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Amanda Milkovits
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Journalist in ⚓️ Rhode Island for
@bostonglobe Member of @FiveFreedoms
@IRE_NICAR
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NEW: Everyone's been asking: what's going into the old Eastside Marketplace in Providence?

Whole Foods just signed a 20-year lease for the space, according to public records.

Here's what we know: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/11/m...
Whole Foods leases vacant Eastside Marketplace in Providence - The Boston Globe
The 33,800-square foot grocery store has been vacant since Stop & Shop closed 32 stores last year
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November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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A deal in D.C. gets a hard ‘no’ from Rhode Island. “I respect my colleagues on both sides,” Senator @reed.senate.gov said on X, “but the American people don’t deserve a preventable increase in health care costs.” -- Rhode Map by @danmcgowan.bsky.social
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A deal in D.C. gets a hard ‘no’ from Rhode Island - The Boston Globe
“I respect my colleagues on both sides,” Senator Jack Reed said on X, “but the American people don’t deserve a preventable increase in health care costs.”
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November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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As the federal government fiddles, neighbors feed neighbors in Rhode Island.
A little free library in Warwick, Rhode Island is turned into a little free food pantry
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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‘Food is love’: With SNAP payments in limbo, New Englanders are stepping up to help one another.
Hopeful story by @chrisgavin.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/07/m...
‘Food is love’: With SNAP payments in limbo, New Englanders are stepping up to help one another - The Boston Globe
In Rhode Island, a federal employee who has worked for nearly a month without a paycheck has set up a front-yard pantry to help out. “One day I’ll be in need, and the community will do the same,” she says
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November 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Appreciate the Bristol Police with the most thorough investigation of a deer head left on someone’s doorstep.

(Not everything is a scene from The Godfather)
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Video shows ICE detaining man having apparent seizure, holding toddler in car www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/07/m...
Video shows immigration authorities detaining man having apparent seizure, holding toddler in car - The Boston Globe
A video of immigration authorities apparently trying to detain a man who is holding a toddler, while bystanders are yelling for his safety, has gone viral.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Trump administration seeks to block court order for full SNAP payments for November
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Trump administration seeks to block court order for full SNAP payments for November - The Boston Globe
In court documents filed Friday, government lawyers argued that the food stamps crisis was caused by the government shutdown and can only be solved by congressional action.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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PROVIDENCE — A federal judge in Rhode Island on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to provide full November funding for the national food stamp funding by Friday, reports my colleague @fitzprov.bsky.social.
Trump administration ordered to provide full funding for November SNAP payments by Friday - The Boston Globe
A federal judge in R.I. told the US Department of Agriculture to tap other federal funds to provide full funding rather than the partial funding that the agency had chosen to provide.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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🎙️Podcast: @reed.senate.gov warns of Trump politicizing the US military. Reed, ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, urges Republicans not to remain silent while “while the president transforms the military into his personal political tool”
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Senator Reed warns of Trump politicizing the US military - The Boston Globe
Reed, ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, urges Republicans not to remain silent while “while the president transforms the military into his personal political tool.”
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November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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At Brown University, Condoleezza Rice says Putin is ‘the only person that matters’ in decision to end war in Ukraine

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At Brown University, Condoleezza Rice says Putin is ‘the only person that matters’ in decision to end war in Ukraine - The Boston Globe
The former Secretary of State also discussed the AI race with China and the Iraq War. “The lives lost there will never be brought back and for that, I still have regret.”
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November 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Mamdani’s victory inspires ‘hope’ among New England Muslims, reports @bostonglobe.com’s Omar Mohammed www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/05/m...
Mamdani’s victory inspires ‘hope’ among New England Muslims - The Boston Globe
The first Muslim elected Mayor in New York City could galvanize a new generation of leaders in the region and across the country.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Armed ICE officers chase teacher into preschool in Chicago
The arrest appears to be among the first in which in which immigration officers entered school grounds as part of an enforcement operation during Trump’s second administration.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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NEW: Years ago, a retired nurse told @peterfneronha.bsky.social she lost her home after her hospital’s pension collapsed. Now Rhode Island’s AG is fighting to save two more hospitals — and maybe the state’s health system. My latest in this saga:

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With Prospect Medical, Rhode Island patients face a hospital crisis years in the making - The Boston Globe
The bankrupt for-profit hospital owner has threatened to close its two R.I. hospitals, leading the state to seek alternate buyers. “Have we reached the state of any port in the storm? Yeah, we have,” ...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Smithfield, R.I., superintendent on leave pending review of handling of antisemitic hazing report www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/05/m...
Smithfield, R.I., superintendent on leave pending review of handling of antisemitic hazing report - The Boston Globe
The announcement comes two days after the Smithfield School Committee voted to have a law firm review how Superintendent Dawn Bartz handled the matter.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Truly a great song
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Johnny Nash hits #1 today in 1972 with “I Can See Clearly Now” — sometimes considered the first reggae song to do so. (A young Bob Marley was an assistant producer and session player on the album.)

It held the top spot for four weeks.
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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JUST IN: Prime Healthcare execs have *confirmed* to me that state officials had reached out to Prime about these two hospitals. "We are in the early stages of reviewing the situation," their spox said. Read more:

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November 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Trump says he won’t make any SNAP payments until shutdown ends. Tuesday's statement comes as plaintiffs have filed a motion in federal court in RI seeking full SNAP payments for November.
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Trump states he won’t make any SNAP payments until shutdown ends - The Boston Globe
Tuesday’s statement from the president came as plaintiffs on the SNAP lawsuit filed a motion asking a R.I. judge to force the Trump administration provide full funding for the national food stamp prog...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Awful. Man sexually assaults his girlfriend, then kills her mother and mother's boyfriend, then himself.
All with a stolen gun.
November 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Ocean State Job Lot announced that all food in its 17 Rhode Island stores is discounted by 20 percent until the federal SNAP program is fully reinstated. That includes coffee, tea, peanut butter, jam, cooking oils, spices, and hundreds of Bob’s Red Mill products.
November 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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On Monday, more than 40 cats and dogs were removed from an apartment building tied to a 24-year-old woman whose “suspicious death” is under investigation.

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More than 40 cats and dogs removed from Central Falls, R.I., apartment building tied to woman in ‘suspicious death’ case - The Boston Globe
Erica Bader, 24, resided at the building along with others charged in connection to her death, court filings show.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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SCOOP: Another health system may be eyeing two cash-strapped hospitals in Rhode Island as Prospect Medical Holdings, their bankrupt parent company based in California, recently threatened to close the two hospitals down. See which one:
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New suitor emerges for bankrupt Rhode Island hospitals facing closure - The Boston Globe
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha notes the state is aware that “another operator recently commenced diligence” on the two hospitals.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Smithfield, R.I., school board votes for law firm to review handling of report of antisemitic hazing on football team. "Smithfield, the nation is watching," said Wendy Joering of the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center. “Do the right thing.”
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Smithfield, R.I., school board votes for law firm to review handling of report of antisemitic hazing on football team - The Boston Globe
" Smithfield, the nation is watching," said Wendy Joering of the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center. “Do the right thing.”
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November 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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SCOOP: Days after Prospect Medical Holdings signaled plans to shut down its two safety-net hospitals in Rhode Island, the CEO of the nonprofit trying to buy them says it’s not walking away from the deal.

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Centurion vows to keep Rhode Island’s safety-net hospitals open as Prospect Medical moves to shut them down - The Boston Globe
While Prospect has “characterized themselves as victims of circumstances, the record tells a different story,” wrote Centurion’s attorneys in court documents.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Trump administration will tap contingency funds to make partial SNAP payments. But the US Department of Agriculture has refused to dip into other funds to make full food stamp payments for November
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Trump administration will tap contingency funds to make partial SNAP payments - The Boston Globe
But the US Department of Agriculture has refused to dip into other funds to make full food stamp payments for November.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Federal judge dismisses lawsuit challenging deportation of RI kidney doctor. Judge says he lacks authority to act in the case of Dr. Rasha Alawieh, who was deported after border agents at Logan airport found photos of Hezbollah ‘fighters and martyrs’ on her phone
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Federal judge dismisses lawsuit challenging deportation of R.I. kidney doctor - The Boston Globe
Judge says he lacks authority to act in the case of Dr. Rasha Alawieh, who was deported after border agents at Logan found photos of Hezbollah ‘fighters and martyrs’ on her phone.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM