Alexander Castro
Writer at Rhode Island Current
Reporter @RIcurrent , covering technology, health and education. Former art critic, curator and adjunct prof. /// [email protected]
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2 months ago |
asianamericans.einnews.com | Alexander Castro
Surrounded by shelves packed with books, journals and ledgers detailing centuries of state government history, high school students gathered in the Rhode Island State Library Wednesday to talk about the history they think is missing in their classrooms. They came to support a bill by Providence Democratic Rep. David Morales that would require public high schools statewide to offer a full-year ethnic studies course starting in the 2026-2027 school year.
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Feb 17, 2025 |
rhodeislandcurrent.com | Alexander Castro
A landlord advocacy group is criticizing the rollout of the Rhode Island Department of Health’s new database allowing the public to search rental properties for lead inspection reports, taking issue with the software used and little effort made to prepare property owners.
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Feb 12, 2025 |
rhodeislandcurrent.com | Alexander Castro
Nearly two months after state officials disclosed a colossal breach of Rhode Island’s public benefits portal and health insurance marketplace, a state rep is trying to strengthen laws surrounding data leaks of people’s private information. “We need to do something for data breaches. It’s just getting ridiculous,” Rep. Robert Phillips, a Woonsocket Democrat, said Tuesday during a meeting of the Rhode Island House Committee on Innovation, Internet and Technology.
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Feb 12, 2025 |
rhodeislandcurrent.com | Alexander Castro
Timmons Roberts of Providence has a Ph.D. But someone pretending to be a federal marshal over the phone still ended up scamming him out of $2,200 last year. The scammer convinced Roberts to withdraw money from his bank, then feed the cash into a Coinstar machine. The supermarket fixture was once used to easily count spare change. More recently, the units have begun to double as cryptocurrency kiosks.
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Feb 11, 2025 |
rhodeislandcurrent.com | Alexander Castro
Mia Tretta cared more about her Spanish grade and who was going to ask her to the school dance than advocacy as a 15-year-old growing up in California. That changed on Nov. 14, 2019. “An older student I had never met before entered my school with a gun in his backpack,” the Brown University sophomore told dozens of people gathered Tuesday afternoon in the State Room of the Rhode Island State House. That was the day Tretta was airlifted to a hospital where doctors removed a bullet from her stomach.
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