Tiny Rhode Island News Today

Whenever New Mexico decides to pay legislators a salary – which I believe we eventually will – we do not have to invent our rules from scratch.

Roughly half our readers call the United States home. To the rest, it’s a deeply familiar presence from pop culture. Yet even a land as extensively

Consider this: Some states started prepping for the 2020 Census in 2018. They developed data-driven strategies to reach hard-to-count populations. They plotted out the massive logistical challenge of hiring thousands of temporary workers. One particularly determined effort: Tiny Rhode Island, which was apparently prepared to fight to the death to hold on to both of its House seats. Obviously, those states were in a far better position when coronavirus struck, with the information they needed to...

As Rhode Island wilts under the surge of coronavirus, Connecticut anxiously watches from across the border Michael Hamad, Hartford Courant © Maddie Meyer/Getty Images North America/TNS In this file photo, pedestrians walk through Fort Adams State Park on May 09, 2020 in Newport, Rhode Island. HARTFORD, Conn. — Tiny Rhode Island tops the list of U.S. states in new coronavirus cases per capita over the past seven days — nearly twice the rate seen across the border in Connec...