Rhode Island PBS Weekly

By: RI PBS Weekly
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  • Rhode Island PBS Weekly is a Newsmagazine anchored in journalism that searches for truth and examines today's most important regional and local issues. Viewers are introduced to individuals, ideas and places in Rhode Island and beyond that they won't see anywhere else.

    © © 2023 Rhode Island PBS Weekly
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Episodes
  • January 12, 2025 - Funding the Arts / Weekly Insight / Warehousing RI's Children
    Jan 13 2025

    On this episode, Michelle San Miguel has an in-depth report on the efforts to secure funding for the Arts in Rhode Island. Then, on this episode of Weekly Insight, Michelle San Miguel and WPRI 12’s politics editor Ted Nesi discuss the incoming Administration and what impact that might have on New England, and they unpack what’s in store for Rhode Islander’s as the legislative session gets underway. Finally, a second look and update on contributor Steph Machado’s story on the Federal Government’s charge that state officials were warehousing children for years at a psychiatric hospital.

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    26 mins
  • December 15, 2024 - Crossroads RI CEO / Trinity Rep Costumes / Local Toymaker
    Dec 16 2024

    On this episode, contributor Steph Machado has a wide- ranging interview with Michelle Wilcox, who this year rose to President and CEO of the State's largest provider of housing for the homeless -- Crossroads Rhode Island. Then, Rhode Islanders have long flocked to Trinity Reparatory Company for their annual performance of a Christmas Carol. But this year – there’s a twist. Producer Isabella Jibilian takes us behind the scenes to see how costume designer

    Amanda Downing Carney is giving Scrooge and his ghosts a new look. Finally, we revisit producer Isabella Jibilian’s story on toy designer Khipra Nichols – one of the designers behind such iconic toys as Mr. Potato Head and My Little Pony.

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    24 mins
  • December 8, 2024 - Central Falls Schools / Typewriters in Pawtucket / Weekly Insight
    Dec 9 2024

    On this episode, Michelle San Miguel has an in-depth report on the city of Central Falls efforts to take back their schools, which the state has been running for 33 years. Then, Pamela Watts reports on the resurgence of vintage typewriters at a repair shop in Pawtucket. Finally, on this episode of Weekly Insight, Michelle San Miguel and WPRI 12’s politics editor Ted Nesi discuss the latest on the Washington Bridge ... nearly one year after the westbound side was shut down, and why Providence has to pay a lot more for education.

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    24 mins

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