After the blizzard last week, hundreds of people around #PVD offered their snow shoveling skills to help elderly, sick and disabled neighbors.
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After the blizzard last week, hundreds of people around #PVD offered their snow shoveling skills to help elderly, sick and disabled neighbors.
And, lastly, here's a collection of photos, videos, and words that @thepvdeye.bsky.social readers shared from all across town. Lots of good stuff in here.
Second, an insightful essay about the politics of snow removal from the great @samghoward.riliberator.com. It's his @thepvdeye.bsky.social debut!
(Photo by me.)
This week, in the @thepvdeye.bsky.social's Readers Voices section (which I edit), we've got some great dispatches about PVD's recent, historic blizzard.
First, some lovely words and *dazzling* photos from David Lawlor.
The Providence Eye is pleased to be participating in RI Civic Learning Coalition's Civic Learning Week 2026!
Join us on March 12 at 6pm for a kickoff event overviewing the tools and coverage we will offer to help voters feel prepared this election season.
Register here: ricivics.org/2026clw
Folks, I've got some rare, precious *good* news from the media biz.
@thepvdeye.bsky.social -- the nonprofit news startup where I serve as a board member and (volunteer) opinion editor -- hired its first full-time reporter!
We're so excited to have City News Reporter Eric Halvarson on board.
For the last five years, Chef Jenny Han has served her culinary creations across Providence.
Now, citing high financial costs and an increasing uncertainty around U.S. immigration policy, Han said it became too risky to continue investing in her Providence restaurant.
A Facebook post from me that reads: Providence people: we're collecting first-person accounts of the Big Storm for next week's The Providence Eye's Readers Voices section. So if you have a story, a photo, a rant, a memory you'd like to share -- no matter how long or short -- send it to philip@pvdeye.org. Please feel free to spread the word! ❄️🌨️☃️ Thank you.
Providence people!
If you have a story you'd like to tell, or thoughts to share, or a rant to get off your chest, or a great photo to highlight about the Big Storm, send them my way!
We'd love to publish it in next week's @thepvdeye.bsky.social Readers Voices section.
philip@pvdeye.org
Comic by Jennifer Becker
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It’s going to be a big year for elections in Providence.
Not only is the Mayoral race going to make headlines, but every City Council seat is up for election.
In an editor's note at the beginning of this excellent op-ed, I invite folks from around PVD to submit their own perspectives, thoughts, and arguments about the city's housing crisis.
I'd love to hear from you!
My poem "Ars Poetica: Moonlight" has been reprinted at @thepvdeye.bsky.social with thanks to Tina Cane . It was originally published at @northamerreview.bsky.social
pvdeye.org/ars-poetica-...
New this morning from @mattmfm.bsky.social in the @thepvdeye.bsky.social opinion section: "As the governor searches for a new DOT director, lawmakers should act this session to revisit and repeal the 2023 change that made the RIDOT director the chair of RIPTA’s governing board."
Rosa Parks, who famously resisted segregation on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, was born on February 4. So this time of year has come to be associated with celebrating “Transit Equity.”
Throughout Rhode Island, schools send an estimated five million pounds of food to the landfill each year — nearly 28,000 pounds a day, including more than 4,000 pounds of unopened, edible food.
Just edited an op-ed for an upcoming edition of @thepvdeye.bsky.social. So here's a PSA that we have a vibrant opinion section at the Eye which I edit. And if you're in Providence, and have something to say about life in the city, we'd love to publish you!
More detail:
After federal immigration agents shot and killed multiple protesters in Minneapolis, immigrant rights activists in Rhode Island are doubling down on efforts to defend their neighbors through protest and policy change.
We wish it weren’t necessary to say that the federal government’s arrest of journalists for reporting on a public event violates the First Amendment’s protection for freedom of the press.
According to organizers, “in its first 24 days of operation at full capacity, Operation NOD has provided 1,088 bed nights of shelter to individuals in need.”
The fourteen stories collected in "Can I Have a Hug First?" — the second full-length work of fiction by Providence writer Mary Paula Hunter — have an enjoyably frantic energy.
Charming and often very funny, Hunter’s stories poke fun at the competing demands of everyday life.
Led by City Council President Rachel Miller, a new ordinance would limit annual rent increases at four percent. However, debate over rent control continues, with a new report commissioned by the Providence Foundation, a nonprofit led by some of Providence’s largest businesses and property owners.
Here in RI, @ecorinews.bsky.social @thepvdeye.bsky.social @steveahlquist.bsky.social to name a few
In lieu of these institutions not paying property tax, how is the value they bring to the surrounding #PVD community quantified? In the last two years, each of the four private colleges have tried to do that via a report on their Community Contributions.
My photos and thoughts about anti-ICE protests in @thepvdeye.bsky.social today pvdeye.org/photo-essay-...
This week in the Readers Voices section of @thepvdeye.bsky.social: a photo essay from last week's anti-ICE protest at Providence City Hall.
"Folding myself into that crowd of hundreds, I felt a little safer and a lot stronger," writer/photographer Rebecca Atwood writes.
Cartoon by Hannah Dean published on December 17, 2025
From the Readers' Voices archive, a Providence parent raises concerns about the rise of charter schools as alternatives to public schools.
