Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport is a public international airport in Warwick,Rhode Island,United States,6 miles south of the state's capital and largest city of Providence. Opened in 1931,the airport was named for former Rhode Island governor and longtime senator Theodore Francis Green. Rebuilt in 1996,the renovated main terminal was named for former Rhode Island governor Bruce Sundlun. It is the first state-owned airport in the United States.
Lincoln Davenport Chafee is an American politician. He was mayor of Warwick,Rhode Island,from 1993 to 1999,a United States Senator from 1999 to 2007,and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015. He was a Democrat from 2013 to 2019;in June 2019,The Boston Globe reported that he became a Libertarian,having previously been a Republican until September 2007 and an independent and then a Democrat in the interim. He is the last non-Democrat to hold statewide and/or Congressional office in Rhode Island.
The Rhode Island School of Design is a private art and design school in Providence,Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf,who sought to increase the accessibility of design education to women. Today,RISD offers bachelor's and master's degree programs across 19 majors and enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 500 graduate students. The Rhode Island School of Design Museum—which houses the school's art and design collections—is one of the largest college art museums in the United States.
David Nicola Cicilline is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,he was the 36th mayor of Providence from 2003 to 2011,the first openly gay mayor of a U.S. state capital.
WLNE-TV is a television station licensed to New Bedford,Massachusetts,United States,serving as the ABC affiliate for the Providence,Rhode Island,area. The station is owned by Standard Media,and maintains studios in the Orms Building in downtown Providence;its transmitter is based in Rehoboth,Massachusetts.
Federal Hill is a neighborhood in Providence,Rhode Island. It lies immediately west of the city's Downtown,across Interstate 95. Since the late 19th century,Federal Hill has been an enclave of Providence's Italian American community;today the neighborhood is known as Providence's Little Italy and is noted for its abundance of Italian restaurants,markets,and cultural establishments.
Frank T. Caprio is an American banker,lawyer,and politician from Rhode Island. His twenty-year political career has included being elected as the 29th General Treasurer of Rhode Island from 2007 to 2011. He was the first political candidate in the United States to use on-demand television to reach voters and one of the first candidates to launch an Internet TV channel for use in a political campaign in 2006.
David A. Caprio is an American businessman,investor,lawyer,and politician who served as a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from District 34. He was first elected on December 21,1999. In 2010,Caprio was defeated in a September primary election.
Bishop Hendricken High School is a Catholic,all-male,college preparatory high school located in Warwick,Rhode Island,in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence.
The 2010 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 2,2010. It was preceded by the primary election on September 14,2010. Incumbent Republican governor Donald Carcieri was term-limited in 2010. The non-partisan Cook Political Report,The New York Times and CQ Politics rated the gubernatorial election as a toss-up.
Gina Marie Raimondo is an American businesswoman,lawyer,politician,and venture capitalist who has served since 2021 as the 40th United States secretary of commerce. A member of the Democratic Party,she served as the 75th governor of Rhode Island from 2015 to 2021,and was the first woman to serve in the role.
Florence Kerins Murray was a high-ranking officer in the Women's Army Corps,the first female state senator in Rhode Island,the first female judge in Rhode Island and the first female member of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Allan Wai-Ket Fung is an American attorney and politician who served as Mayor of Cranston,Rhode Island,from 2009 to 2021. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Rhode Island in the 2014 and 2018 elections as well as the Republican nominee for U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district in 2022.
Herbert Claiborne Pell IV is an American lawyer,military officer,and politician. He is a commander and judge advocate in the United States Coast Guard Reserve,and served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign Language Education in the United States Department of Education. He is the grandson of the late Senator Claiborne Pell. Pell ran for the 2014 Democratic Party nomination for Governor of Rhode Island in a competitive three-way race ultimately won by Rhode Island State Treasurer Gina Raimondo.
Seth Michael Magaziner is an American investment professional and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as the 31st general treasurer of Rhode Island from 2015 until 2023. Magaziner won the November 2022 election to succeed retiring representative James Langevin.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Rhode Island on November 4,2014. All of Rhode Island's executive officers went up for election as well as a United States Senate seat and both of Rhode Island's two seats in the United States House of Representatives. Primary elections were held on September 9,2014.
The COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. state of Rhode Island is part of an ongoing worldwide viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019,a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. As of August 18,2022,there has been 414,931 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island,89 of which are currently hospitalized,and 3,636 reported deaths. Rhode Island's COVID-19 case rate and death rate per capita are the highest and twentieth highest,respectively,of the fifty states since the start of the pandemic.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island were held on November 8,2022,to elect the two U.S. representatives from the state of Rhode Island,one from each of the state's 2 congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. It followed a primary election on September 13,2022.
Elections are held in Providence,Rhode Island to elect the city's mayor. Such elections are regularly scheduled to be held in United States midterm election years.
