The Trump administration has threatened to cut back or even eliminate the Department of Education, which is responsible for enforcing civil rights protections, overseeing student loans, and funding things like special education. What would those cuts mean for Rhode Island? Also, scams involving cryptocurrency ATMs are on the rise. We learn about a new law that would regulate crypto kiosks in Rhode Island – and we hear from a Brown professor who explains how he was recently scammed out of more than $2000. Plus, the WaterFire Arts Center is hosting an exhibit of over one hundred posters spanning 70 years and a dozen countries throughout Latin America. That and more on this week’s show.
Links:
- ‘It’s heartbreaking’: Rhode Island children’s advocate laments the potential loss of federal funding for schools
- TGIF: Ian Donnis’ Rhode Island politics roundup for Feb. 21, 2025
- New bill aims to regulate crypto ATMs in Rhode Island
- Posters display creativity, culture and resistance in ‘Graphic Voices of Latin America’
- “Someone Will Remember Us” at Trinity Rep (through Feb. 23)
- PACHA: ancestral evolutions, Murals by Ccopacatty (through Feb. 26)
- “Between Riverside and Crazy” at the Gamm Theatre (through March 9)
Guests:
- Paige Parks, Executive Director, Rhode Island KidsCount
- Ian Donnis, The Public’s Radio political reporter
- Catherine Taylor, State Director, AARP Rhode Island
- Dr. Timmons Roberts, Professor of Environmental Sciences and Sociology, Brown University
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