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AbstractNew law gives advantage to party committee designees but opens door to opponents, few of whom win in first election.

In 2018, Jaz Brisack was among the 32 Americans who won a Rhodes scholarship for study in Oxford, England, one of the most elite, prestigious, and career‐enhancing awards an American college senior can receive. Late in 2020, she became a barista at a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York. This was not as unusual a career choice as it may at first appear.

Rhode Island has a long history of constitutional governance. Beginning in 1636, Rhode Island's constitution has been shaped by revolution, nation-building, tumult, and further changes wrought by everything from neo-liberalism to gay rights. The result has been a living document reflecting conflicting and changing values, making the Rhode Island constitution an essential resource for understanding the cultural history of this state. In The Rhode Island State Constitution Patrick T. Conley and Robert J. Flanders provide an outstanding constitutional and historical account of the state's governi

An essay which chronicles how privateering activities came about in Rhode Island during the Revolution and the constructive influence in ending the fighting, while also aiming to convince the reader that privateering was a lawful act, not simply "licensed piracy".

An essay exploring the men who maintained the liberties of Rhode Island during the Revolution by forming the Committee of Correspondence in 1773. The appointments included Stephen Hopkins, Metcalfe Bowler, Moses Brown, John Cole, William Bradford, Henry Marchant and Henry Ward to form the committee in its entirety.

THE AUTHOR OUTLINES THE GREENHOUSE COMPACT, AN INDUSTRIAL POLICY PLAN FOR RHODE ISLAND, THAT INCLUDES A GRANT-NOTE PROGRAM, A NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, A BUSINESS GREENHOUSE, AND RESEARCH GREENHOUSES, WHICH WAS KILLED BY THE VOTERS OF RHODE ISLAND ON JUNE 12. THE AUTHOR BELIEVES THAT THIS DEFEAT SPELLS THE DEATH OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY AS A POLITICAL IDEA.

Work on the Rhode Island State House began in 1892, the design being awarded to McKim, Mead & White, the winners of a competition judged by The Board of State House Commissioners under the advice of A. D. F. Hamlin, Richard Morris Hunt, and Alpheus C. Morse. Prior to it's completion, Rhode Island used a rotation system in which the governor and legislature would move between different state houses, at one time including as many as five. By the later half of the 19th century, only the Old Providence State House and the Newport Colony House were used. This view, taken from the Francis and Gaspee Street perspective, clearly presents McKim, & Mead & Whites "American Renaissance" design, which incorporated Renaissance and Classical design elements in rejection of Victorian era designs, which McKim felt were gaudy and whose ornamentation he felt was idiosyncratic. ; https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/ri_architecture/1006/thumbnail.jpg

In the last few decades, there has been considerable debate over whether or not charter schools are beneficial to the American education system. Charter schools are given government funding, but they have independence from the established educational system. Charter school supporters argue that increased autonomy and innovation in teaching, as well as competition between schools, improves the quality of education. Opponents of charter schools argue that charter schools are not more effective than public schools. However, the research is mixed: some studies suggest charter schools perform better, some suggest they perform similarly, and some suggest that they perform worse than traditional public schools. There are many underlying factors surrounding charter schools that interfere with the research being done, such as variation in teaching methods, location, and selection of students. It is necessary to determine whether or not charter schools are effective in order to learn from the successes and failures of charter school approaches. In this paper, I examine the performance of 164 elementary and 60 middle schools in RI to see if, when controlling for relevant factors, charter schools improve student outcomes. In this sample, 19 were charter schools. All student data was collected from the RI Department of Education's Infoworks website, and included the percent of students meeting proficiency criteria on standardized tests, attendance rates, chronic absenteeism rates, and student stability and mobility. I also take into account school level, racial and ethnic diversity, percent of students eligible for free and reduced lunch, percent of students eligible for ESL (English as a second language) services, and percent of students eligible for Individualized Learning Programs. There were small (6-10 percentage point) differences in the percent proficient in charter schools versus non-charters. My data suggests that in Rhode Island, charter schools perform significantly better than public schools in 4th grade Math, Science, and ELA assessments, and they perform the same or slightly worse (but not significantly) in 8th grade. More research in this area can contribute to a better understanding of charter school performance in Rhode Island, and potentially, nationwide.

International audience ; The island of Rhodes was seized by the italian army during the italo-ottoman war of 1911-1912. This conquest is the consequence of a setting up on the minor Asia's coast. This island was to be used as change trade with the Sublime Porte against a withdrawal from Tripolitania and a break-down to the arab resistance in this province. The first italian governors of Rhode had a difficult task and had to deal with various tensions: with the Italian government in Rome, with the Ottoman Empire, with the Greek State and with the representatives of different communities on the island. ; La prise de Rhodes par l'armée italienne a lieu pendant la guerre italo-ottomane de 1911-1912. Cette conquête est la conséquence d'une stratégie de prise de position sur la côte d'Asie mineure. Cette île devait servir de monnaie d'échange avec la Sublime Porte contre un retrait de Tripolitaine et de Cyrénaïque et un arrêt du soutien à la résistance arabe dans ces provinces. Les premières administrations italiennes de Rhodes ont une tâche difficile face aux différents interlocuteurs : pouvoir gouvernemental à Rome, Empire ottoman, Etat grec, représentants des diverses communautés de l'île. Cette étude concerne la gestion du Général d'Ameglio. The island of Rhodes was seized by the italian army during the italo-ottoman war of 1911-1912. This conquest is the consequence of a setting up on the minor Asia's coast. This island was to be used as change trade with the Sublime Porte against a withdrawal from Tripolitania and a break-down to the arab resistance in this province. The first italian governors of Rhodes had a difficult task and had to deal with various tensions: with the Italian government in Rome (Giolitti), with the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul, with the Greek State and with the representatives of different communities on the island. Italy; Ottoman; Greece; urban; city; communal; municipal; 1911; 1912; colonisation; colonization; jewish community; Jews; Greek; Turk; orthodox