Tagged: gun control

Rhode Island lawmakers will consider legislation Wednesday aimed at increasing safety measures in public schools. The bills, now in the House and Senate Education Committees, would require school and law enforcement officials to work together to look for weaknesses in building security and craft new school safety plans.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse talks proposed gun control legislation.  Students ask adults to take the NECAP test.  These stories and more on the RIPR morning news podcast.

Plus,  Moderate Party founder Ken Block is this week's guest on the Political Roundtable.

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Brown University kicks off a lecture series on gun violence today with a talk from Carl Bogus, professor of law at Roger Williams University Law School. Bogus will discuss efforts to reduce crime and the effects guns and gun crime have on communities.

Higher education is bracing for possible cuts in research funding.    A representative of the NRA says RI does not need any more regulation to control gun violence.  These stories and more on the RIPR Morning News Podcast.  Plus...

The list is long of potential implications to RI if the so-called sequestration kicks in, from longer lines at the airport to job loss to less educational research.  Scott MacKay reviews what might be in our future.