Two years after Pawtucket city officials closed Morley Park with plans to convert it to a parking lot, the National Park Service is being asked to weigh in on its future. An environmental lawyer says it’s just one more example of why Rhode Island needs an environmental justice law. Also, what exactly is ranked-choice voting, and how does it work? We’ll walk you through it. And on this week’s Artscape, we hear some “witch pop” in a studio session with Providence singer-songwriter Olivia Dolphin. That and more on this week’s show.
Links:
- CLF Urges Protection of Morley Field
- Ian Donnis’ Rhode Island politics roundup for June 28, 2024
- Ocean State Ranked Choice Voting
- Studio Session: Olivia Dolphin’s piano-driven ‘witch-pop’
- Buffalo Nichols with The Glass Hours at Askew (June 28)
- “Another Dimension” at the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art (opening June 28)
- All the Oohs Without the Booms: DEM’s “Quiet Fireworks” Viewing at Beavertail (July 4)
Guests:
- Darrèll Brown, Vice President, Rhode Island chapter of the Conservation Law Foundation
- Ian Donnis, The Public’s Radio political reporter
- Scott Shuler, Ocean State Ranked Choice Voting
- Olivia Dolphin, Providence-based singer-songwriter
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