 30 -- The Campaign Legal Center issued the following news release on July 29: The state of Rhode Island has agreed to eliminate witness/notary requirements for vote by mail throughout the 2020 elections due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A court issued the decree on July 28. Campaign Legal Center, the American Civil Liberties Union and law firm Fried Frank filed a federal lawsuit on July 23 challenging the requirements. The case was brought on behalf of two voting ri  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 1 -- Operation HOPE issued the following news release on July 31: Governor Gina M. Raimondo announced an investment of $45 million for a workforce development partnership that will create thousands of job opportunities for Rhode Islanders displaced by COVID-19 and help break down traditional barriers to hiring. The initiative - Back to Work RI - will use CARES Act funding to accelerate Rhode Island's economic comeback, pairing a unifying to job training with criti  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- The League of Women Voters issued the following news release on July 28: The state of Rhode Island has agreed to eliminate witness/notary requirements for vote by mail throughout the 2020 elections due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A court signed off on the agreement tonight. The case was brought on behalf of two voting rights advocacy groups -- the League of Women Voters of Rhode Island and Common Cause Rhode Island -- and Rhode Islanders with significant medical vulnerabil  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Power to Decide issued the following news release: Data released by Power to Decide estimate that 45,290 Rhode Island women of reproductive age (13-44) in need of publicly funded contraception live in a county impacted by the Title X Family Planning Program "domestic gag rule." The domestic gag rule requires health providers receiving Title X funds to withhold information from patients about abortion services and care. In addition, health centers are required to cease pr  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 27 -- Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features applied mathematics, published research articles, including the following topics, in its September 2020 edition: * Entropy-approachability for transitive Markov shifts over infinite alphabet * Finite groups of rank two which do not involve Qd(p) * Galois extensions and a conjecture of Ogg * Measures with specified support and arbitrary Assouad dimensions * Pri  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 27 -- Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features applied mathematics, published research articles, including the following topics, in its August 2020 edition: * Anticanonical codes from del Pezzo surfaces with Picard rank one * Flow method for the dual Orlicz-Minkowski problem * Hausdorff-Young-type inequalities for vector-valued Dirichlet series * Isometric study of Wasserstein spaces - the real line * Loc  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 1 -- Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a campaign of Everytown for Gun Safety, issued the following news on July 30: The Rhode Island chapter of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both a part of Everytown for Gun Safety's grassroots network, applauded Governor Gina Raimondo, who was joined by Sen. Coyne and Rep Serpa, for signing into law S2004/H7102, legislation to prohibit the manufacture and possession of undetectable, untraceable firearm  more