WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 -- Common Cause issued the following news release: Today, Common Cause, Verified Voting, and The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law released a report on Rhode Island's pilot program to identify the most effective methods to implement the risk-limiting audits (RLA) required by the state for the 2020 election. The three organizations were part of a working group that helped the state design and run the pilots earlier this year. Risk-limiting audits use statistical sampling  more

SARASOTA, Florida, Aug. 27 -- The American Accounting Association will host the 2019 Accounting Behavior and Organizations Research Conference at the Renaissance Downtown Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island, Oct. 3-5: Keynote Speaker: What Makes an Accounting Experiment Successful? Speaker: Bob Libby, Cornell University * * * Agenda: Things you should be Thinking About (But Probably Aren't) Speakers: Willie Choi, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jessen Hobson, University of Illinois at Urbana  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 4 -- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine issued the following news release: The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit with more than 12,000 doctor members, is behind the three mobile billboards circulating Brown University's campus today during the university's convocation. Quoting a recent piece from the editorial board at The Boston Globe, the billboards feature a doctor giving a thumbs down and state: "Brown kills animals to trai  more