Frank Prosnitz

The child population of Newport County is decreasing more than double the rate of the state of Rhode Island, while elementary and high school students are generally outperforming the rest of the state on standard testing for reading and math. These findings were included in Kids Count’s recently released community profiles. Kids Count, which advocates […]

Beginning today (Monday) through Wednesday afternoon, candidates in Rhode Island will officially declare for local, statewide and federal offices. Declarations come on the heels of a Democratic state convention that failed to offer endorsements in the governor’s, lieutenant governor’s, and attorney general races. Republicans meet later in the week. The declarations are the first step […]

Newport Public Schools Superintendent Colleen Burns Jermain joined What’sUpNewp owner and publisher Ryan Belmore and editor Frank Prosnitz on Wednesday afternoon for her final monthly conversation — capping a series that has run for several years, now ended by her June 30 retirement after more than 12 years leading the district. The conversation was equal […]

What is America? We are white, black, brown, red, yellow … we are the rainbow. We are Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, evangelicals, atheist, agnostic.

Candidates for political offices, from U.S. Senate to School Committee, filed their nomination papers yesterday (Friday), significantly reducing the number of people running for top offices, but also setting up primary elections for some top offices, including U.S. Senate and Governor.

A January 6 (2021) participant in the “march” on the U.S. Capitol, who moved to Rhode Island too late to qualify to vote in the September 9 primary election in which he’s a candidate, is among those running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Rhode Island. Vincent Gilbert Mellor, a Republican who participated in […]

What started as a very crowded field for the governor’s race has narrowed considerably, but a spirited primary election looms for both parties, with a well-known independent entering the fray in the general election. Meanwhile, there have also been some updates (as of noon, July 14) to the total number of signatures collected by candidates […]

It is no surprise that small businesses are extremely important when it comes to job growth, and a recently released Federal Reserve Bank of Boston report not only confirms that but says that small business job growth in New England is outpacing the rest of the country.

This will be a buy primary election season for Rhode Island, with Democratic primaries for three of the five general officer positions – governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general. There is also a Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, and Republican primary for U.S. House of Representatives in the second district.

Newport Councilman Xaykham Rexford Khamsyvoravong (Xay) is among five Democrats who are squaring off in September's primary election for Lieutenant Governor. The winner of that primary will face Republican John Loughlin in November's general election.