When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amaz….

The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack ….

Trump voters are very loyal to Trump, and they don't want to come after him too soon. But, if something comes out that changes that dynamic, if the s….

Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s..

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our m….

I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back economically or feel disaffected and a….

The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program..

Donald Trump disproved the notion that there is a direct dollar-for-dollar correlation between how much money you had in your traditional war chest a….

I, for one, despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a ye….

Worldwide, our oceans are warming, rising, and becoming dangerously acidic as a result of carbon pollution and climate change - endangering much that….

Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode….

Once people know that you can spend the money and that you're willing to spend the money and that you're set up to spend the money in politics, then ….

Sometimes money isn't the determinant. But it sure as hell makes a huge difference. Nobody is saying "Well, thank God we don't need to raise money an….

Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrof….

When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of doll….

The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy..

In the long term, a robust health IT network will support personalized treatment that adheres to proven best practices, and adapts to your personal h….

The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the cos….

I don't think you earn the right to a message until you've earned it by having a real fight, really being willing to stand up for what you believe in..

Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children ….

We must now become not just takers from the ocean, but caretakers of it..