PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 31 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release: In what the ACLU of Rhode Island calls an "outrageous and shameful" attack on one of its own students, the Barrington School Committee has filed a lawsuit in R.I. Superior Court against a middle school student who successfully challenged before the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) his three-day out-of-school suspension. In seeking to overturn RIDE's decision, the  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Nov. 1 -- The American Library Association issued the following news release: Today Macmillan Publishers begins to limit access to e-books through America's libraries by instituting an eight-week embargo on library e-book purchases. Despite robust public demand to reverse the policy, the publisher is moving ahead with its plan to limit sales to public libraries. Regardless the size of the library - from large library systems in Washington State and rural libraries in Rhode Is  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 31 -- The Conservation Law Foundation issued the following statement by Vice President and Director Amy Moses in response to the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission report regarding January's gas emergency on Aquidneck Island: "Customers should absolutely not be straddled with higher bills because of the mistakes of utilities.," "But the report's suggestion of reducing demand for gas simply doesn't go far enough. We need to get off dirty fracked gas and focu  more